January 10, 2025 The dream of an affordable car is dying—and tariffs could make it worse About a third of budget vehicles for the U.S. market are built in Mexico. BY Rob Walker Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. If you’re in the market for a cheap new … Continue reading The dream of an affordable car is dying—and tariffs could make it worse
June 12, 2024 The mental toll of being cash-poor and credit-rich is getting worse for middle-class Americans Millions of Americans borrow money to pay for planned and unplanned expenses. From student loans to sky-high rent, rising interest rates, and increasing prices at grocery stores. BY Rodney Williams We’re halfway through 2024 and Americans are still living … Continue reading The mental toll of being cash-poor and credit-rich is getting worse for middle-class Americans
April 27, 2024 AI is about to make app subscription fatigue even worse Get ready for all the AI subscriptions you’re going to need—starting, perhaps, with Google Photos. BY Michael Grothaus If you hate dealing with opaque and costly app subscriptions, I’ve got bad news for you: The situation is about to get even worse—and you … Continue reading AI is about to make app subscription fatigue even worse
March 29, 2024 How Sam Bankman-Fried made things worse for himself with his arrogance For someone obsessed with betting, SBF turned out to be a pretty lousy gambler. BY James Surowiecki Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to prison for 25 years on Thursday for having pilfered customer funds from his crypto exchange FTX, became famous for … Continue reading How Sam Bankman-Fried made things worse for himself with his arrogance
March 29, 2024 TikTok’s problems just keep getting worse: Now it could be in trouble with the IRS A former TikTok employee has filed complaints with the Department of Labor and IRS over the company’s management of stock options. BY Chris Stokel-Walker A former TikTok employee sent letters of complaint this month to the Internal Revenue … Continue reading TikTok’s problems just keep getting worse: Now it could be in trouble with the IRS
March 09, 2024 Emotion-tracking AI is making some workers’ challenges worse More than 50% of large employers in the U.S. use emotion AI aiming to infer employees’ internal states. BY The Conversation Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how … Continue reading Emotion-tracking AI is making some workers’ challenges worse
Google Search Ad Scams: Will LLMs And GAI Make It Worse? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 12, 2024 Google Search continues to struggle with malicious ads on its platform — mostly from cybercriminals trying to trick people into downloading malware injected copies of free software applications. One security expert talks about how large … Continue reading Google Search Ad Scams: Will LLMs And GAI Make It Worse? (DD)
By Clint Rainey January 18, 2024 You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for … Continue reading Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say
By The Conversation January 12, 2024 Having a child is bad for a woman’s earnings. This is not only in the immediate period after the birth, but across her lifetime—as shown in research by recent economics Nobel prize-winner Claudia Goldin. On the other hand, men who become fathers are perceived as self-reliant and decisive. And they are often … Continue reading Mothers are more likely to work worse jobs—while fathers thrive in careers
By Shalene Gupta December 04, 2023 Gender inequity is everywhere, from household chores and leisure time to salaries and now “green skills.” As climate change looms over us, skills that can help solve environmental problems are becoming increasingly valuable. However, a new report from LinkedIn finds that only 1 in 10 women have so-called … Continue reading Women are falling behind in the green economy. LinkedIn says the gender gap is getting worse
