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Meta Eyes a Moderation Partner With ‘Traumatizing’ Working Conditions
Meta has cut ties with a subcontractor that provided moderators for its African markets, just weeks before the tech giant…
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Tesla’s Problems Go Way Beyond Elon Musk
A Plante Moran analysis shared with WIRED shows Tesla’s share of the North American EV market declining from 70 percent…
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How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and…
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The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United…
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My Week With the Future of Garbage Bins
It’s 10 pm and, like a vampire stirring in its coffin to greet the nocturne, my garbage bin comes to…
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The Collapse of the UK’s Electric Vehicle Champion
Britishvolt was meant to be the UK’s answer to Tesla. By 2024, it was supposed to be producing hundreds of…
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Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are Taking Charge
But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that…
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Cheaters Hacked an AI Bot—and Beat the ‘Rocket League’ Elite
Last week, Reed Wilen, an elite gamer who uses the handle “Chicago” in Rocket League, a popular vehicular-soccer game, encountered a…
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Metaverse Landlords Are Creating a New Class System
Although Decentraland is among the most popular blockchain-based virtual worlds, it’s far from the only of its breed: Somnium Space,…
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A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis
Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to back…
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