John Carmack Will Have Unscripted Talk Inside VR For Connect
One of Facebook’s leading technical guides in virtual reality, John Carmack, confirmed he’s still spending one day per week consulting for Meta. He’ll also have an...
GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80 vehicles after two people were injured...
Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button
Another issue naysayers are likely to have with Twitter’s edit feature as currently designed is that it initially hides the context of what was changed from...
Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound similar to her previous masculine name?...
Behind Google Worker Protests of an Israeli Government Cloud Deal
Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government, announced her resignation yesterday. The Jewish...
A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low...
Driving Toward the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under pressure to...
Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In late 1969, Daniel Ellsberg made a...
Europe Set Itself Up for This Energy Crisis
Bros says that the situation we face is not a market failure, but a regulatory one. Bros was involved in the liberalization of the French market...
Satellites Show the Alarming Extent of Russian Detention Camps
A day after the six-month anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine, a new report reveals never before seen information about Russia’s filtration camp...