Author: Zach_Wilson
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
While Prop 22 guarantees workers some protections, such as 120 percent of the local minimum wage for each hour spent driving, a health insurance stipend, and reimbursement for job-related injuries, it’s far from the full range of benefits Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and other services would’ve had to provide if…
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: all the biggest trailers and news
It looks like Peacock is getting a solid dose of horror very soon. At San Diego Comic-Con, the streamer showed off a very brief teaser for its upcoming thriller series Teacup, while also confirming that it will start streaming in October. According to Peacock, the show “follows a disparate group…
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NASA blew up this inflatable space station structure on purpose
NASA and Sierra Space blew up another space habitat in June, and everyone is smiling about it. That’s because the full-size inflatable structure in this “ultimate burst pressure” test only failed after exceeding NASA’s recommended x4 safety levels by 22 percent. Sierra Space’s inflatable structure, known as a Large Integrated…
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Video game performers to go on strike
After a year and a half of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA has called a strike of all video game work produced under the union’s Interactive Media Agreement. The strike goes into effect July 26th at 12:01AM and impacts all SAG-AFTRA actors, voice actors, and motion capture actors and involves companies like Activision…
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OpenAI officially takes on Google with SearchGPT – but not everybody gets access for now
After months of speculation, OpenAI‘s search engine, SearchGPT, is here but only as a prototype and in limited testing. Even so, it’s a watershed moment for the generative AI company and may represent the first substantial challenge to Google‘s Search engine dominance. OpenAI announced that it’s testing SearchGPT in a blog post…
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OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine
OpenAI on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. The move marks the company’s entry into a competitive search engine market dominated by Google for decades. On its website, OpenAI described SearchGPT as “a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely…
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