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Microsoft briefly tops Apple as most valuable public company
Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Reuters Microsoft on Thursday briefly yanked the title of most valuable publicly traded company from Apple in early trading. But Apple returned to the top spot at market close. The development follows a series of obstacles Apple has encountered at the start of the year….
Emojis to the rescue? More are needed to address the biodiversity crisis, scientists say
Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A staggering 180,000 species of butterflies and moths flit about this planet, yet their lone emoji avatar is a generic blue butterfly that looks like…
Opinion: OpenAI’s drama marks a new and scary era in artificial intelligence
Sam Altman’s dismissal and rapid reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, confirms that the future of AI is firmly in the hands of people focused on speed and profits, at the expense of all else. This elite will now impose their vision for technology on the rest of humanity. Most of us…
SpaceX sues U.S. agency that accused it of firing workers critical of Elon Musk
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, looks on as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board that had accused the rocket and satellite maker of…
Bitcoin rises as its volatile year continues ahead of an expected ETF approval
Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin rose on Thursday, recovering some of its losses from the previous day, when the cryptocurrency sold off on concerns about the potential of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund approval that many expect as soon as next week. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by about 3% at $43,870.01,…
Here’s what you should do if your job gets cut
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save As 2024 gets rolling, companies are still cutting costs, with Google and Amazon being the latest big company to do layoffs. The near future could bring more. “We saw a big surge of hiring … when people went online in 2020,” said Brett House, professor…
