Cybersecurity expert says advancements in AI will increase cyber threats in 2024

Customer service has become a huge problem in this country. Just ask … literally anyone. But why is customer service so bad?  First of all, labor shortage. Especially since the pandemic, it’s hard to find people to fill these jobs. The average call-center worker quits after 18 months. Then there’s consolidation. Corporate mergers of airlines,…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The newsletter platform Substack rose to prominence with a permissive approach to online speech, attracting big-name writers who felt “canceled” by the mainstream media for their conservative or libertarian rhetoric. Criticized in December for tolerating Nazis and white supremacists on its platform, Substack doubled down,…

Customers carry their purchases as they leave the U.K.’s first branch of Amazon Fresh in the Ealing area of London, England, on March 4, 2021. Leon Neal | Getty Images Amazon is pitching its cashierless checkout technology to hospitals and other health-care facilities. The company on Thursday said the latest version of its Just Walk…

Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Wednesday was accused by a US labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling founder and CEO Elon Musk a “distraction and embarrassment.” A regional official with the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint claiming SpaceX violated the workers’ rights under federal labor law to band…

The same day as the story’s publication, the university launched an investigation into Tessier-Lavigne’s research and the seven years of alleged scientific misconduct detailed in the Stanford Daily’s story.  “It was pretty astonishing,” Stanford Daily editor-in-chief Sam Catania said. “I can’t say I was expecting the board of trustees to act quickly.” But the launch…

President Bukele is celebrating as his $120m Bitcoin reserve is finally in the black – but economists are not.