Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email::Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent a year-end note to employees, suggesting they work longer hours and do better at mixing work with their personal lives.
China’s New Gaming Regulations Prompt Massive Market Value Loss for Tencent and NetEase::In a significant blow to the gaming sector, China’s National Press and Publication Administration has called for public feedback on the draft of the “Network Game Management Measures” on December 22. The proposed regulations cover...
Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years::After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat.
The hyperloop is dead for real this time::Hyperloop One is shutting down its operations. The company was founded in 2014 promising pods that would carry passengers at airline speeds through nearly airless tubes. Turns out, it wasn’t really viable.
“At the end of the day I just want to know who’ll be responsible when the tube collapses and people get seriously hurt or worse. Can’t say I didn’t warn you guys.”...
Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down::One of the longest-running hyperloop startups is reportedly shutting its doors. Hyperloop One, once backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, will cease
US commits to landing an international astronaut on the Moon - This decade::This ticket to the Moon will probably go to a European or Japanese astronaut.
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims::Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI::A new class of antibiotics for drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria which was discovered using more transparent deep learning models.
Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine::Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.
Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that