CEO of Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition startup, has resigned
The CEO of controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI has resigned, he confirms to TechCrunch.
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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…
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No Meetings, Up to $30 Per Hour, Fully Remote: A College Student Training AI Says the Work Is ‘Perfect’ for Introverts
He works 30 hours a week without a direct boss, daily meetings, or contact with coworkers.
Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows
A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans’ views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley with his sudden interest in high fashion, the Meta CEO is less popular than President Trump’s right-hand man, Elon Musk, the report found. While about […]
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Amazon Is Replacing Chime, Its Proprietary Video Conferencing Software, With… Zoom
Amazon is also adopting Microsoft 365 tools like Word and PowerPoint.
Bankrupt Nikola wants to sell its whole business by April
Electric trucking startup Nikola is hoping to sell what remains of its whole business as early as April, lawyers for the company told a judge Thursday during the first hearing of its bankruptcy case in Delaware. The lawyers claimed Nikola already has at least three interested buyers (who they did not name) and that the […]
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Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people
A bug in the Android and iPhone monitoring operations allows anyone to access private data exfiltrated from a victim’s device.
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Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Meta announced on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it’s going to end its third-party fact-checking program and is instead moving to a Community Notes model similar to the one at X. In a blog post, Meta […]
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Tesla to test virtual queues at Supercharging locations
Road rage has been around for a while. A newer phenomenon that’s cropping up is EV charging rage — the feeling when a fellow EV owner cuts the line to grab one of the only working charge ports. It’s common enough that people posted altercations between EV drivers on social media and forums. In at […]
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How to Transform Your Business Operations Through Process Innovation
Implementing an innovation management system enables businesses to drive continual improvement by systematically enhancing process maps, ensuring efficiency, compliance and sustainability.
Most Startups Don’t Fail Because of Ideas or Funding — Here’s the Real Reason
People really make or break the start-up. Even the most promising project with a brilliant idea can crumble due to internal conflicts.