Airbnb is proposing a number of policy changes that governments and cities could adapt to improve remote work across the globe.
The home-rental platform released a white paper Thursday morning outlining steps that locations and lawmakers can take “to leverage the rise of remote work for their communities.” Recommendations include improving the visa process, encouraging visitor support of the local economy, and streamlining tax compliance.
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Robot dogs are getting smarter.
In early demos, robot dogs debuted as “pack mules,” and were shown carrying soldiers’ payloads during forest treks. As they have become commercialized, new upgrades have given robot dogs sensors, color cameras, increased mobility, and surveillance-enhancing features.These new capabilities have further piqued the interest of both federal and local law enforce
Walmart shoppers will now be able to virtually try on clothes without leaving home.
A new feature, rolled out on Thursday in Walmart’s iOS app, uses photos that customers upload to show how clothing will look on their bodies. The technology, called Be Your Own Model, utilizes machine learning technology and does more than just superimpose images of garments on potential buyers. “We don’t want it to look like a paper doll,” says Denise Incandela, EVP of
Proof-of-stake is a mechanism for achieving consensus on a blockchain. Blockchain is a technology that records transactions that can’t be deleted or altered. It’s a decentralized database, or ledger, that is under no one person or organization’s control. Since no one controls the database, consensus mechanisms, such as proof-of-stake, are needed to coordinate the operation of blockchain-based systems.
It is one of the laws of tech that you can never find the right cable when you need it. What should be simple–pretty much every device you connect to your computer or phone uses a USB cable, so you’d expect there to be a universal cable–is instead a complete train wreck.
USB is a confusing scrabble of different port types, cable speeds, and hideously long names. I have a huge pile of USB ca
Since the beginning of 2022, the tech industry has laid off more than 78,000 employees, according to tracker Layoffs
Last week, with much of the world focused on the passing of Queen Elizabeth, the Federal Trade Commission
During NFT NYC this past June, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian made a surprise remote appearance to announce the latest company for which his VC firm 776 opened a lead round of funding–a company that he said would “set all kinds of standards” in what blockchain technology can do and has the
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Humanity is facing many challenges, from human rights to pandemics to climate change, and AI can be our best tool against them, says Alexandr Wang, CEO and founder of Scale AI. “That’s what we dedicated Scale to: How do we enable the most ambitious organizations in the world to utilize artificial intelligence to solve the most transformational problems today?”
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Josh O’Kane spent more than two years covering Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs’s controversial “smart city” in Toronto for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s most widely read national newspaper. On September 13, Penguin Random House publishes Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, his book revealing the