The firm’s agreement to buy 100,000 cars from Elon Musk’s company could change people’s minds about EVs for good On Tuesday, Hertz, the car-rental firm that recently emerged from bankruptcy, announced that it had made a deal to buy 100,000 cars from Tesla for what knowledgeable sources estimate to be worth $4bn. On learning this, …
The explosive documents from Frances Haugen have renewed calls for legislation, but actually passing it is another story It’s been a rocky few weeks for the company formerly known as Facebook. First came the Facebook papers, a series of blockbuster reports in the Wall Street Journal based on a cache of internal documents leaked by …
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Google’s Street View helps us navigate the world, but it’s also a portal on forgotten places and secret moments I am leaning against a wall outside my secondary school in my home town of Canterbury, waiting for my mother to pick me up. She is late, as usual. I rest my head on the stone …
Zuckerberg wants us to all turn our attention to a land of make-believe to distract from his PR disaster while Bezos and Musk are obsessed with leaving the planet On Thursday Facebook announced a groundbreaking and innovative new distraction from their PR disaster. As journalists continue to pore over thousands of leaked documents that show …
A startup called Reef wants to un-clog city streets and deliver food to your door via robot A robot the size of a small cooler sits on the sun-soaked fake grass in a segment of parking lot close to Brickell, Miami – the city’s shiny-towered financial district overlooking Biscayne Bay. Nicknamed “Reefy”, the electric-powered autonomous …
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Rebrand mocked under hashtag #FacebookDead while Canadian firm’s shares get unexpected boost Facebook’s name change has been roundly mocked on social media, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Israel: Meta sounds like the Hebrew word for “dead”. As images of Facebook’s name superimposed on a tombstone were shared online, Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt, a tech …
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Major involvement in launch of Meta could saddle it with baggage from founder’s primary venture Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said. Facebook’s CEO announced the change on Thursday, revealing that …
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Leaked papers detail emergency exercise that followed 2019 mass murder in New Zealand Facebook trained its artificial intelligence systems to detect and block any future attempt to livestream a shooting spree with “police/military body cams footage,” and other violent material, in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attack. The emergency exercise – detailed in corporate …
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Data protection advocate Mariano delli Santi on whether we should worry about targeted advertising We all believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Well, a little bit. That’s according to a Norwegian professor who recently argued that conspiratorial thinking spans everything from 5G theories to believing the referee really is against your team. Mine? I …
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest Meta morphosis fills me a deep sense of dread. And some companies are too toxic to rebrand “Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful …
