Why so many people dislike Uber

A large AI-assisted sentiment analysis shows that Uber is among the least-loved brands among consumers.

The study, conducted in 2021 by the branding agency MBLM, analyzed the use of more than 1.4 billion keywords on various social media channels to measure consumers’ emotional connection with known-name brands across 19 industries. Since April, the agency has been gradually rel

Ariel Ekblaw explains the future of space stations

Humanity has dreamed about different visions of what a civilization in space might look like for longer than most of us have been alive.

We’ve been planning ways to sustain human life in orbit and on other planets for decades. Now, it feels like we’re within reach of that goal—and we need to be ready for it.

The newly formed Aurelia Institute

Meta makes another big move to distance its metaverse from Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg is putting some more distance between his most famous creation and his big bet on the future.

On Thursday, Zuckerberg announced that starting next month, users of the

We’re still stuck in a semiconductor shortage, but the secondary market can help

Supply-chain bottlenecks and the shift by consumers during the past 27 months to goods from services have combined to create the worldwide semiconductor shortage. A combination of high demand and the projected long-term dearth of chips is particularly pronounced regarding silicon wafers that are 200 millimeters in diameter. Those chips are vital components in things consumers everywhere use daily, such as cars, personal computers,

Waymo and Uber are pressuring California to lift its ban on larger self-driving trucks

A group of autonomous vehicle developers are pressuring California lawmakers to introduce a regulatory process that would eventually allow autonomous trucks on public roads.

Thirty-five autonomous vehicle lea

Apple aims to thwart NSO spyware with new iPhone ‘Lockdown Mode’

For years, Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group’s software has been used to track government officials, journalists, and human rights activists, according to a consortium of journalists and Amnesty International. That’s despite the company’s assurances it only sells its spyware to the good guys—law enforcement agencies that use it to help catc

CERN Large Hadron Collider: What have physicists found and what are they looking for next?

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they said on Tuesday.

The observation of the particles—a new type of pentaquark and the first duo of tetraquarks—came on a momentous day at CERN, the Geneva lab, which on Tuesday also fired up its Large Hadron Collider again, after a three-year hiatus, with the machine&#x201

These malware-infected apps for Android could secretly run up your phone bill

Android owners might want to check their phones. A cyber security company has discovered a handful of apps that embed Joker malware on Android phones. So far, over 100,000 people have installed the software.

Pradeo, in a blog post Tuesday

Cut way down on spam calls in 3 simple steps

It’s 2022, and not only have we not licked the problem of bogus phone calls, they actually seem to be getting worse.

But while no call-blocking solution is 100% foolproof, doing these three things can work wonders for cutting way, way down on the number of unwanted calls you’ll get.


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