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Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies
In 2016, Oskarina Fuentes got a tip from a friend that seemed too good to be true. Her life in…
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How China’s EV Boom Caught Western Car Companies Asleep at the Wheel
David Tyfield, a professor of political economy at Lancaster University and author of the 2019 book Liberalism 2.0 and the…
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X’s Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal
Last week, Mashable reported that on X (formerly Twitter), users were noticing a new type of advertisement: Minus a regular…
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The Curse of the Creator Economy
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the…
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US House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks
“Oh, wow. Really?” John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat, says after WIRED informs him of his rowdy Republican neighbor’s new no-phone…
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The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Decimate US Solar Energy Output
To cope with the eclipse, grid operators need to line up enough alternative power sources to fill tomorrow’s gap. The…
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SBF’s Magic Hair and Other Big Moments From the FTX Trial
During cross examination, defense attorney Mark Cohen continually tried to stress that Alameda’s total net value assets were the same…
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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
Kari Groszewska, a senior at Vanderbilt University studying computer science and economics, says she attended the conference and arrived at…
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The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other
Lena Anderson isn’t a soccer fan, but she does spend a lot of time ferrying her kids between soccer practices…
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How the FTX Thieves Have Tried to Launder Their $400 Million Haul
As the criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried unfolds in a Manhattan courtroom, some observers in the cryptocurrency world…
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