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Monday September 9, 2024. 12:36 AM
Alorica — which runs customer-service centers around the world — has introduced an AI translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers in 200 different languages. But according to the Associated Press, 'Alorica isn't cutting jobs. It's still hiring...
Sunday September 8, 2024. 11:23 PM
This week after striking for over a month, videogame performers reached agreements with 80 games this week, reports the Associated Press. 'SAG-AFTRA announced the agreements with the 80 individual video games on Thursday. Performers impacted by the work stoppage can now work ...
'Solar farms could blanket millions of acres in the United States over the coming decades,' writes the New York Times. But 'the sites that capture that energy take up land that wildlife needs to survive and thrive.' 'We have to address both challenges at the same exact...
A schoolteacher using an interactive whiteboard is surprised by an alert. Their school is in 'hard lockdown.' They knew — instantly — something was about to happen, and 'got everybody into a corner,' they later told CNN. Classroom doors at the school are always locked, so...
The Wall Street Journal writes that Telegram 'has become the premier internet platform to buy everything from hacked data and weapons to illicit drugs and child sexual abuse material, according to current and former law-enforcement officials and cybercrime researchers...'...
Here’s what the experts want you to know before making your first electric bike purchase.
'If you're plugged into KDE social media, you probably see a lot of requests for donations...' writes KDE developer Nate Graham on his personal blog. But 'We know that the fraction of people who subscribe to these channels is small, so there's a huge number of people who may ...
These 2-in-1 computers upgrade the norm with touchscreen displays, 360-degree hinges, and detachable keyboards.
'China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 mission to Mars in 2028, two years earlier than previously planned,' writes the South China Morning Post, a change that one space policy research believes 'suggests a rising confidence by China in its ability to get the technology...
We’ve typed thousands of words to help you find the ideal clacky—or thocky—mechanical keyboard for your refined taste.
Electric grills dangle the potential of being greener, safer, and more consistent than propane grills. But the experience of using one is frustrating.
The concept of space-time makes Star Trek-style warp drives theoretically possible, and researchers have proposed a way of detecting their use.
GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Nvidia is embroiled in an antitrust'n'patent lawsuit, which alleges the GPU giant colluded with Microsoft and the intellectual property risk management firm RPX to rip off the data processing unit (DPU)...
Wired interviews America's foreign policy chief, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about U.S. digital polices, starting with a new 'cybersecurity bureau' created in 2022 (which Wired previously reported includes 'a crash course in cybersecurity, telecommunications, privacy, ...
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and...
TL;DR: Save $180 on lifetime access to Microsoft Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more included. If you’re subscribed to Microsoft 365, you’re overpaying—period. Instead of renting your productivity apps at a whopping $84/year for the rest of your life,...
The Register reports that Google 'recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language.' And they add that Google 'wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firmware.' A post on...
Harvard's school of public policy is publishing a Misinformation Review for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles promising 'reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.' This week it reported that 'Academic journals,...
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a 'guaranteed minimum support time' for devices — and federal regulations ensuring a product's core functionality will work even after its software updates stop. Influential groups including Consumer Reports,...
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