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These are the biggest wins in the WGA’s new labor contract
(Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.) The WGA made it crystal clear from the jump that its members were ready for the fight of their lives in pursuit of a new minimum basic agreement — the official guidelines that determine how workers are…
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The Humane Ai Pin makes its debut on the runway at Paris Fashion Week
It’s Paris Fashion Week, and Humane was designer Coperni’s latest buzzy tech name to be included. Humane’s Ai Pin — a device we’ve so far only seen in silhouette on the company’s website or peeking out of Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri’s breast pocket in a TED demo earlier this year…
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Smart glasses need to be stylish to really go mainstream
When I first saw the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses a few weeks ago, I noticed something. In the event space Meta had so carefully prepared, there was a wall showcasing the different frames, colors, and lenses. It was meant to visualize all the different style options — more than 150,…
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‘The Android of agriculture’: Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming
We spend a lot of time here on Decoder talking about electric vehicles and the future of cars, and we’re usually talking about passenger vehicles or maybe cargo vans. But there’s another huge industry that can also reap the benefits of electrified transportation: agriculture. I co-hosted the Code Conference this…
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The Pixel 8 is Google’s best opportunity to bring its AI ideas together under one roof
If there’s one job I’d like AI to take from me, it’s my daily email deleting ritual. Every morning at 8:30AM, Google Calendar pings me with a reminder containing just one word: EMAILS. Thus, my formal workday begins as I speed-delete nearly every email that landed in my inbox overnight.…
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Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic
While the toy brand kills its plans for an oil-free plastic alternative, it’s still pumping out billions of non-biodegradable bricks a year. Can Lego ever be sustainable? Source
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