Apple Stock Gloom Deepens as Pressure to Show AI Progress Mounts. | Continue reading
Freshly Baked NYC Debuts Legal Weed Delivery in Long Island City, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. | Continue reading
Black faces are overrepresented in databases used to train AI for law enforcement - and some facial recognition software used in this context fails 96% of the time. This practice is an accelerant for already deeply harmful inequities. Time to ban it. #AI [Link] | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc. laid off more workers late Saturday in a fresh wave of cuts meant to curb costs at the social networking company now owned by Elon Musk.Most Read from BloombergNigeria Latest: Tinubu Wins Ekiti Vote; Next Briefing at 11 a.m.Covid-19 Pandemic Most Likel … | Continue reading
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says if Elon Musk wants Twitter to be a public square, he should make its algorithms open source. | Continue reading
The Social Coop Limited (Social Coop), the entity affiliated with Mask Network has acquired Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances. The new team will be taking over the operation and maintenance of Pawoo.net starting from December 21st, 2022, with no impact on existing … | Continue reading
InfowarsYe’s appearance on far-right conspiracy-theory outlet InfoWars quickly turned into a chance to preach antisemitic hatred on Thursday, as the star formerly known as Kanye West praised Adolf Hitler within the first thirty minutes of the broadcast.Ye, whose face was entirely … | Continue reading
Apple is breaking one of its most sacred tenets by prioritizing revenue over serving its customers, writes Michael Gartenberg. | Continue reading
twitter will also use a separate “official” label for “select” accounts, in addition to the expanded blue checkmark anyone can purchase. | Continue reading
The billionaire, now calling himself "chief twit", is facing a Friday deadline to buy Twitter. | Continue reading
Record low supply + record high demand = higher costs for everything | Continue reading
BORDEAUX, France, October 24, 2022--The Luos Discord community has nearly tripled the number of participants since it was announced in July. | Continue reading
Hong Kong stocks slid to 13-year lows on Monday and onshore yuan fell to its weakest level in 15 years after Xi Jinping's newly unveiled leadership team heightened fears that economic growth will be sacrificed for ideology-driven policies. The Hang Seng index slumped 5% in early … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- The largest US banks are warning of trouble ahead in auto loans as dropping prices for used cars risk leaving borrowers underwater. Most Read from BloombergSandy Hook Families Ask Judge to Max Out Alex Jones PenaltyTSMC Suspends Work for Chinese Chip Startup Amid U … | Continue reading
Serena Williams, tennis legend and VC, took the stage with business partner Alison Rapaport Stillman this week at TechCrunch Disrupt, noting that winning looks different in VC-land than it does on the tennis court. | Continue reading
When the writer Ken Auletta had profiled her for the New Yorker in an article titled "Blood, Simpler," he did not reveal that her technology failed to work. But one odd detail caught his attention. She couldn't explain how her blood-testing device worked. | Continue reading
Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley discusses Uber launching ads across its app and the data privacy concerns for consumers. | Continue reading
A prolonged drought is creating traffic jams and leading to stuck boats in the Mississippi River at the worst possible time. | Continue reading
SEOUL, South Korea, October 18, 2022--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that its latest LPDDR5X DRAM with the industry’s fastest speed of 8.5 gigabits per second (Gbps) was validated for use on Snapdragon® mobile platfo … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- If Elon Musk really does go through with his acquisition of Twitter Inc., the social media giant will face an annual interest burden of nearly $1.2 billion on its debt - a problem that’s only going to get worse as rates continue to rise.Most Read from BloombergHere … | Continue reading
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is finally sounding off on its blockbuster $5.4 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Mandiant, expressing the extent of the company's ambitions in the sector. | Continue reading
PayPal is walking back a recently updated Acceptable Use Policy that threatened to fine users up to $2,500 for using the service to “promote misinformation." | Continue reading
The Biden administration is trying to slow China's technological advances on concern they could be used for military purposes. | Continue reading
In Asia, super-apps are already a vital part of everyday life, with everything available at a click of a button. | Continue reading
Here's a list of the best wireless headphones you can buy right now, as reviewed by Engadget editors. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Most Read from BloombergCredit Suisse Turmoil Deepens With Record Stock, CDS LevelsTesla Slumps as Deliveries Disappoint Due to Logistic SnarlsOPEC+ to Consider Output Cut of More Than 1 Million BarrelsUkraine Latest: Zelenskiy Says Lyman ‘Fully Cleared’ of Russian … | Continue reading
Sales of non-fungible tokens dropped sharply in the third quarter, according to blockchain tracker DappRadar, as crypto investors hunker down for a "crypto winter" and demand for the highly speculative digital assets shows little sign of returning. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Already shaky market sentiment took a gut punch on Thursday after used-car dealer CarMax Inc’s latest quarterly results laid bare the plight of US consumers stuck between high inflation and climbing interest rates. Most Read from BloombergApple Ditches iPhone Produ … | Continue reading
The liquidation of Lehman Brothers' brokerage unit has ended, 14 years and 13 days after its parent's bankruptcy helped trigger a market freefall and global financial crisis. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley Chapman in Manhattan closed the brokerage's estate on Wednesday and awarde … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- An endemic shortage of chips costing anywhere from 50 cents to $10 is slowing down swathes of the $600 billion semiconductor industry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s top executive warned Tuesday.Most Read from BloombergLukoil Chairman Ravil Maganov Dies A … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday in a bid to prop up its currency and curb inflation nearing 100%.Most Read from BloombergAdobe Near Deal for Online Design Startup Figma, Sources SayRay Dalio Does the Math: Rates at 4.5% Would Si … | Continue reading
Jefferies Equity Research Analyst Brent Thill assesses Adobe's deal to acquire Figma amid its third-quarter revenue beat, while looking at investor responses, the climate of the tech sector, and Amazon's NFL streaming deal. | Continue reading
A co-founder said then, “I wouldn’t say we’re the next Y Combinator, but the next YC would look something like that.” The company soon went onto raise venture funding for its vision of what a next-generation entrepreneurial ecosystem looks like, combining remote work’s benefits … | Continue reading
Holding out hope for clear skies in real estate? You may be waiting a while. | Continue reading
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc's chief financial officer fell to his death from New York's Tribeca skyscraper known as the "Jenga" tower on Friday afternoon, police said, just days after a lawsuit alleged he was involved in a "pump and dump" scheme. Gustavo Arnal, 52, joined Bed Bath & B … | Continue reading
A bug in the protocol’s newly-deployed iBTC-aUSD liquidity pool left the door wide open for hackers to exploit. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. has set a Sept. 5 deadline for corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week after delaying its return plans several times due to Covid-19 spikes. The company will require employees to work from the office on Tuesdays, Thursdays and … | Continue reading
It’s not just star tech investor Marc Andreessen. Big names from Apple, Google, and Netflix really don't want anything new built in their backyard in Atherton, California. | Continue reading
There are no minimum standards for the size of airline seats. The FAA might change that. | Continue reading
At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life. | Continue reading
The red-hot PC market is rapidly slowing after surging during the COVID-19 pandemic, and powerhouse chip players AMD and Intel are feeling the financial pain. | Continue reading
I drove two electric pickup trucks, the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Rivian R1T. See how their capability and unique features stack up. | Continue reading
SEATTLE, July 28, 2022--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022. | Continue reading
China's top chip maker has likely gained the ability to produce 7-nanometre chips, according to a Canadian tech analysis firm, marking a significant breakthrough as the world's second-largest economy pushes towards technological self-sufficiency to counter US sanctions. Researche … | Continue reading
Rivian has started laying off about 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan, according to an internal email from founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. The companywide email, which was sent out Wednesday and viewed by TechCrunch, alerted all employees that those affected would … | Continue reading
Research Highlights: Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a potential route of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein damaging the heart. In study evaluating mice and human heart cells, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein inflamed the heart muscle cells,... | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Elon Musk’s companies in recent months after learning that he had a brief affair with his wife, according to the Wall Street Journal.Most Read from BloombergWho Is Nicole Shan … | Continue reading
From dog mode to fart mode, the features reflect Elon Musk's unique sense of humor and have added to Tesla's cult following. | Continue reading