Category Archives: Business

Cheaters Hacked an AI Bot—and Beat the ‘Rocket League’ Elite

Expert players of the popular vehicular soccer game have been caught out by lesser players using a superhuman bot built on cutting-edge machine learning.

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A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis

Investigators found that conditions in three of the company’s facilities risk “serious physical harm” to workers.

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Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering

A shortcut to going public, called a SPAC, helped early-stage tech companies raise money. Now some are suffering slumps.

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Metaverse Landlords Are Creating a New Class System

Virtual landowners have found a way to put their investments to work, but with unintended consequences.

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The Collapse of the UK’s Electric Vehicle Champion

Britishvolt promised investors it would be the cornerstone of the country’s battery industry. Now it faces bankruptcy.

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Big Tech’s Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails Immigrant Workers

Decades-old visa rules mean that job cuts disadvantage workers, companies, and perhaps the whole country.

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Life as a 21st-Century Trucker

Technology, corporate greed, and supply-chain chaos are transforming life behind the wheel of a big rig. I went on the road to find exactly how.

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Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The US Government Is Watching

The Department of Justice warned a provider of tenant-screening software that its technology must comply with fair housing law.

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Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies

By reinstating banned accounts and selling blue checks, Musk has supercharged “the most dangerous” Covid disinformation.

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Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers

The chair of the Federal Trade Commission explains why she wants to ban companies from locking up employees with noncompete clauses.

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