New submitter Darth Technoid shares a report from Electrek: At its AI Day, Tesla unveiled its Dojo supercomputer technology while flexing its growing in-house chip design talent. The automaker claims to have developed the fastest AI training machine in…
A Third of Stitch Fix Employees Quit After New CEO Ends Flexible Work Hours
Hundreds of workers at the personal styling service Stitch Fix have quit their jobs after incoming CEO Elizabeth Spaulding announced earlier this month that employees would no longer be allowed to work any hours they choose, according to interviews wit…
Hacker Selling Private Data Allegedly From 70 Million AT&T Customers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Restore Privacy: A well-known threat actor with a long list of previous breaches is selling private data that was allegedly collected from 70 million AT&T customers. We analyzed the data and found it to incl…
Why Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times, written by Tara Parker-Pope: Covid precautions have turned many parts of our world into a giant salad bar, with plastic barriers separating sales clerks from shoppers, dividing customers at n…
Coinbase To Invest 10% of All Future Profits In Crypto
According to a tweet from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the brokerage firm is planning to purchase more than $500 million worth of cryptocurrency on its balance sheet. It’s also going to be investing 10% of all future profits in crypto. The Block repor…
Elon Musk Reveals ‘Tesla Bot’, a Humanoid Robot Utilizing Tesla AI
At Tesla’s AI Day event, Elon Musk revealed a humanoid robot called Tesla Bot that utilizes the same artificial intelligence that powers the company’s autonomous vehicles. CNET reports: Musk revealed few details about the Slenderman-looking Tesla Bot o…
Microsoft Teases Windows 11 Update To MS Paint
On Twitter, Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay shared a teaser video for “the beautifully redesigned Paint app,” with the promise that Windows Insider Program members would be able to start testing the app for themselves in the near future. PC…
Vine’s Creator Is Now Working On NFT Blockchain Video Games
Dom Hofmann, one of Vine’s founders, has a new project called Supdrive. He calls it an “on-chain fantasy game console” that plays classic-style games with NFTs acting as a sort of virtual cartridge. The Verge reports: In a Discord set up for Supdrive, …
High-Speed Rail Proponents Make Another Push For Pacific Northwest Project
Three of every five voters in Oregon and Washington support a regional, high-speed rail line, according to a poll released by proponents of a proposed high-speed rail system to carry passengers from Eugene, Ore., to Vancouver, B.C. GeekWire reports: Th…
Your Credit Score Should Be Based On Your Web History, IMF Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper that examines the current relationship between finance and tech as well as its pote…