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1 day ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
In the information age, data is gold — and Google has enough to make King Midas blush. But in this new economic paradigm, all that data comes at a price: privacy lawsuits.
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1 day ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
Delivery Partner"Humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles are a must have for Amazon."/ Robots & Machines/ Amazon/ Delivery Robot/ LaborImage by Getty / FuturismAmazon drivers have a hard gig. They've struggled for years against long hours with limited breaks, unreasonable delivery quotas, and wage theft — not to mention repressive union-busting efforts to make sure none of that changes.
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2 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
The drama between US president Donald Trump and his former buddy-in-chief Elon Musk is far from over. As ABC reported today, now that he's been summarily retired from the White House, the billionaire SpaceX boss has been privately venting his frustrations at Trump. One particularly stinging betrayal, per the network's reporting: Trump's sudden withdrawal of Musk's buddy and financial benefactor, Jared Isaacman, from consideration to be the next NASA administrator.
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2 days ago | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Joe Wilkins
The drama between US president Donald Trump and his former buddy-in-chief Elon Musk is far from over. As ABC reported today, now that he's been summarily retired from the White House, the billionaire SpaceX boss has been privately venting his frustrations at Trump. One particularly stinging betrayal, per the network's reporting: Trump's sudden withdrawal of Musk's buddy and financial benefactor, Jared Isaacman, from consideration to be the next NASA administrator.
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3 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
Suspicious Compliance"Dollars are dollars."/ Artificial Intelligence/ Content Moderation/ Lgbtq/ MetaImage by Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty / FuturismFew companies in the history of capitalism have amassed as much wealth and influence as Meta.
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3 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
Slop's On"I want it to do as much as possible, short of actually preparing it."/ Artificial Intelligence/ Chatgpt/ Food/ Generative AiImage by Getty / FuturismEthos seemed like one of Austin's hottest restaurants back in 2024. The eatery rose to prominence in October as tens of thousands of followers flocked to its Instagram page, a showcase of lustrous dishes such as the crustless pizza ball and the eye-grabbing dust mite bread loaf.
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4 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
Unlimited PTOWelcome back. / Advanced Transport/ Elon Musk/ Evs/ TeslaImage by Allison Robbert / AFP / Kevin Dietsch / Getty / FuturismAs Tesla slowly rotted from the inside over the past year or so, big name investors and higher-ups publicly signaled their frustration with their absentee CEO, leaving many wondering when — or if — he was coming back.
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4 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
In front of hundreds of Georgetown students back in 2019, a clean-cut Mark Zuckerberg delivered an impassioned sermon on the importance of empowerment and free speech. The Meta CEO called civil rights advocate Elijah Cummings a "powerful voice for equality," credited Facebook as ground zero for #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and even cited radical abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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4 days ago | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Joe Wilkins
In front of hundreds of Georgetown students back in 2019, a clean-cut Mark Zuckerberg delivered an impassioned sermon on the importance of empowerment and free speech. The Meta CEO called civil rights advocate Elijah Cummings a "powerful voice for equality," credited Facebook as ground zero for #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and even cited radical abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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6 days ago | 
futurism.com | Joe Wilkins
Forget Me Not"You never forgot me. You gave me hope."/ Blocknik/ Bitcoin/ Ross Ulbricht/ Silk RoadImage by Ian Maule / GettyThe 12-year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road, the original crypto-enabled dark web mail-order-drug emporium — finally ended in January, when newly-minted second term president Donald Trump officially pardoned the bitcoin criminal.
