Alphabet is playing catch up with Microsoft in the AI chatbot field, but Google's parent company made a costly blunder in its haste. A Google ad shared on Twitter on Feb. 6 touting its ChatGPT rival Bard showed the chatbot giving an incorrect answer.(qz.com) | Continue reading
A Twitter has-been, an Elon Musk insider, or maybe Snoop Dogg? | Continue reading
The perfect grass for a soccer field is deep green and sharply striped, and mowed to the exact length-23mm-for optimal speed of play for the ball. Beyond that, features may vary. It takes teams of expert agronomists years of research and testing to determine the right grass for a … | Continue reading
Programming is not the only way to climb the Silicon Valley career ladder, and it's certainly the most lucrative. In fact, you might be better off being "non-technical." | Continue reading
Pfizer will charge as much as $130 for Comirnaty, which costs an estimated $1.18 per dose to produce | Continue reading
At the World Health Summit, the WHO director for health emergencies called out rich nations' greed for their role in covid vaccine inequity | Continue reading
RBI has imagined the e-rupee in two forms: wholesale for interbank settlements and retail for the public. | Continue reading
The drivers are a billion times bigger than the molecular machines they will be steering. | Continue reading
How good data, core hours, and being (kindly) clear can retain top talent | Continue reading
One Chinese economist thinks we'll see the rise of a "chip dollar, but others aren't so convinced | Continue reading
The magic figure is $7 billion, per Africa's venture capital group. | Continue reading
A new law mandates current and prospective employees be provided with a pay scale for their job upon request. | Continue reading
The Starlink network faces questions about free speech and telecom regulation | Continue reading
The US Fed and other central banks that aim for 2% inflation can thank Roger Douglas, a New Zealand finance minister who was put on the spot during a TV interview in 1988. | Continue reading
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Compared to the 112 last year, Emoji 15 is bound to have be the smallest number of new emoji since Unicode began getting vendors to standardize emoji on various platforms in 2015. | Continue reading
Joe Biden unveiled the most detailed image of the universe humans have ever created. | Continue reading
INSTC a multimodal transportation network of sea, road, and rail routes between Russia and India. | Continue reading
Children learn more if they're taught in their mother tongue. | Continue reading
Delta says Parallel Reality is an instant hit with passengers in Detroit. | Continue reading
A Congressional investigation report details how Robinhood staved off a default by getting DTCC waivers and raising capital. | Continue reading
With multiple blockbuster films banned from China but still doing well despite the pandemic, Hollywood studios are learning to live without the mainland Chinese film market. | Continue reading
The study shows that on average, 52% of Africa’s youth population want to emigrate but in Nigeria and Sudan, it’s three quarters of the population while in Angola and Malawi it’s two thirds. | Continue reading
A new analysis of Nobel Prize winners in economics discovered notable differences between young and old victors and their thinking. | Continue reading
"Accounting issues, onerous lending arrangements, and a constant need for cash are all in play," a report in the Ken says. | Continue reading
The US Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade is nearly identical to the draft opinion that first leaked in May. But one tiny revision in justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion is worth parsing because it reveals the problems with the interpretation of history proffered … | Continue reading
Most techies who have started a new job this year or are considering getting one prioritise high pay and flexible work. | Continue reading
The US Federal Reserve is now more committed to price stability than it is to maximum employment. | Continue reading
Democracy is a great thing, except in the workplace. | Continue reading
Automobiles in the US haven't run on leaded gasoline for decades. Why is it taking so long to get the lead out of fuel for small airplanes? With support from the Pulitzer Center, Quartz investigated the forces that have kept leaded aviation gasoline in use, exposing a new generat … | Continue reading
MicroStrategy is staring down a possible margin call on a recent loan to buy more bitcoin. | Continue reading
This still won't help India meet its ambitious targets. | Continue reading
17,000 workers got laid off from 71 tech startups globally in May after tech stocks crashed, startup investment slumped, and executives began cutting costs. | Continue reading
Helium Shortage 4.0 is once again the result of a handful of unexpected supply disruptions in the heavily concentrated helium production industry—and a disastrous 1996 US law. | Continue reading
Don't let employer complaints distract you from the jobs recovery | Continue reading
There's a wealth gap between who invests in crypto and who transacts with it | Continue reading
Even though the metaverse is a relatively new concept, everywhere including Africa, a handful of African virtual designers making digital outfits in preparation for the metaverse. | Continue reading
After Tuesday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and two adults dead, we wondered how difficult it was to order a DDM4V7, one of the two rifles the gunman bought a few days after turning 18 years old, according to reports. The answer: Five clicks.(qz.com) | Continue reading
After a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left at least 20 people dead, shares of gun and ammunition manufacturers have once again soared the morning following a mass shooting. | Continue reading
More than 250 million people will fall back into extreme poverty in 2022 | Continue reading
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Satellites and GPS are vulnerable to cyber attack. The tools of yesteryear are not. | Continue reading
Aspire Food Group is building the world's largest commercial cricket farm. | Continue reading
A privately owned Twitter could focus on subscriptions and creators. | Continue reading
CMA CGM will no longer accept plastic scrap onboard any of its ships. The ban is a milestone in the backlash against Western countries dumping plastic in China and southeast Asia. | Continue reading
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Vexillologists say that the decision may be short-sighted as interest in communicating with flags is growing. | Continue reading
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