February 24, 2025

Your boss is watching

A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…

January 2024

Timekettle’s $699 translation hardware handles multiple languages at once

January 8, 2024

Personal translation devices have had a hugely transformative decade. Improvements to processing power, machine learning and cloud platforms have all played key roles in this development. The technology is increasingly becoming a mainstay of wireless earbuds, and the recent explosion of generative AI platforms will only serve to further these impressive results. It’s easy to […]

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Neoplants shows off its Neo P1 bio-engineered air-purifying plant

January 8, 2024

At CES 2024, French startup Neoplants is showing off its progress with its houseplants that work as air purifiers designed for the home. The bio-engineered plants can, according to the company, replace 20 “regular” houseplants, as measured by how many pollutants the plants can remove from the air. Neoplants bioengineers houseplants to use them as […]

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LoanDepot hit by suspected ransomware attack

January 8, 2024

Mortgage and loan giant LoanDepot said Monday it is experiencing a cyberattack and that it’s “working diligently to restore normal business operations as quickly as possible.” The Irvine, Calif.-based company said in a brief statement on its cybersecurity incident page that it has “taken certain systems offline” and is “working quickly to understand the extent […]

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