The A.I. Election, Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut and TikTok’s Doodad Era
“Two truly terrible ways to make money this week.”
“Two truly terrible ways to make money this week.”
Billionaire Elon Musk took to social media to express his agreement with a fellow tech leader’s prediction that there will be about 1 billion humanoid robots on Earth in two decades. Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to concur with the prediction made by David Holz, the founder of artificial intelligence (AI) research lab Midjourney. Holz said in…
Mark Zuckerberg has kept relatively mum about antisemitism at Harvard — but he’s expected to break his silence on Friday as he endorses a Silicon Valley mogul to join a powerful panel that supervises the embattled Ivy League university, On The Money has learned. Sam Lessin — a tech investor and former Facebook employee who…
Story highlights Japan’s innovative wearable devices includes Archelis, a “standing” chair designed for surgeons. Tokyo’s first Wearable Expo debuted in 2015 and was largest in the world. Japan’s wearable tech market is predicted to grow from 530,000 in 2013 to 13.1 million units in 2017. CNN — What do Discman, Tamagotchi, and Game Boy have…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned employees that more layoffs are needed this year in order to reach a “ambitious goals” — one day after the search giant slashed “several hundred” workers from its ad sales team. In a Wednesday evening memo titled “2024 priorities and the year ahead,” Pichai told Google staffers, “We have ambitious…
Have your Sunday scaries ever given way to a “Nervous Ocean Monday Morning”? Does the weekend truly begin on Friday, or on a “Wild and Free Chaotic Thursday Afternoon”? How should one dress for a “Paranormal Dark Cabaret Evening”? Those odd strings of words are titles of “daylists,” a newish offering from the music-streaming giant…
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a Texas lawsuit accusing the Facebook and Instagram parent of using facial recognition technology without customer consent. A Texas state appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision requiring Zuckerberg to give testimony in the case. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2022, accused Meta of “secretly…