Juul Survives a Blow From the FDA—for Now

Is it possible to buy a Juul e-cig currently? It depends on when the week starts.

The FDA denied marketing authorization for the company, which first started selling its products in 2015. The FDA denied the product because it failed to provide enough toxicology data to demonstrate the products were safe. The FDA pointed to the company's proprietary e-liquidpods as a concern.

However, Juul fought back and won. The FDA ban was called arbitrary and capricious by Juul in a court filing. The FDA order was put on hold by the federal appeals court.

The battle between regulators and Juul has been going on for years. The FDA demanded that the company submit a plan to stop sales to teens after launching an investigation into the company's sales practices. The FDA warned Juul over its claims that its products were less harmful than cigarettes. There was a time when fruity-flavor e-cigarette Pods were banned in the US.

If the ban goes into effect, it will apply to the Juul device itself, a sleek vaping pen, and to four specific liquid cartridges, all of which are tobacco-flavor or menthol-flavor. The FDA denied its proposal to limit nicotine in real cigarettes sold in the US.

There is some new news here.

The Age Crackdown on social media sites.

New age verification tools will be introduced on the platform. If a user changes their birth date to put them over or under the age of 18, they'll have to verify it. Either uploading an ID, getting friends to vouch for you, or uploading a selfies The latter option is being offered through a partnership with Yoti, which uses facial recognition technology to estimate a person's age.

The app wants to make it different for teens and adults. Privacy and artificial intelligence experts are nervous despite the noble intentions. Meta has a history of data sharing and privacy issues.

Users in the US are the only ones who are being tested with the age verification requirement.

Microsoft is no longer using controversial Emotion-Detecting Artificial Intelligence.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Microsoft will remove features from its cloud computing platform that use facial recognition software to track the physical attributes of people in images. It has been criticized for the possibility of being biased and inaccurate.

Microsoft has a history of questionable ethical situations. It was criticized for using the platform to work with ICE. Microsoft wants to get out in front of the criticism. Microsoft released a document called the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Standard, which it says will guide how it uses artificial intelligence in its products.