WFH has been a standard working practice for many people for years now. Sure, it’s nice to do your work in the comfort of your own home, but it does come with certain issues. For starters, you need to stock up with the right equipment. A good worker needs good tools, after all. Which means
I will be a Groupon stan until I die. I have used their coupons for massages, haircuts, oil changes, and for experiences like a Camel ride in the Sahara while I was in Morocco and a deal on glamping in an Airstream trailer in Joshua Tree. I even found my favorite waxing aesthetician on Groupon.
Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement
After two years, Microsoft has finally completed its E.U. Data Boundary, a solution for commercial and public sector cloud customers that lets them store and process their data within the E.U. and European Free Trade Association, which is the intergovernmental organisation of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This can be applied to Microsoft 365, Dynamics
Apple is upgrading its app safety offerings later this year, including new age assurance policies intended to wade into the online child protection debate. According to a recently published white paper, the company plans to expand its Child Account settings, App Store Age Ranges, and provide avenues for app developers to set more comprehensive age-restriction
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February. Source link
One of Sequoia’s most prominent investors, managing partner Roelof Botha, sees signs of another greed cycle brewing in venture capital, one where the least sophisticated investors will likely get most hurt. He posted a warning on X on Thursday, writing, “We remain destined to repeat the mistakes of the past! SPVs are making a come-back,
Multi-location businesses’ marketing efforts are extensive — which makes them both expensive for their organizations, and time consuming for their teams. Managing local search, social, and reputation management efforts across hundreds or thousands of locations is a massive undertaking, and maintaining brand consistency across all of the marketing channels, messages, and markets that organizations’ efforts
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 has arrived. On Thursday, the ChatGPT maker announced the latest version of its LLM (large language model) in research preview. As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a few weeks ago, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s last non-chain-of-thought model, meaning all future models will have reasoning capabilities. “Early testing shows that interacting with GPT-4.5 feels more
The CDC did not respond to requests for comment. Other lifesaving USAID programs ostensibly granted humanitarian waivers have encountered similar issues. Earlier this month, WIRED reported that the food aid and famine prevention program FEWS NET remains inactive, despite having received a waiver, with many of the workers who had implemented the program furloughed or