US Appeals Court Takes Aim at Big Tech Liability Shield August 29, 2024 By Olivia Carville A US appeals court has struck down a long-standing argument from social media platforms: that a federal law grants them...
TikTok Sued After 10-Year-Old Dies in ‘Blackout Challenge’ May 13, 2022 By Olivia Carville TikTok Inc. was blamed in a lawsuit for the death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in an online...
Short-Term Rental Firms Move to Tighten Safety for Travelers June 30, 2021 By Olivia Carville Expedia Group Inc.’s short-term rental business Vrbo has banned hosts who use its platform from leaving house keys in public...
Short-Term Rental Sites Combat Party Houses, Complaints as COVID Shuts Nightclubs October 14, 2020 By Olivia Carville and Jacqueline Davalos When the coronavirus pandemic shut down bars and concert halls in March, a new phenomenon was born: the vacation-rental nightclub....
IBM Calls For Rules to Curb Bias in Artificial Intelligence January 22, 2020 By Ben Brody and Olivia Carville IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data...
Airbnb Stresses Safety, Accountability in Governance Changes January 21, 2020 By Olivia Carville Airbnb Inc. is laying the groundwork for a public market debut later this year, announcing a new corporate governance strategy...
Rebranded Crime App Aims for ‘People-Powered Public Safety Net’ June 14, 2019 By Olivia Carville One afternoon in late October 2017, hundreds of students from the elite Avenues private school in Manhattan were loaded onto...
Project Owl Wi-Fi Network for Natural Disaster Connections Wins IBM-Backed Contest May 9, 2019 By Olivia Carville From a cramped living room in Brooklyn, New York, a handful of young computer nerds has developed a new way...
Whew! Human Beats IBM’s AI Machine in Debate February 13, 2019 By Olivia Carville and Jeremy Kahn International Business Machines Corp. fell short in its latest attempt to prove machines can triumph over man. But it came...
As Deaths, Injuries Pile Up, So Do Claims Against Electric Scooter Firms October 31, 2018 By Olivia Carville A lawsuit targeting electric scooter-sharing companies seizes on the dangers of zipping around town on two wheels and brings gory...