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The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down::Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.

Creating images from text Google is launching a new tool called ImageFX to create images from text, powered by artificial intelligence....

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist::A make-up artist says she lost her job at a leading brand after an AI recruitment tool that used facial recognition technology marked her down for her body language.

The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?::undefined

Tesla agrees to pay $1.5 million to settle California hazardous waste lawsuit::Tesla has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 25 California counties earlier this week accusing the electric vehicle maker of mishandling hazardous waste at its facilities across the state.

Assuming to artificially secure people with new memberships through their first 4-6 weeks to establish a habit through the first billing cycle. Is this a known thing?

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability....

Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident::Large proportions of users posting on Twitter – now X – about the Chinese balloon that drifted over the US and Canada in 2023 were bots attempting to shape the debate

Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

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As someone who enjoys the idea of making own scavenger hunt experiences, I’ve discovered the top 5 scavenger hunt apps that are considered the best for it....

Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO::Social media platform’s valuation is expected to have tumbled from $10bn in 2021

🔥The battle for AI supremacy is heating up! 🔥 Latest GPT-4-0125-preview and Bard-Feb-2024 are live at chat.lmsys.org 🤖🤖. Will Bard and Mistral unseat OpenAI as the reigning champ? 🤔🤔

‘Betrayed’ SAP workers rebel against forced office return::The German software giant has changed direction, and more than 5,000 employees have signed an internal petition saying they feel ‘betrayed’.

New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs::Artificial intelligence is still costly to replace most human jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Beyond AI Exposure study said, “Machines will steal our jobs” is a sentiment frequently expressed...

Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco’s Union Square::Apple’s new Vision Pro headset drew a sparse but eager crowd to San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, for pickups and demos.