World’s richest person to take questions from employees amid concerns over attempted takeover Elon Musk will speak to Twitter employees this week for the first time since launching his $44bn (£36bn) bid in April, a source said on Monday, citing an email from Twitter chief executive, Parag Agrawal, to staff. The meeting is scheduled for …
Elon Musk to hold first meeting with Twitter staff since $44bn bid Read More »
Consortium plans to adapt turboprop aircraft with 40-80 seats to run on environmentally friendly fuel The world’s first hydrogen-fuelled commercial flight of a passenger plane could take place between Rotterdam and London in six years’ time, under a plan to make short-haul air travel more environmentally friendly. The 2028 target set by a Dutch consortium …
Dutch group targets hydrogen-fuelled commercial flight in 2028 Read More »
More than 100 of the coffee shop’s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it In a historic win in December, baristas in Buffalo voted to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at …
Why is Starbucks’ union drive speeding ahead while Amazon’s founders? Read More »
The Last Week Tonight host examined Google, Amazon and Apple and efforts to address ‘anti-competitive conduct’ John Oliver has called out “anti-competitive conduct” of big tech, urging bipartisan support of bills that would help curb such behaviour. On Last Week Tonight, the host said that “our experiences on the internet are now dominated by a …
John Oliver on big tech: ‘Ending a monopoly is almost always a good thing’ Read More »
Blake Lemoine claims of sentience for artificial intelligence bot described as ‘ball of confusion’ by Steven Pinker The suspended Google software engineer at the center of claims that the search engine’s artificial intelligence language tool LaMDA is sentient has said the technology is “intensely worried that people are going to be afraid of it and …
Google engineer says AI bot wants to ‘serve humanity’ but experts dismissive Read More »
Transfers also ‘paused’ between Celsius accounts as value of digital asset market slips below $1tn The cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has halted withdrawals because of “extreme market conditions” as the value of the digital asset market slipped below $1tn (£820bn). Bitcoin dropped to a 17-month low of $23,880 after the Celsius announcement, while Ether, …
Crypto lender Celsius halts withdrawals due to ‘extreme market conditions’ Read More »
The rising price of electricity and the plunging value of the cryptocurrency could burst the speculative bubble for today’s prospectors In the bad old days, prospecting for gold was a grisly business involving hysterical crowds, pickaxes, digging, the wearing of appalling hats, standing in rivers panning for nuggets, “staking” claims and so on. The California …
As energy prices soar, the bitcoin miners may have struck fool’s gold | John Naughton Read More »
Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit As worker shortages are felt across the hospitality sector, the owners of the Bella Italia chain are turning to robots to provide table service to customers. Big Table Group, which also owns Café Rouge and Las Iguanas, is testing out the …
Not-so dumb waiter: UK restaurant chain Bella Italia trials robot service Read More »
From music on the go to GPS watches and apps such as Strava, tech to help you clock up the miles Running is a great way to keep fit this summer and needs little more than some trainers and a pavement or a park. But even the most enthusiastic of us need some way to …
Best running gear: top gadgets to keep you motivated Read More »
Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child The suspension of a Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has put new scrutiny on the capacity of, and …
Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient Read More »
