Amazon has cut 57,000 jobs, and the people who kept theirs are not fine either
Amazon’s cuts have reached a scale that is hard to absorb. The company has laid off more than 57,000 corporate staff since 2022, around 16%
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While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear
The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo
8 Linux Handheld Computers You Can Splurge On
As consumers, we are used to correlating handhelds with the big names like Valve’s Steam Deck, Lenovo’s Legion Go, and ASUS’ ROG Ally. But these
You Can Now Craft E-Ink Faceplates for the Steam Machine
The Steam Machine’s swappable front panel just got a very useful upgrade that Valve has put out for free under an MIT License. Called the
Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.
Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week
The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model
For years the industry ran on one assumption, that the biggest model wins. That belief is now breaking down, CNBC reports. Companies are choosing models by
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features
NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations
NASA this week released a much-anticipated document, known as a “draft Request for Proposals,” that provides some clarity about what it expects from US companies
AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it
The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired
Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.
The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by
Ubisoft is in crisis, and a 13-year-old pirate game is part of the escape plan
Ubisoft has remade the best-loved game in its biggest franchise. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives 13 years after the original, and the BBC found it
Netflix is reportedly considering always-on channels and bundles, which is to say, cable
Netflix executives have reportedly discussed adding always-on live channels to the service. The channels would run genre-based programming around the clock, all comedies or all
The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and time around with it in