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In just one year, Google turns AI setbacks into dominance
TechXplore· 2025-09-24 08:48
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Google CEO Sundar Pichai walks to lunch at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2025. Caught off guard by ChatGPT and mocked for early blunders with its own generative artificial intelligence efforts, Google has pulled off a dramatic turnaround in just one year, becoming a major player in consumer-facing AI. "T ...
EU queries Apple, Google, Microsoft over financial scams
TechXplore· 2025-09-23 15:51
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Big Tech must do more to tackle illegal content online in the European Union under the bloc's Digital Services Act. The European Union on Tuesday demanded Big Tech players including Apple and Google explain what action they are taking against financial scams online, as Brussels seeks to show it is not shying away from enforcing ...
Amazon wielded 'overwhelming' control over contract workers, labor board tells judge
TechXplore· 2025-09-23 10:40
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon.com Inc. exercised "overwhelming control" over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren't its employees, U.S. labor board attorneys told a judge Monday. "Amazon structured its logistics network to maintain all the benefits of control while denying any responsibility as an employer," Sana ...
Oracle names Magouyrk and Sicilia as CEOs; Catz to become executive vice chair of the board
TechXplore· 2025-09-22 14:30
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Oracle CEO Safra Catz smiles during a dinner with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, on Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File Oracle has named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as CEOs, with current CEO Safra Catz becoming executive vice chair of the technology company's ...
Google faces court battle over breakup of ad tech business
TechXplore· 2025-09-22 08:31
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Google is facing a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly. Google faces a fresh federal court test on Monday as US government lawyers ask a judge to order the breakup of the search engine giant's ad technology busi ...
Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription tricks
TechXplore· 2025-09-22 08:31
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: In it's complaint the Federal Trade Commission alleges that Amazon knowingly used these designs called 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into signing up for the $139-per-year Prime service during checkouts. Amazon goes to trial on Monday in a US government lawsuit that accuses the e-commerce giant of using tricks to enroll mill ...
Amazon bumps pay, lowers health insurance costs for warehouse workers
TechXplore· 2025-09-19 11:08
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion to raise pay and lower health insurance costs for warehouse and transportation employees in the U.S. The company said Wednesday that the average pay for a worker in Amazon's vast logistics empire will increase to $23 an hour this year. The averag ...
Race to make smartglasses relevant heats up again with new tech from Meta and Snap
TechXplore· 2025-09-19 09:53
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also resistance. People who wore Google Glass in 2014 faced backlash over fears that the smart glasses, priced at $1,500, would secretly record people or make human interactions socially awkward. T ...
Amazon pledged to support affordable housing. How has it fared so far?
TechXplore· 2025-09-18 18:40
亚马逊住房基金项目进展 - 亚马逊于2021年启动住房权益基金 初始承诺20亿美元用于在三个重点都市圈(西雅图 阿灵顿 纳什维尔)建设和保留2万套可负担住房单元[6] - 项目进展远超预期 原定五年期目标已提前完成 截至2025年9月已完成2.1万套住房建设 其中8600套位于西雅图地区[7] - 公司追加14亿美元资金承诺 计划在三个城市新增1.4万套住房 目前西雅图地区已完成1万套住房建设里程碑[7] 资金运作模式 - 通过低息贷款和赠款组合方式提供资金 例如Angle Lake项目获得1700万美元低息贷款和200万美元赠款[4] - 与地方开发商和住房管理局合作 以补充现有资金缺口的方式开展项目[9] - 项目要求长期 affordability条款 大多数住房需保持99年可负担性[5] 目标人群定位 - 重点服务地区中位收入50%-80%人群 该区间年收入约5.5-8.8万美元(以西雅图个人中位收入11万美元计算)[10] - 针对性解决教师助理 保安等中等收入群体租房困难问题[11] - 同时包含混合收入组合 包含低于50%中位收入的极低收入家庭住房[15] 地理分布特征 - 西雅图地区集中度最高 已建成5216套住房[13] - 贝尔维尤地区建成1486套住房 使当地可负担住房存量增加31%[13] - 项目分布北至埃弗里特南至塔科马 但主要集中在西雅图-贝尔维尤都市圈[13] 项目设计特色 - 强调交通导向型开发 如Angle Lake项目距离轻轨站仅50英尺[3][4] - 包含多代同堂户型 提供最多四卧室单元[12] - 实施社区偏好计划 防止绅士化导致的居民流离失所[11][12] 行业比较 - 科技公司普遍参与保障房建设 苹果 Meta 谷歌和微软均设立类似基金[8] - 各公司采用不同模式 部分提供自有土地 部分提供贷款支持[9] - 项目推进速度存在差异 部分项目受地方法规和发展延迟困扰[9]
Deliveroo CEO to step down following DoorDash takeover
TechXplore· 2025-09-18 13:13
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Deliveroo founder Will Shu said he wanted to 'contemplate my next challenge' as he steps down as CEO after 13 years. Will Shu, founder of food delivery app Deliveroo, will step down as its chief executive once US rival DoorDash completes a takeover of the British group, a statement said Thursday. DoorDash in May agreed to buy ...