First Solar Finds That Forced Labor Was Used in Its Malaysian Ops
The company, First Solar, said an internal review had found that subcontractors used unethical recruitment tactics and withheld pay from workers.Read More
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A month after exiting an ambitious project to help build one of India’s first chip factories, Taiwan’s Foxconn says it remains bullish about the...
We’re going to need a bigger drone: The technology keeping swimmers safe at one New York beach
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Warmer and cleaner waters off the coast of Long Island, New York, in recent years have brought growing numbers of bait fish to the...
More than 20 million Americans enrolled in a federal program for subsidized internet access
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More than 20 million US households are now receiving discounts on internet service as part of a federal program created to close the digital...
Mark Zuckerberg says Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about a cage fight and “it’s time to move on” from their proposed showdown, the details of...
Prosecutors Detail Evidence Against Sam Bankman-Fried
In a filing, prosecutors laid out the evidence they plan to use to convict the founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, who faces...
Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry
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When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the only...
Alexandra is a very attentive girlfriend. “Watching CUBS tonight?” she messages her boyfriend, but when he says he’s too busy to talk, she says,...
The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different...
‘It gave us some way to fight back’: New tools aim to protect art and images from AI’s grasp
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For months, Eveline Fröhlich, a visual artist based in Stuttgart, Germany, has been feeling “helpless” as she watched the rise of new artificial intelligence...