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When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, an estimated 7,500 worked there. Within six months, Musk—mired in debt from an acquisition now...
The US has a deal to suspend the debt limit, but it still may get its credit rating cut. Fitch Ratings says the country’s AAA rating remains in...
The National Institute of Health, the main US government agency working on health research, is the largest biomedical founder. It employs nearly...
If you want to imagine an engineer’s nightmare, here it goes: You’ve spent nearly a decade building a spacecraft, testing and re-testing the...
California’s homeowners are already bearing the brunt of devastating wildfires every summer. Now, it will be harder for them to find insurance...
The groundwater under Arizona’s city of Phoenix has run to alarmingly low levels—not enough to keep up with its booming residential demand, the...
After seven consecutive years of annual decline, Japan posted its lowest-ever birth rate in 2022, according to the health ministry. Read more...
China is embarking on a journey into the earthy unknown.Read more...
America is one signature away from staving off a disastrous default.Read more...
Meta wants employees back in the office.Read more...
Apple fans are looking forward to the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference Monday (June 5) to find out just how much of the rumored...
Arizona has long been a magnet for semiconductor companies, and now it’s a magnet for their expansions. Intel announced in 2021 it was building...
The percentage of American women in their prime working years employed or looking for work reached an all-time-high in May, while prime-age men are...
Skyrocketing airfares have burnt a hole in Indians’ pockets during vacation season. Read more...
Twitter has lost its second head of trust and safety in six months, highlighting ongoing issues with the platform’s content moderation...
The job market in the US expanded by 339,000 jobs in May, exceeding economists’ projections for 195,000 new jobs. At the same time, there was an...
Investments in clean energy will be record-breaking in 2023, with $1.74 trillion of global investment so far, according to the International Energy...
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Netflix shareholders rejected a proposed increase in the pay packages of the company executives, in a non-binding vote that took place during the...
An Indian official last week got a reservoir drained so that he could retrieve his cell phone, which had fallen in. Rajesh Vishwas, a food...
We were squarely into the pandemic, and I was running into problems with remote work. People just weren’t engaged. I couldn’t blame them; we were...
The LGBTQ community exists all year round but, for years, America Inc. only seemed to think about them in June, the month designated to honor LGBTQ...
The US got a step closer to enacting a deal that would suspend the federal government’s borrowing limit.Read more...
Class 10 students following the Indian government’s syllabus will no longer learn the periodic table of elements. Environmental sustainability...
Africa’s key auto hubs, South Africa and Morocco, have hinted at mega and giga factories in their electric cars bid to remain relevant and tap a...
Adidas has started selling its leftover Yeezys to its most loyal customers.Read more...
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of the fraudulent blood-testing startup Theranos, just started her 11-year prison sentence on May 30, a month...
Regulators around the world are hammering out how to regulate artificial intelligence. The fast-moving, nebulous technology is hard to define,...
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, officially launched its new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, integrating the technology into its suite...
Nearly 700 years ago, Europe’s first mechanized printing press was created, helping to democratize access to knowledge and, in the process,...
NASA is searching for extra-terrestrial life every day, but UAPs are giving some of its experts agita. Read more...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hauling Amazon over the coals for its lax enforcement of data privacy, forcing it to pay $30 million in fines...
Dollar General shareholders voted to independently audit the chain store’s workplace safety following employee, regulator, and activist demands...
Pride month is here, but not all LGBTQ employees feel like celebrating.Read more...
I was sitting in the boardroom, surrounded by the board of directors and the leadership team, and I was sweating. The executives were tense after...
China’s crackdown on technology firms and covid lockdowns had cooled foreign companies’ enthusiasm for doing business in the country. Recent...
Meta shareholders voted against a proposal from fellow shareholders calling for an inquiry into allegations of spreading hate speech and content...
The US debt ceiling deal, which passed through the House and awaits Senate approval, would remove some Americans from the Supplemental Nutrition...
Elon Musk is facing fresh accusations of insider trading in a lawsuit filed by cryptocurrency investors, who say the Tesla CEO and Twitter owner...
Anna Wintour’s main residence is in New York City, but the British fashion icon has not forgotten her London roots. Vogue’s global editorial...
Delta Air Lines’ green credentials are facing a legal test.Read more...
Your next job interview may be with a computer.Read more...
With the much-publicized layoffs of around 250,000 tech workers over the past couple of months, it’s a…weird time out there in the job market. And...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the son of West Virginia governor Jim Justice, accusing him of failing to pay more...
Western companies are increasingly cognizant—and wary—of the risks of doing business in China, especially after recent high-profile raids...
On Tuesday (May 30), Nvidia became the first semiconductor company to (briefly) hit a $1 trillion valuation. Its stock has been rising for months,...
India’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has drafted new measures to make foreign investments into a single...
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Indian wrestling’s #MeToo movement is about to enter its sixth month of protest and shows no signs of wavering in its resolve to seek...
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Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote a part of her speech using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial...
A new study found that Google’s search algorithm does not disproportionately lead people to click on partisan and unreliable news. Rather, people...
A platform with a quirky emoji name is becoming the go-to place for AI developers to exchange ideas. Read more...
A bit more than a year into the covid-19 pandemic, management professor Anthony Klotz spoke to Bloomberg News and warned of a coming “Great...
The president of the Netherlands House of Representatives published an open letter on Wednesday (May 31) that called on Twitter to address toxic...
Chinese consumers are snapping up Tesla Model Ys almost as fast as Elon Musk can make them.Read more...
In just six months since Elon Musk paid $44 billion to purchase the Twitter in October last year, the company’s value has plunged by nearly two...
The US has harshly criticized Uganda over its recent legislation known as the Anti-Homosexuality Act.Read more...
The International Movie Database (IMDb) sensed something fishy with The Little Mermaid’s reviews and ratings.Read more...
Italian authorities have partially solved the mystery of the substance that changed the color of Venice’s canal water.Read more...
“The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” economist Milton Friedman wrote in his often-cited 1970 New York Times...
China’s first domestically built passenger jet flew its maiden commercial flight on Sunday (May 28), in what state media celebrated as the first...
The Turkish lira slipped to a fresh record low against the US dollar today (May 30), in reaction to the re-election of the country’s president...
Jensen Huang, the CEO and founder of Nvidia, is suddenly in the spotlight—and so is his leather jacket. Read more...
State Farm, the largest property insurer in the US, will no longer accept new applications for home insurance in California, citing the risks of...
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Mukesh Ambani’s JioCinema has turned its full force against Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video.Read more...
If you are a software developer, your profession may be nearing its end. Blame it on Nvidia’s new supercomputer.Read more...
Foxconn is raising pay and bonuses for new workers at its major Zhengzhou plant, the SCMP first reported, as the Apple supplier anticipates a ramp...
North Korea says it will attempt to launch a spy satellite sometime before June 11, after warning nearby Japan about potential rocket debris.Read...
ExxonMobil Corp. will face the heat on climate change at the oil giant’s annual shareholder meetings—scheduled for May 31—with activist...
California has become the first US state to ban food additives used in candies, cake mixes, and protein shakes, due to concerns linked to cancer...
In an open letter, dozens of industry experts have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to an extinction event. The letter was published...
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