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
By Shalene Gupta November 08, 2023 The best moment of the workday, in all honesty, is probably lunch. (Okay, maybe it’s the second best moment, and the first best is clocking out.) Yet, increasingly, the sacred lunch hour seems to be in danger of going extinct. EzCater, a company that provides corporate food solutions, … Continue reading Skipping your lunch break contributes to workplace burnout and makes you worse at your job
By AJ Hess February 26, 2023 The cloud of dread hanging over you on Sunday evening; the wave of anxious anticipation you feel ahead of a new week; the cold sweat you get thinking about Monday. These feelings have a name: the “Sunday scaries.” According to recent data from LinkedIn and Headspace, the … Continue reading It’s not just you. Your Sunday scaries are getting worse
By Christopher Zara February 22, 2023 As you debate whether to pay Mark Zuckerberg for a blue verification badge on Instagram, here’s an interesting piece of data that you might help you decide. Engagement rates on Instagram have generally been falling for brands, even as those brands continue to post at the … Continue reading Brands have an Instagram engagement problem, and it’s getting worse
LastPass reveals another security breach Mariella Moon @mariella_moon LastPass CEO Karim Toubba has revealed that the password manager has been breached again. Toubba said the company detected an unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that it shares with its parent company GoTo, which was formerly known as LogMeIn. To investigate the incident, … Continue reading The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
By Sam Becker October 31, 2022 Billionaires raked it in during the early stages of the pandemic, but 2022 has not been nearly as kind. In fact, since the beginning of the year, some of the world’s richest tech billionaires—a list that includes Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Jeff … Continue reading Big Tech billionaires lost fortunes this year. The hit to your 401(k) might feel even worse
