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Chief executives of Europe’s top companies are paying themselves 110 times more than the average worker, an analysis by the European Trade Union Institute shows. Between an average basic salary …
CEOs paid over 100 times more than workers Read More
As the AI world races toward next-generation breakthroughs, Nvidia (NVDA-3.12%) fortified its position with a flood of new chips, software and services designed to keep the industry plugged into its …
Nvidia goes all in on AI agents and humanoid robots at CES Read More
Mirjam Muller is a feminist philosopher based in Berlin with a very practical bent: the ethics of sweatshops where most of the clothes we wear are made by women in …
Sweatshop working – not all it seems Read More
The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon, but beneath its dense canopy lies a shifting reality. The southern province of Putumayo – a remote …
Women-led fish farming in Colombia becomes alternative to drug crops Read More
LONDON — Celebrities and other public figures could be offered fresh legal protections to stop artificial intelligence tools mimicking their likenesses, under plans being considered by the British government. Ministers …
UK could offer celebs protection from AI clones Read More
“Thank you for calling. … You’re speaking with Renzo. This call may be recorded for — uhm — this call may be re—” Renzo Bahala, a customer service agent for …
AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse Read More
Most European governments have failed to meet the deadline to put the minimum wage directive into national law – and some are actively working against the aims of the directive. …
Member states failing to deliver minimum wage directive Read More
Medan, Indonesia – Halimah Nasution used to feel as if she had it all. For years, she and her husband Agus Saputra made a good living renting out supplies for weddings, …
‘We lost everything’: the Indonesians falling out of the middle class Read More
Just this month, northern Vietnam has been hit by super typhoon Yagi, the strongest in decades. Earlier this year, Ho Chi Minh City residents experienced the longest heat wave in three decades. …
Extreme weather is making life harder for Vietnam’s delivery riders Read More
The German term “Zeitenwende,” which literally translates to “a change of times,” is being used rather frequently in German politics at the moment. Coined by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to address the new foreign and …
How the VW crisis is a failure of Germany’s car policy Read More