Unionizing video game makers - workers struggle with "passion tax", writers for Red Dead Redemption 2 worked a hundred hours a week for three weeks (www.npr.org)
A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)
Volkswagen employees vote 2628 in favor of UAW, 985 against, ignoring governors of Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama (www.npr.org)
Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)
Airbnb bans all indoor security cameras (www.npr.org)
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried (www.npr.org)
Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for more than $128 million in severance (www.npr.org)
Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X....
Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)
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Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI (www.npr.org)
The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' (www.npr.org)
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The FCC says AI voices in robocalls are illegal (www.npr.org)
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The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances (www.npr.org)
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What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR (www.npr.org)
Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that? (www.npr.org)
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NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher to lead in turbulent era (www.npr.org)
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NASA finds Ingenuity after losing contact with the Mars helicopter (www.npr.org)
Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos (www.npr.org)
"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications....
Google to pay $700 million in case over whether its app store is an illegal monopoly (www.npr.org)
Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start (www.npr.org)
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Van poof! Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof goes bankrupt, leaving riders stranded (www.npr.org)
The sophisticated bicycle has attracted fans in Europe and the U.S., but repairs under warranty have bled the company of money.
The Eurovision Song Contest kicked off with pop and protests (www.npr.org)
Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday in Sweden, with the war in Gaza casting a shadow over the sequin-spangled pop extravaganza....
Fire ravages 17th-century Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, toppling the iconic spire (npr.org)
A fire raged through one of Copenhagen's oldest buildings on Tuesday, causing the collapse of the iconic spire of the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables....
Attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant increases accident risk, IAEA head says (www.npr.org)
The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a Ukrainian drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, saying such attacks "significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident."...
Ukraine's Kharkiv moves classrooms underground so kids survive Russian attacks (npr.org)
For 7-year-old Maksym Timchenko, school often feels like the safest place in his hometown, Ukraine's second-largest city....
