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Natalie had just dropped off a customer at the Ritz Hotel in central London when her phone started aggressively bleeping at her with offers of new fares. “I couldn’t concentrate. …
Taken for a Ride: Inside Uber’s New Race to the Bottom Read More
101 East meets the job seekers caught up in China’s youth unemployment crisis. China is experiencing a prolonged economic slowdown, which has led to a youth unemployment crisis. In 2023, …
China’s youth face growing job crisis Read More
You’d be forgiven if you passed by St. James Towers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, or Southbridge Towers in Lower Manhattan without noting their exceptional qualities or sensing the tumult within. The …
Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them Read More
Brazil has emerged as a champion of tech regulation among emerging economies. It enacted an Internet Bill of Rights in 2014, which established protections on net neutrality, freedom of expression, …
Brazil’s push for comprehensive AI regulation Read More
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