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Figma is betting its AI can make meetings less terrible—even without Adobe’s backingBy now, we’ve all heard the worries about artificial intelligence replacing workers and laying siege to entire industries (if not the world...
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Women outnumber men on the East Coast, especially these 6 citiesAnyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from...
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Brightline’s new Las Vegas train line could be the start of a U.S. high-speed rail revolutionLast week marked such a monumental milestone for high-speed rail that the railfan-in-chief can be forgiven for a bit of hyperbole. “At...
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Former Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass will take over leadership of Levi’s from Chip Bergh in JanuaryLevi Strauss & Co. said Thursday that its CEO will step down in January and hand over the reigns of the jeans maker to his appointed...
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Why Disney Plus’s new Hulu integration was such a huge, high-stakes challengeFour years ago, The Walt Disney Co. seized control of its streaming destiny. Instead of continuing to provide content to the likes of Netflix,...
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Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines hope mega-merger will help them compete with the Big FourAlaska Airlines agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal announced Sunday, potentially putting it on track for a clash with a Biden...
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Google Maps’ new colors: a hopeful sign of more changes to comeNo one hates change like app users, and the latest changes that Google has made to the colors in its Google Maps app are ruffling users’...
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TikTok age progression: How to get the viral ‘time travel’ filter that Gen Z is obsessed withBack when I was in the age range that Gen Z is now, it seemed impossible to imagine that I, too, would one day be old. I couldn’t even...
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6 things to know about Mira Murati, the most interesting person in tech right nowChatGPT and Dall-E might get the lion’s share of the spotlight, but Mira Murati may be the real star of OpenAI. Murati is the chief...
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Chick-fil-A nears $19 billion in sales: Inside the evolution of a controversial brand“Are we boycotting Chick-fil-A over this?” a podcaster named Joey Mannarino asked his followers on Twitter last May, accusing the...
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Tech and media layoffs November update: Job cuts keep coming at ByteDance, Vice, Amazon, FaireUpdate Tuesday, November 28: November has shaped up to be a particularly rough month for tech companies, as layoffs have continued through...
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OpenAI nearly blew up its $80 billion company. But was the issue its board was reportedly arguing over really the right one?On Tuesday night, OpenAI announced that it had reached an agreement in principle for cofounder and recently ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to the...
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Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI enters uncharted territory“I’ve known Sam for a long time.” That was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last June, telling me the origin story of how his...
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The latest OpenAI drama: Sam Altman could return as CEOSam Altman, who has rapidly become a household name for his work on ChatGPT, was pushed out of OpenAI on Friday. But that doesn’t mean the...
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Elon Musk biopic: Darren Aronofsky is the perfect director for A24’s film, but now comes the hard partElon Musk seems to be everywhere, so why not on the big screen, too? That’s where audiences will find him, or at least a version of him,...
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7 pressing questions on Sam Altman’s ouster by ChatGPT-maker OpenAIOpenAI is in the midst of a leadership crisis. The company’s board of directors ousted CEO Sam Altman Friday. The company’s...
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How MKBHD became a BFD: A timeline of Marques Brownlee’s career-making YouTube videosIf you’d like to see for yourself how Marques Brownlee mastered the art of explaining consumer technology in YouTube videos, it’s...
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A Mayo Clinic doctor redesigned the surgical gown to make operating less chaoticIf you’ve ever undergone surgery, you understand how chaotic the operating theater can be. During both of my C-sections, I remember a tiny...
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We spent a week letting AI bots handle our emails and meetings. It didn’t go as plannedThere are hundreds of thousands of AI tools available for workplace tasks, with more coming on the market everyday. Automation and AI is already...
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms extends a winning streak for social media advertising in Q3Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been on a tear for the past year and continued its strong performance in the...
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Okta hacked: Here’s the latest on the cybersecurity breach, impact on 1Password, and moreLast week, identity and access management company Okta disclosed a hack of its support system, an incident that has now knocked more than $2...
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Meta’s plan to charge users for Facebook access is a big ‘FU’ to the EUThere’s a truism in tech that goes something like “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”...
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Tech layoffs continue as Nokia announces plan to cut up to 14,000 jobsAny hope that fall 2023 wouldn’t be a repeat of the layoffs that struck the tech industry over last winter and spring seems to be...
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Issa Rae talks launching her own prosecco and building a creative empireActor, writer, and entrepreneur Issa Rae rose to fame through her popular YouTube show, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. Since...
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Sam Bankman-Fried faces another rough day of testimonyA glimpse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s well-populated calendar, in the months before FTX’s crash—and, according to testimony, well...
