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May 31, 2023 – In an exclusive sit-down interview with WebMD’s John Whyte, MD, FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, MD, shares how artificial intelligence could transform the future of medicine, what the FDA can and cannot do about drug shortages and misinformation, and why it’s an exciting time at the agency. “Let’s talk about what …
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This article originally appeared on 03.23.20 Palm Beach Post/YouTubeThey say a crisis brings out the best and the worst in people. It also reveals the best and the worst in our leaders. A city commission meeting in Lake Worth Beach, Florida has gone viral after Commissioner Omari Hardy took his fellow city officials to task …
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News published a report after accessing leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings that contained 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees showing that the company’s engineers in Beijing had accessed data of American TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022. This leaked audio significantly corroborated previous reporting …
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr urged Apple and Google to remove the popular app TikTok from their app stores over concerns regarding data collection. In an open letter on Tuesday, Carr referred to TikTok as a wolf in “sheep’s clothing” that “harvests swaths of sensitive data” while addressing Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim …
Getty Image The weirdest story in baseball this season played out over the weekend when Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson got into it prior to a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants because of some long-simmering beef between the two in their fantasy football league. Pham approached Pederson before a game …
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said the FCC has no ability to block the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk, according to a statement posted to Twitter. In the tweet, Carr called a release from the Open Market Institute that asked the FCC, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Justice …
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling out Apple over the company’s censorship in China, according to a letter he posted to Twitter. Carr—in a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook—is specifically upset over Apple blocking the Voice of America app in China on the Apple App Store, calling the censoring “deeply troubling.” Carr, in …
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Financial scammers are impersonating a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner and defrauding people, according to the FTC. “You’re minding your business and the phone rings,” the FTC said in a consumer alert. “If you don’t screen and ignore it, you answer—and the caller says he’s Commissioner Noah Phillips from the FTC. (He’s not.) He gives …
Brendan Carr even sent letters to Apple and Google in June 2022, requesting that the companies remove TikTok from their digital stores. As mentioned by Today, the FCC commissioner is worried China can and will access users’ phone numbers, passwords, and locations via the video app. In June 2022, Brendan Carr tweeted, “TikTok is not …
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