From PC Mag: Uber and Lyft are now required to pay drivers in the state of Massachusetts $32.50 an hour and provide them with company-sponsored benefits.
In 2020, Attorney General Andrea Campbell sued the companies, claiming that drivers should be considered employees. They've now settled and...
Leading a group of friends may not be an everyday issue, but it is something I have thought about. Generally, most of your friends are your peers and there is no designated leader. You might think age would play a role, but I believe personality has a bigger impact in distinguishing the alpha in a pack of companions. As such, when planning a get-together or hangout, it often falls on this person to carry the bulk of planning and coordinating. In...
It is always interesting to see an artist venture outside of their comfort zone and try something new. This, of course, can be an actor or director trying a different movie genre, or a music artist trying a different music genre as well. One example that sits in my memory is when Lupita Nyong'o starred in the horror movie Us. Lupita Nyong'o was always known more for dramatic movies up to that point, and while Us certainly required dramatic acting...
From Tom's Hardware: On June 26, Hori announced an officially Valve-licensed Hori Steam controller to launch in Japan on October 31, in four colors, at a price point of ¥7980, or roughly $50. The available colors include Neon Yellow, Luminous Violet, Shiny White, and Midnight Black. As the yen...
From The Verge: On Friday the Supreme Court overturned a longstanding legal doctrine in the US, making a transformative ruling that could hamper federal agencies’ ability to regulate all kinds of industry. Six Republican-appointed justices voted to overturn the doctrine, called Chevron deference...
From PC Mag: Amazon Web Services is investigating Perplexity AI over its data-scraping practices after multiple news outlets, including Forbes and Wired, reported that the AI startup is swiping their web archives to train its models without consent or compensation.
An AWS rep confirmed Thursday...
From PC World: Recently Apple reversed a long-standing policy that disallowed retro game emulator apps, so now gamers have access to decades of classic ROMs on the iPhone and iPad without work-arounds. But it appears that tolerance does not extend to emulating classic PC platforms, for games or any...
From CNET: The Galaxy S24 series arrived in January, bringing a first glimpse of the company's big AI push. But we're still expecting several major new mobile products from Samsung in 2024, such as the Galaxy Ring and new foldable phones, all of which are likely to embrace AI in one way or another....
From PC Mag: Google is adding 110 new languages to Google Translate, bringing its total number of supported languages to 243.
The key to this achievement? AI, of course. The company's PaLM 2 AI model "was a key piece to the puzzle, helping Translate more efficiently learn languages that are closely...
From PC Mag: Reddit is updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt file, to try to block bots and web crawlers from swiping data and content from its site.
Reddit says "good faith actors" like the Internet Archive will continue to have access to its platform, however, and adds that most...
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