An RWDSU representative holds a sign outside the Amazon fulfillment warehouse that was at the center of a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images A failed union drive may get new life...
Reed Hastings is the biggest donor in the California recall election — by far. | Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix Reed Hastings is spending $3 million to back Newsom. There could be much more to come....
On May 10, 40 advocacy groups sent an open letter demanding a permanent ban on the use of Amazon’s facial recognition software, Rekognition, by US police. The letter was addressed to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, the company’s current...
I may be overstating a bit, but it seems like we can’t go a week without some breach or ransom attack hitting the news cycles. It’s even more frustrating when these incidents affect the lives of the rank and...
Meanwhile, the Kremlin routinely strongly resists international efforts to bring the hackers to heel, simply throwing accusations back at the rest of the world—refusing to acknowledge that a problem exists, and declining to help. On May 11, for example,...
This week, researchers identified what is now the world’s largest iceberg. | Alessandro Dahan/Getty Images An ice analyst explains the job. Recently, a humongous chunk of floating ice broke off from an ice shelf...
Google has published Angular DevTools, a Chrome DevTools extension to inspect the structure and profile performance of applications built with the Angular framework.Developed in conjunction with tool builder Rangle.io, and introduced May 18, Angular DevTools is focused on visualization...
It's National Masturbation Month! I know that sounds weird, but basically, this is a month for some self-reflection about the highly stigmatized but nearly universal act of self-love. It all started when President Bill Clinton fired then surgeon general...
Jeramey Lende/Shutterstock.com One of the takedowns involves the large Chinese electronics brand Mpow. Amazon recently banned some sellers of large Chinese electronics brands like Aukey and Mpow that reportedly do hundreds of millions in...
Among other things, this is what Gebru, Mitchell, and five other scientists warned about in their paper, which calls LLMs “stochastic parrots.” “Language technology can be very, very useful when it is appropriately scoped and situated and framed,” says...
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