Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and is licensing some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's
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A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, which is carving out a path to spin off projects as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation
more of a focus on financial success these days, plus Google looks more like a conservative incumbent than out-of-the-box innovator. https://www.bloomberg.com/... #Google Max Chafkin / @chafkin : this...
Human smugglers are using Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and WhatsApp to recruit a new generation of coyotes to transport migrants from Mexico to the US
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Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API
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Google lays off most of its Area 120 incubator team and plans to graduate three projects in 2023; sources: Google cut virtually all staff not on the projects
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Research: the US tech industry shed 9,587 jobs in October, the highest since November 2020; in 2022, 104K+ startup workers have lost jobs, up from 81K in 2020
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NLRB complaints: the Alphabet Workers Union says some contract workers were fired for supporting a union or faced retaliation after pushing for better benefits
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A look at Verily's opioid addiction rehab clinic in Dayton, Ohio, which was meant to highlight a futuristic approach but went low-tech to treat ~5,200 patients
Christopher Boggs started smoking pot in his teens, moved on to cocaine, and finally settled on opioids, which allowed him to evade … Tweets: @miller7 , @jenn_elias , @mhbergen , and @byjulialove Twee...
A look at Truth Social's content moderation issues: inconsistent decisions, filtering innocuous posts, and calls to violence after the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
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A group of 34 QA testers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software vote to unionize with the CWA, and ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union status
Mission Statement Game Workers Alliance is a movement formed and maintained … Kari Paul / The Guardian : Activision Blizzard employees form first of its kind Game Workers Alliance Union Theo Salaun / ...