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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)

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...::undefined

House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)

Airbnb bans all indoor security cameras (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....

Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that? (www.npr.org)

Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?::undefined

NASA finds Ingenuity after losing contact with the Mars helicopter (www.npr.org)

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances (www.npr.org)

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances::undefined

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried (www.npr.org)

The Shiba Inu that inspired Dogecoin crypto and countless memes has died (www.npr.org)

The FCC says AI voices in robocalls are illegal (www.npr.org)

The FCC says AI voices in robocalls are illegal::undefined

The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' (www.npr.org)

The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever'::undefined

Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT (www.npr.org)

Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (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)

German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)

A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions (www.npr.org)

A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)

Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI (www.npr.org)

NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher to lead in turbulent era (www.npr.org)

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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)

What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR (www.npr.org)

ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis (www.npr.org)

ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis (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)