How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore

Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. Th [...]

Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Every new gadget you buy comes at a cost to your wallet, but there’s a hefty environmental price to pay as well. Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and [...]

What’s going on with Donut Lab?

In January, a Finnish-Estonian startup proclaimed it had developed a truly solid state battery, a holy grail for the technology industry. Donut Labs’ cell wasn’t just solid state, however. It clai [...]

Initial jobless claims fell to 187,000 last week, the lowest level this year

The 22,000-claim drop from the prior week was the largest single-week decline in months, pushing the 4-week average down to 207,500 [...]

Google's 'Watch & Learn' framework cracks the data bottleneck for training computer-use agents

A new framework developed by researchers at Google Cloud and DeepMind aims to address one of the key challenges of developing computer use agents (CUAs): Gathering high-quality training examples at sc [...]

Jobless claims rose to 197,000 last week, up 9,000 from the prior week

The four-week moving average for initial claims fell to 202,750, down 5,000 from the prior week's revised average [...]

U.S. jobless claims dipped to 226,000 last week, edging above forecasts

The four-week moving average climbed to 223,250, while continuing claims rose to 1.81 million for the week ended June 6 [...]

US jobless claims dip to 206,000, though 4-week average climbs

Initial claims fell by 6,000 in the week ending Aug. 15, but the 4-week moving average rose to 204,000 [...]