The first over the counter birth control pill will be available in the US soon
A birth control pill in the US that was approved for use without a prescription will be available in stores in the coming weeks. Perrigo Co’s Opill is the first over-the-counter birth control pill that was approved for use without a prescription. Perrigo said it started shipping Opill to retailers on Thursday, with the product expected to be available in the coming weeks.
The MacBook Air is getting an upgrade
Apple has announced an upgrade option for its 13-inch MacBook Air and 15-inch MacBook Air that will allow customers to show two external displays while their laptops are not on. Both devices have the ability to show two external displays while the laptops are not on and up to 500 nits of brightness. The 13-inch MacBook Air will be available at a lower price.
Apple was fined for the first time in the EU
The European Union Commission said Apple has banned music streaming app developers from “fully telling iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services” available outside the app. It also banned app providers from sharing instructions on how to subscribe to such offers. Apple has been fined 30 crore for the violations, the largest single-day fine in EU antitrust history.
The rent-a-printer business is owned by HP
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched a subscription plan that lets customers rent out its printers for up to two years for $60 per month. It will charge users up to $270 plus taxes, of which $60 would be charged for every printer rented and the length of the subscription. Customers will also have the option to return the rental printer within 10 days.
Relief for Palestinians in Gaza was a last resort
Israel on Thursday said that the collapse in the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza is due to the UN’s inefficiency. It said that there was a pallet that got blown across the border into Israel, while most of the others landed in northern Gaza. On Thursday, Jordan dropped seven tons of supplies over northern Gaza, the first aid shipment to the area in about a month.
There will be an epidemic of deaths in Gaza for the next 6 months
The death toll in Gaza has risen to over 31,000, the local health ministry reported on Thursday. Over 20,000 civilians were killed by Israel during the conflict that started on October 7, it added. “This situation is the direct result of string of unconscionable decisions taken by Israeli authorities while waging this war,” Doctors Without Borders said in a statement after the killings.
The legal case against OpenAI is so bad that it is hilarious
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against AI startup OpenAI, which was founded in 2015, accuses the firm of violating its founding principles. The lawsuit states that OpenAI President Greg Brockman breached the company’s founding principles by abandoning the principles over the years. The lawsuit further says that Brockman had approached Musk in 2015 out of shared concerns over the risks of AI.
Musk sued OpenAI because it left its mission to benefit humanity
Elon Musk’s AI company OpenAI has been “converted” into a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, a lawsuit claimed. “OpenAI is not just developing but is refining an AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for thebenefit of humanity,” the filing said. “On information and belief, GPT-4 is an AGI algorithm,” it added.
Voters send a message to Biden on Gaza
The US State Department said that President Joe Biden’s recent call for a cease-fire in the Israel-friendly Golan Heights was in line with US policy. Biden had said in an interview that Israel’s Golan Heights is “a strategic asset” for America. Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryo’s are children under the wrongful death law.
Ford is first in line with other electric vehicles now that the Charging Network is open
Ford has said that its customers can access the “vast majority” of Tesla’s charging network using an adapter. The old V-2 Superchargers and V3 stalls won’t be available to Ford owners. “We’re supply constrained as we move forward. Demand will exceed supply, but we’ll try to accommodate that on a first-come, first-served basis,” Ford’s US President Derrick Williams said.