Author: Aron Solomon

First appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon Cafes have the legal right to forbid the use of laptops in their establishment if they choose to do so. While many cafes welcome customers who want to use their laptops for work or leisure, some cafes may have policies in place that restrict the use of electronic devices like laptops. These policies may be based on the cafe’s size, layout, or type of clientele they cater to. It’s important to note that if a cafe has a policy against using laptops, they should make it clear to customers so that they can make…

First appeared in Boston Herald By Aron Solomon “Calories plus energy equals survival,” roars the refrain of a far-too-frequent FOX News satellite radio commercial.  If you’re like me and a big listener of satellite radio, you can’t help but come across ads for emergency food storage. One of the commercials I hear the most is from a company called mypatriotsupply.com The ads are interesting, as expected, and a little bizarre. They ask if we’ve ever noticed that some people never seem stressed about life? This, of course, leads to the fact that all of these people have emergency food supplies that…

First appeared in DC Journal By Aron Solomon Netflix is killing it. It’s really that simple. From the critically acclaimed car racing “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” to the new tennis “Break Point” to the pretty fantastic golf “Full Swing,” Netflix understands what their tens of millions of viewers want in a sports documentary, and they deliver. We have, in fact, collectively become obsessed with sports documentaries. Adam Birkhold, a New Jersey lawyer and fan of sports and the documentaries they help create, reasons: “If a sports documentary is an escape, these new Netflix sports docu-series are an extended escape. Best…

First appeared in Western Journal By Aron Solomon Is Elon Musk redefining how HR is done? That is, to be crystal-clear, tongue-in-cheek. HR professionals are ordering massive vats of popcorn to munch as they watch things like this corporate nightmare of a Twitter exchange from Monday evening: Believe it or not, it got much worse than this, with Musk opening Twitter up to a HIPAA violation by disclosing disability information about the employee, who later defended himself in a masterful thread that will surely lay the foundation for a civil lawsuit against Musk and Twitter. There is a reason why what Musk did…

First appeared in BOXSCORE By Aron Solomon This week in Montreal is an international Tennis Federation (ITF) men’s 25K ($25,000 total prize money) tournament (M25). At the same time, in other parts of the world, there are two other 25K tournaments and a couple of 15K tournaments. In the big leagues, Indian Wells, the unofficial 5th Grand Slam, kicks off on Wednesday. The winner of the men’s ATP Tour singles draw at Indian Wells will walk away with $1,262,220 (parenthetically this is one of the far too few tournaments that offer the same prize money for men and women). Here in…

First appeared in DC Journal By Aron Solomon The English Premier League has been thrown into a profound crisis by what appears to be a remarkable set of rules violations by one of its most storied teams, Manchester City, known as Man City or simply City. The accusations form one of the most serious scandals in soccer history — certainly in the history of the Premier League, widely regarded as the world’s top soccer league and one of the most elite professional sports leagues. Manchester City is the league’s current champion and one of the favorites to win this season’s European…

First appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon Ghost kitchens, also known as virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, or dark kitchens, are commercial kitchens designed solely for the purpose of food delivery and takeout orders. Unlike traditional restaurants, ghost kitchens don’t have a storefront or dining area for customers to sit and eat. Instead, they operate entirely online and exclusively serve customers through delivery apps or their own online ordering system. The concept of ghost kitchens has become increasingly popular in recent years due to the rise of food delivery services like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. These platforms have made it…

First appeared in BOXSCORE By Aron Solomon To make a painfully long story short, Novak Djokovic (yes, the same Novak Djokovic of the 2022 Australian Open visa soap opera that eventually became a tragicomedy for him and for his fans) has been denied entry to the United States for the “Sunshine Slam” that begins on Thursday. For those who aren’t tennis fanatics, the Sunshine Slam refers to two of the calendar’s most significant events that aren’t Grand Slams – Indian Wells and Miami). Mr. Djokovic has been denied entry to the United States for the same reason as his visa denial to Australia in 2022…

First appeared in Boston Herald By Aron Solomon These days, we read a lot about what people “create” on ChatGPT and, following naturally from that, whether they actually own what they have created.  The idea of creation on ChatGPT and other similar AI tools might be a little bit of a stretch. These are language models that, at least in theory, are continuously improved as we put more data sets into them. But the idea of us having intellectual property rights over anything that we create in ChatGPT makes me think about, of all things, a Big Mac. I think about…

First appeared in FORTUNE By Aron Solomon Artificial intelligence + law is a blindingly hot equation. We are proving by the week that we simply can’t look away. Enter Harvey, today’s golden child that lives at the intersection of technology and law. Harvey is an A.I. platform that can help lawyers perform legal tasks in areas such as due diligence, litigation, and compliance. Described as “the innovative artificial intelligence platform built on a version of Open AI’s latest models enhanced for legal work,” legaltech startup Harvey, the self-styled “generative A.I. for elite law firms,” is about to play in the big…