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The looming prospect of human jobs getting quickly replaced by robots and other automated processes has spurred a wide range of potential solutions, from a universal basic income to retraining. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates has another idea: Tax the bots. In an interview …
New app from IBM can warn of bad weather even when network is down
A hurricane is on its way and it would be sensible to get out of its path. But the Internet is down, and you don’t know it’s coming to rip the roof off your house. This is a more likely scenario in …
Hello, LinkedIn: Facebook has just become a hiring hub for businesses
Despite boasting some 65 million local businesses visited by a billion users monthly, Facebook Inc. hasn’t yet offered a way for businesses to scout and hire staff — until now. The company on Wednesday announced it’s allowing businesses in the U.S. and Canada to …
Self-flying taxis to take to the skies of Dubai
Come July, autonomous flying taxis likely will be seen flying over Dubai’s skyline. Shortly after Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk had regaled his audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai with stories about cyborgs and self-driving technology that …
Elon Musk worries about a future of dangerous robots and unemployable humans
Multibillionaire tech maverick Elon Musk likes to talk about the future, a near future he has stated before will see humans displaced by robots. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, the chief executive of Tesla Motors Inc. covered a wide …
Appeals court upholds halt to Trump’s immigration ban, and tech cheers
Thanks in no small part to the tech industry’s uprising, President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration and travel ban is dead — for now. On Thursday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upheld a Seattle federal court’s …
Report finds tech workers should look far beyond Silicon Valley for jobs
Tech workers might be better off looking beyond the mecca of Silicon Valley for jobs, according to a new study by career marketplace firm Hired. The company’s just-released second annual State of Salaries research report found, unsurprisingly, that software engineers in San Francisco earn …
Google Brain ‘hallucinates’ to make blurry images clearer
Google Inc.’s deep learning research arm, Google Brain, has just made a whole bunch of science fiction and crime procedural shows from Star Trek to CSI come true — at least the parts where somebody points at a blurry image on a …
Email Privacy Act may finally pass, making government snooping harder
Amid fears that newly elected President Donald Trump would make good on his promise to expand the government’s surveillance powers, consumers worried about their privacy were just given a glimmer of hope today. The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed an email …
UPDATED: Silicon Valley’s vocal opposition to Trump is turning to action
It’s no secret that the relationship between technology leaders and newly elected President Donald J. Trump has been less than cordial. Now, it could get downright ugly. “Silicon Valley is stepping up,” Sam Altman, president of the startup incubator Y Combinator, said in …