Kit Eaton
News Writer at Inc.
Technology/business writer, also author, and actually a scientist! Keen on unusual, funny stories. Now at https://t.co/wnsZ3uxJ7K. Seen before at NYT, FastCo., Gizmodo…etc etc
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5 days ago |
inc.com | Kit Eaton
New York-based Adafruit Industries just blogged about its very first Trump tariff bill, and it’s a big hit. The electronics designing company says it’s “no stranger” to tariff bills, and has noticed they’ve “definitely ramped up over the last two months,” according to tech news site The Verge. That corresponds exactly with the period of time President Trump has been announcing, then backtracking on his numerous tariff plans. But the newest bill the company faced is a shocker.
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6 days ago |
inc.com | Kit Eaton
California Assembly Bill 1221 is designed to limit the use of increasingly powerful worker surveillance technology, systems which let employers track pretty much all their employee activity during work hours—ostensibly to improve efficiency and monitor for good or bad performance. Isaac G.
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6 days ago |
thestar.com.my | Kit Eaton
Not for the first time, AI evangelists’ lofty claims are running up against workplace realities. There’s no shortage of companies making bold promises when it comes to their tech: Google thinks it could save your workers 122 hours of tedious work per year, and save your company lots of money. A new startup called Mechanize is aiming at replacing everyone’s jobs – with who knows what impact on the economy.
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6 days ago |
inc.com | Kit Eaton
In a fascinating fireside chat at the recent SXSW Conference in Austin, two experts dug right into the details of how generative AI is impacting workplaces globally. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania just published a useful summary of the main points tackled by Neil Hoyne, Google’s chief measurement strategist and a Wharton senior fellow, and Wharton marketing professor Stefano Puntoni. College kids are way ahead of them.
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1 week ago |
inc.com | Kit Eaton
No other company has a history with computers and technology quite like IBM. From its founding in 1911, the technology giant was a leader in developing the mainframe computer and the desktop PC, and is still at the forefront of next-gen quantum computing. At one point it made 70 percent of computers sold worldwide.
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Microsoft Says Workers are Already Using AI to Lighten Workloads, at Risk to Their Own Brainpower https://t.co/5f7GM8CUlB
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