A look at the face off between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land in South Africa
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg : Tweets: @loniprinsloo1 , @quicktake , and @atbwebb Tweets: Loni Prinsloo / @loniprinsloo1 : Drone and video footage of the site where Amazon is building its new African he...
LinkedIn profiles show TikTok has hired over 190 European content moderators from Accenture and others since January 2021, as its European business explodes
Short-form video app hires hundreds to help curb spread of harmful content — TikTok has poached hundreds of content moderators … Tweets: @j_k9 , @atbwebb , @mattnavarra , @muradahmed , and @cristina...
Analysis: competitors are gaining on Huawei and Apple in the 5G equipment and handset markets; US is catching up fast to China in 5G subscriptions per capita
The competition among equipment makers, countries and cellphone companies is heated. Here are the leaders in each of those races. Tweets: @meghanbobrowsky , @atbwebb , @chinarealtime , @edourdooo , @...
Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with as late as 2018, via chips with backdoors sending data to China
It has been two and a half years since … John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Bloomberg, at Long Last, Follows up on ‘The Big Hack’, and It's Nothing but a Pile of Sophistic Horseshit Thom Holwerda / OSnew...
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016
it hasn't Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Elon Musk: Tesla is close to achieving basic level 5 autonomy for its cars VentureBeat : Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomous driving Chin...
Global Disinformation Index study: websites spreading COVID-19 misinfo will get at least $25M this year from ad platforms run by Google, Amazon, and others
Maya Tribbitt / Bloomberg : Tweets: @atbwebb Tweets: Alex Webb / @atbwebb : Perhaps the most depressing thing about this story is that it's not at all surprising. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Profile of Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer whose Swiss startup Nnaisense is working on developing an artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Jürgen Schmidhuber says he'll make machines smarter than us. His peers wish he'd just shut up. Tweets: @roydanroy , @muellerfreitag , @valleyhack , @atbwebb , and @mark_riedl Tweets: Daniel Roy / @ro...
Apple apologizes for inadequately communicating battery management practices that slowed down iPhones with older batteries, will offer $29 battery replacements
and Its Strengths John Keefer / Neowin : iFixit matches Apple's $29 battery swap deal, adds older iPhones, as well Mike Snider / USA Today : Is your iPhone battery causing your smartphone to run slowl...
Google last month quietly acquired Undecidable Labs, a startup providing purchase research to online shoppers, hired founder Cathy Edwards to head Image Search
Undecidable Labs, a startup founded by a former Apple engineer, is now part of Google's search team. — Alex Webb