Thousands of workers in organized Starbucks stores across the country will go on strike over the coming week, their union said Friday, after workers in… Read More »Starbucks Union steps up pressure with plan to discontinue Pride decor
Enlarge / A PC with Windows 11. This week’s Dev Channel Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 11 adds another handful of useful and/or interesting… Read More »Windows 11 preview adds better passkey support, reverts File Explorer changes
Union film and television directors on Friday approved a new three-year contract with Hollywood studios, with 87 percent voting in favour. The Directors Guild of… Read More »Hollywood directors ratify their contract
Two of the world’s richest and most influential men, who happen to run rival social media networks, seemed to push each other into agreeing to… Read More »Elon Musk presents ‘Cage Match’ with Mark Zuckerberg
The North Sea has long been host to some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and hundreds of oil and natural gas production platforms. Now,… Read More »North Sea sees potential shift from oil and gas to renewable energy sources
Police in the UK are seeing a “record number” of fake calls to 999, the UK’s emergency services number, and the culprit is apparently Android.… Read More »Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with fake calls
Over the past two decades, dozens of behavioral scientists have come to the fore in pointing to the power of small interventions to improve well-being.… Read More »Harvard dishonesty expert Francesca Gino is accused of fraud
I married my wife last October in a backyard wedding my parents hosted and covered for $5,000. My wife’s mother gave us an equivalent honeymoon… Read More »How people in the Queer community feel about personal finance
In Toronto, a candidate for this week’s mayoral election vowing to clear out homeless camps has released a series of campaign promises illustrated by artificial… Read More »The use of AI in elections is causing a battle over guardrails
The first time we speak, Joep Meindertsma is not in a good place. He bursts into tears as he describes a conversation in which he… Read More »Meet Pause AI, the protest group campaigning against human extinction
Enlarge / With Midjourney 5.2 you can “zoom out” on synthesized images. The original synthetic image is shown here in the red dotted box. Half… Read More »“Amazing” – Midjourney update stuns AI performers with camera-like feature
The downpour began in late May and drenched wheat crops in central China. When the wheat grains turned black in the rain and became unfit… Read More »Extreme flooding and heat in China destroy farms and kill animals
Canada’s parliament passed a law requiring tech companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the owner of Facebook and Instagram… Read More »Canada’s Online News Act targets Facebook and Google
Enlarge / This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first direct… Read More »X-ray “light echoes” indicate an outburst of the Milky Way’s central black hole
Last week, the Federal Reserve postponed raising rates after 10 consecutive hikes, instead waiting to see how the economy has reacted to the sharp rise… Read More »Stock market rally pauses as investors follow Fed signal
