A few years ago, Shannon Vallor found herself in front of Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor’s hulking mercury drop of a sculpture, better known as the Bean, in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Staring into its shiny mirrored surface, she noticed something.
“I was seeing how it reflected not only the shapes of individual people, but big crowds, and even larger human structures like the Chicago skyline,” she recalls, “but also that these were distorted—some magnified, others shrunk or twi
A huge shift in social media is underway: People are leaving X while millions have flocked to Bluesky, a new upstart powered by a tiny 20-person team. Bluesky’s COO, Rose Wang, addresses this inflection point as dissatisfaction with major platforms continues to grow. Wang emphasizes that Bluesky isn’t merely an X clone, or a haven for liberals, but rather a key player in
In the modern world we are all constantly connected, but this comes with risks. As most cybersecurity specialists will tell you, the biggest vulnerability in any system is the user—whether at home or work.
The most common ways in which hackers break into systems are via attacks on users such as phishing, rather than by breaching tec
General Motors is pulling funding from robotaxi company Cruise in order to focus on its own autonomous and assisted driving systems.
“Consistent with GM’s capital allocation priorities, GM will no longer fund Cruise’s robotaxi development work given the considerable time and resources that would be needed to scale the business, along with an increasingly competitive robotaxi market,” GM said in a press release.
GM said it will fold Cruise employees into exis
As businesses continue to integrate generative AI into their products, many find it challenging to actually test whether the AI is behaving correctly and giving useful answers.
To help address this problem, a startup called Gentrace offers an integrated platform for testing software built around large language models. Whereas traditional software that can be subjected to automated tests to ve
A contractor hired by Facebook’s parent company Meta dismissed threats to content moderators by Ethiopian rebels angered by their work, according to new evidence filed in a case challenging the dismissal of dozens of moderators in Kenya.
Last year 185 content moderators sued Meta and two contractors, saying they had lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm co
If you’ve spent any time on TikTok in the past few days, you’ve probably come across the viral olive oil story. If you haven’t, strap in.
The latest trend on the platform sees people sharing their wildest stories over a slideshow of images of Pepe the King Prawn soundtracked to Like A Prayer. One particular TikTok from the trend was posted by Megan Chacalos (@meganchacalos), who has sinc
California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday.
The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessar
Attorneys for Meta shareholders asked a Delaware judge Monday to sanction the company’s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and fellow Facebook board member and current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients for deleting emails related to the
Donald Trump’s first electoral victory forever changed the culture inside big tech firms. What had been nascent worker organizing efforts turned into mass movements to protest their companies’ politics, environmental practices, treatment of contract workers, handling of harassment cases, and more. Trump’s return to office can challenge efforts to grow the movement beyond fledgling n