The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body
As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can't come soon enough. X: @seankinneyrcr , @wired , @wired , @ieeefuturedir , @seankirmani , an...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@toot.cafe X: @a_greenbe...
A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. Threads: @mattnavarra . X: @jackmjenkins , @katiedrumm , @kylebruss...
Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets
Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it's setting impossible targets and then abandoning them. X: @varshaabansal , @peterguest , @ashiqueali...
Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed
its failure will have a large impact Alexa Mikhail / Fortune : ‘You can lose everything’: How founders' mental health also collapsed with SVB's downfall Paul Gompers / HBR.org : Silicon Valley Bank's ...
Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel on AI's ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation trade-offs, and more
an opinion that makes her a bit of a contrarian in 2022. https://www.wired.com/... Jennifer Conrad / @jenniferconrad : Can machines be fairer than humans? Maybe. My interview with @OrlyLobel for @WIRE...
Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel about AI's ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation, and more
an opinion that makes her a bit of a contrarian in 2022. https://www.wired.com/... Jennifer Conrad / @jenniferconrad : Can machines be fairer than humans? Maybe. My interview with @OrlyLobel for @WIRE...
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @rstephens , @...
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he's got a vision for where the pixel will take us next. Tweets: @stevenbjohnson , @stevenlev...
Revolut employees say 50+ staff in Poland and Portugal were given the choice of being terminated or receiving severance if they left by “mutual agreement”
Emiliano Mellino / WIRED UK : Tweets: @mellino , @sharonodea , @jtemperton , @chris_skinner , and @martinsfp Tweets: Emiliano Mellino / @mellino : We tend to forget that the bulk of the jobs in the n...