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When do tech companies need to be consistently profitable?
The social media company Snap recently announced it’s laying off about 1,000 workers — 16% of its employees. The company said these changes will redu…
2 months, 1 week ago
News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a project of the Internet Archive. It sends out web crawlers to take snapshots of the internet, creating a digital library of …
2 months, 1 week ago
California buildings must limit "embodied carbon." Here's what that means
California became the first state to regulate embodied carbon in its building code. That’s changing the construction industry even beyond the state b…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bytes: Week in Review — AI companies divided over proposed state law, Amazon buys Globalstar, and Spotify to sell physical books
This week, Spotify is letting its users buy physical books. Plus, Amazon acquires the satellite service provide Globalstar. But first, state lawmaker…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
One way to avoid AI altogether? Retire early
The share of older workers is on the decline — about 37% of people age 55 and above are now active in the labor force. About a decade ago, it was aro…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How botnets infiltrate the internet of things
Routers, computers, web cameras — they all connect to the internet. And they can be infected with malicious software that lets someone else take over…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
States are getting crypto‑curious
State governments invest their money a lot like a person might. Some treasuries, some mutual funds, a dash of corporate bonds, all intended to grow o…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is “made by humans” the new premium label?
Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes was shopping recently with her seven-year-old who was drawn to a “Relaxolotl,” a tea infuser shaped like an axolotl. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bytes: Week in Review — Anthropic's new AI model, a referendum on data centers, and NASA livestreams journey to space
This week, a Wisconsin city votes to restrict future data center development. Plus, the astronauts on Artemis II take their journey to social media. …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Trust in government data practices is rapidly deteriorating
For years, consumers have worried about how the private sector — namely, big tech — handles their personal data. Now a new survey from the Center for…
2 months, 3 weeks ago