Tag: technology
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North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed in front of hundreds of students at an outdoor stadium. It also shows uniformed officers reprimanding the…
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Science fiction: double feature
A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what? What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation Oh, the guardian, how I used to value you. Atrociously back to basics coverage on two educational issues which, quite literally, promote philistinism. Technology is a tool. A ubiquitous tool in the…
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Google layoffs continue with ‘hundreds’ from sales team
After laying off about 1,000 employees last week, Google is now cutting jobs on its advertising sales team. In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Chris Pappas confirmed that “a few hundred roles globally are being eliminated” as part of the change. The news of Google’s latest layoffs was first reported by Business Insider, which obtained a…
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More CEOs fear their companies won’t survive 10 years as AI and climate challenges grow, survey says
More executives are feeling better about the global economy, but a growing number don’t think their companies will survive the coming decade without a major overhaul because of pressure from climate change and technology like artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of CEOs by one of the world’s largest consulting firms, PwC. The survey…
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Tesla pauses German production after Red Sea shipping attacks
The electric car manufacturer Tesla is to halt most production at its factory near Berlin for two weeks because of delays in deliveries of parts because of attacks on ships in the Red Sea. Shipping delays in the Red Sea, caused by attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants, has caused Tesla to suspend most production at its German…
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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
The X accounts of several prominent journalists and leftist pundits were suspended from the site, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday morning with no clear explanation. The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page…
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Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI may face EU scrutiny, officials say
Microsoft is the largest minority investor in OpenAI Global LLC, a “capped profit” subsidiary company that is controlled by OpenAI Inc, the non-profit majority owner of the organisation. Its investment, given in the form of cloud-computing credits as well as cash, officially gives it no control of the company itself, but the possibility of a…
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Apple Could Soon Face ‘Sweeping’ U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
Taking a break from world news. So I’ve been an all Apple person since 2004 and this screams jealousy from android users rather than an actual antitrust? Apple devices are not a meaningfully large majority of human consumers for this to even register as anticompetitive. But sure I guess the biggest problem for US regulators…