Today after a month-long suspension, X is now live again in Brazil. The platform had been suspended since late August after a showdown with the country’s Supreme Court in which X refused a court order to remove certain right-wing accounts and content that the Court said violated Brazilian law. After weeks of not complying, it […]
FTX Customers Will Get Back Billions After Judge OKs Bankruptcy Plan
A US judge has cleared the way for billions of dollars to be refunded to former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. At a court hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, judge John Dorsey gave final approval to FTX’s reorganization plan, the terms of which had previously been put to creditors and voted through by […]
Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?
Ball adds that the speed at which brands wanted to act, without a real plan or understanding of the space, created issues for its longevity: “There was definitely a lot of, ‘We need to do this because everyone’s doing it,’ and ‘We need to do this because shareholders expect us to be doing it.’ There […]
Bose Reinvented Itself Just in Time. Now Comes the Tricky Part
The company has always had premium prices, but in certain categories the products haven’t always matched the brand’s prestige: 2010s attempts at noise-canceling earbuds were bulky, sounded middling, and had poor battery life; and it also sold a line of too-expensive Bluetooth speakers with screens that nobody needed. Then, after its physical storefronts were not […]
Hurricane Helene Destroyed Roads. Here’s How to Rebuild—and Flood-Proof Them for Next Time
Typically, Muench says, the solution isn’t something too complicated: Just build infrastructure higher. But engineers can’t build roads and bridges to survive every disaster, which would lead to expensive, overbuilt projects that would “take generations to finish,” says Muench. ‘Rice Krispie’ Roads When engineers are rebuilding roads from scratch, they have also started to use […]
The Meteoric Rise of Temu and Pinduoduo—and What Might Finally Slow Them Down
Tsai didn’t mention Pinduoduo by name, but from its beginnings, the shopping platform has never made the merchant its focus like Alibaba did: It has always prioritized getting the user the lowest price online. “In retail ecommerce, price wars are continuous and will never stop,” says Zhuang Shuai, retail analyst and founder of Bailian Consulting. […]
Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit
You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor nasty biases, and require huge amounts of energy and water for training are all serious issues. Putting all that aside for a moment, though, it […]
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona
Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for a friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the […]
23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?
Kteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already left the platform. “I think they hit on something viral, which was the concept of where you’ve come from. People found that so fascinating. But once you know that information, you’re not going to come back five […]