In August 2019, when a Facebook employee typed “climate change” into the platform’s search bar, the auto-fill suggestions that popped up included “climate change...
Crypto Is Cool. Now Get on the Yacht.
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NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
Google Temps Fought Loss of Pandemic Bonus. And Won.
When a Google staffing agency reneged on a promise to pay an attendance bonus, temps who are part of the company’s union organized and...
The Metaverse Takes Manhattan
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NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.Read More
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores
The social networking company has discussed opening physical stores to showcase its virtual reality and augmented reality devices.Read More
A federal judge delivered a major blow to Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, on Thursday by ruling in favor of NASA in a...
Facebook Faces New Antitrust Lawsuit
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The suit, filed by the now defunct photo start-up Phhhoto, accused the social network of stalling on a deal and then putting it out...
The quarter was otherwise upbeat, as business continued to rebound.Read More
Isomorphic Labs is a spinoff of the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind.Read More
Pamela McCorduck, Historian of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 80
She interviewed many of the scientists who were at the heart of the field through the end of the 1970s, and she compiled a...