Google in 2024: A roller coaster ride through Silicon Valley
Alphabet Inc.’s Q4 2023 earnings showed significant revenue and operational income increases amidst broader market and internal challenges.
This Startup Built the Future of Fast Food – Now It’s Scaling Nationwide
Miso Robotics has officially entered the commercial era, and investors have a new window to join before scale takes off.
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Antitrust enforcers admit they’re in a race to understand how to tackle AI
Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling to get a handle on AI, a conference in Brussels heard yesterday. It’s a moment that demands “extraordinary vigilance” and clear-sighted focus on how the market works, suggested top US competition law enforcers. From the European side, antitrust enforcers sounded more hesitant over how to […]
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Snap recalls discontinued Pixy drone over fire risk
Snap and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are recalling the company’s discontinued Pixy drone and telling owners to stop using it or charging the batteries because of a fire hazard. This comes after the safety agency received “four reports of the battery overheating and bulging, resulting in one minor battery fire and one minor […]
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How to Use AI to Amplify the Potential of Your Team
Small businesses should consider how AI can improve the business, but they shouldn’t get carried away by the AI boom that is bound to bust.
United Airlines Threatens Employees With ‘Termination’ For Using Their Cell Phones on Flights
An internal memo reportedly outlined the safety issues that can crop up when flight attendants use personal devices.
Your Employees Hate Meetings — Follow These 11 Tips for More Productive Check-Ins
Make your one-on-ones more meaningful. Follow these tips and best practices for productive meetings that develop your team.
Arc is building an AI agent that browses on your behalf
For years, Google (or any other search engine) has been the main gateway for people to discover websites and other content. The Browser Company, which makes the Arc Browser, is on a quest to change that by building an AI that surfs the web for you and gets you the results while bypassing search engines. […]
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Meta Quest adds support for Apple’s Spatial Video ahead of Vision Pro launch
Apple’s brand-new Vision Pro headset has lost one of its competitive advantages over rivals, as Meta announced today that it, too, will add support for spatial video playback on its more affordable Meta Quest. Spatial video, also known as stereoscopic videos, are videos Apple customers themselves can film with any iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone […]
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US gives federal agencies 48 hours to disconnect flawed Ivanti VPN tech
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered federal agencies to urgently disconnect Ivanti VPN appliances given the risk of malicious exploitation due to multiple software flaws. In an update to an emergency directive first published last week, CISA is now mandating that all federal civilian executive branch agencies — a list that includes the Homeland Security […]
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Here is Apple’s official ‘jailbroken’ iPhone for security researchers
In 2019, Apple announced it would start sending some security researchers a “special” version of the iPhone designed to be used to find vulnerabilities, which could then be reported to Apple so the company could fix them. In 2020, the company started shipping the devices, which are designed to have some security features disabled, making […]
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