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☆ New York Times tech union goes on strike, one day before election
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The New York Times Tech Guild announced Monday morning it is officially on an unfair labor practice strike, just one day before the high stakes presidential election. They work on the back-end of Times' products including games, recipes, podcasts and election coverage, according to the website. The NYT said they work on the business side of the company. The Times said that it has “robust plans in place to ensure that we are able to fulfill our mission and serve our readers.”The Times Tech Guild and NYT management negotiated through late Sunday, according to a report from the New York Times. Issues at the table included having a “just cause” provision in the guild contract, pay increases and pay equity, and return-to-office policies.

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☆ New York Times tech workers are going on strike at the worst possible time
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times' tech workers went on strike, risking disrupting the Times during the election. AdvertisementThe New York Times' tech workers went on strike Monday morning, threatening to disrupt the publication's operation during the presidential election and its aftermath. The Tech Guild, which represents workers like software developers and data analysts, said members would be picketing outside the Times' New York City headquarters. The Times Guild, which represents non-tech workers, called on Times management to complete a deal by Election Day. It's represented by the NewsGuild of New York, which also represents more than 1,400 newsroom and business employees via The New York Times Guild.

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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Nvidia, Berkshire Hathaway, Yum China and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Hakyung Kim | In Hakyungkim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Nvidia is slated to replace rival chipmaker Intel , while paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams will replace Dow Inc . Fox Corp. — Shares rose nearly 4% after the media company surpassed Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates. That surpassed the earnings per share of $1.13 and $3.38 billion in revenue expected by analysts polled by FactSet. The New York Times — The media company's shares fell 6% after The New York Times added fewer-than-expected digital subscribers in the third quarter, even as its digital advertising sales saw its strongest growth in more than two years. The New York Times Tech Guild also announced Monday morning that it is officially on an unfair labor practice strike .

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The clock is ticking on the New York Times’ iconic election needle. The New York Times Tech Guild announced that its members will go on strike on the eve of one of the most critical elections in the nation’s history if an agreement isn’t reached on a contract as soon as possible. The NYT Tech Guild comprises about 700 tech workers, including software engineers, designers, product managers and data analysts who build the newspaper’s most profitable products — like its website, podcasts and games. The New York Times has not responded to a request for comment. Much of the New York Times’ homepage on election night is dominated by graphics and other visual components, including the famous Needle, a data visualization that resembles a car’s speedometer.

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☆ Elon Musk's X is a financial 'disaster,' co-authors of new book 'Character Limit' say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk's X is a financial 'disaster,' co-authors of new book 'Character Limit' sayNew York Times technology reporters and co-authors of 'Character Limit' Kate Conger and Ryan Mac join CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" to discuss their new book examining Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, how the controversial figure has changed his stance politically over the past several years, and more.

Persons: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Elon Organizations: Elon, New York Times, Twitter

☆ Apple, Meta caught in proxy war between U.S. and China, NY Times' Mike Isaac suggests
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailApple, Meta caught in proxy war between U.S. and China, NY Times' Mike Isaac suggestsMike Isaac, New York Times technology correspondent, joins 'Fast Money' to talk the proxy war brewing between U.S. and China over technology.

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☆ New York Times tech workers to strike over return-to-office rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The New York Times building is seen in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 30 (Reuters) - Tech workers at the New York Times (NYT.N) plan to strike for half a day on Monday, accusing the publisher of attempting to unilaterally force them back to the office. ET and the nearly 700 workers will hold demonstrations on Zoom and outside the company's headquarters in Manhattan, where some will wear Halloween costumes, said the Times Tech Guild (TTG). The New York Times issued its return-to-office policy before the tech guild was recognized early last year, when workers voted 404-88 to join the NewsGuild of New York, making TTG the largest tech union in the U.S. with bargaining rights. Tech workers at the union have been in contract talks with the company for more than a year.

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Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Are New York City’s new rules for short-term rentals like Airbnb effectively a ban? And will they accomplish what proponents want them to? Then, The New York Times tech reporter Erin Griffith on Silicon Valley’s mad dash for GPUs. And finally, we take stock of the A.I. songs of the summer and discuss YouTube and Universal Music Group’s plan to make synthetic voices profitable.

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☆ Twitter staff are helping to remove bird logos at its HQ for the X rebrand, but one reportedly broke apart and is still there
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has started having Twitter's iconic blue bird logo removed at the headquarters. One sign couldn't be taken down as it broke apart, leaving remnants still attached, per an NYT reporter. As Twitter rebrands to X, staff are taking down the iconic blue bird logos at its San Francisco headquarters. The Times earlier reported that work had started on detaching a ten-foot-tall bird icon in the office's cafeteria. "This is an extremely risky move because with X, Musk is essentially starting over while its competition is afoot," he added.

Persons: Elon Musk, Ryan Mac, Yu Liu, Mike Proulx, Forrester, Proulx, Mark Zuckerberg's Organizations: Twitter, San, New York Times, Times Locations: San Francisco

☆ Twitter appeared to suffer a new glitch during the Met Gala, logging out desktop users seemingly at random
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter appeared to suffer another outage on Monday, as users were logged out of the platform. The issue continued during the Met Gala, a typically high-traffic event as users discuss celebrity fashion. Twitter appeared to suffer another glitch on Monday, as desktop users reported being repeatedly logged out of the platform. ET – a couple hours before celebrities arrived on the red carpet for the Met Gala. In February, Twitter suffered an outage during another high-traffic event, the Super Bowl halftime show.

☆ Bill Gates says A.I. chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months: You'll be 'stunned by how it helps'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

That's according to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who says AI chatbots are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 months time. AI chatbots, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, have developed rapidly over the past several months, and can now compete with human-level intelligence on certain standardized tests. But AI chatbots' ability to recognize and recreate human-like language changes that dynamic, proponents say. And AI technology must improve at reading and recreating human language to better motivate students before it can become a viable tutor, Gates said. Gates said he regularly asks Microsoft AI developers why chatbots can't perform relatively simple calculations, or even multiply some numbers.

☆ CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI says AI will be 'the greatest force for economic empowerment' we've ever seen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The popularity of AI chatbots like ChatGPT has people concerned that AI may steal their jobs. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT. Altman says he thinks AI will be the "greatest force for economic empowerment" we've ever seen. "I think AI is going to be the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen," Altman said in a tweet on Monday. In an interview last month with StrictlyVC's Connie Loizos, Altman was similarly asked for his predictions on the future of AI.

☆ Microsoft's chief technology officer says he uses the new AI-powered Bing to decode his teenage daughter's use of Gen Z slang like 'rizz' and 'bussin'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft's CTO said he uses the new AI-powered Bing search engine to understand his teenage daughter's slang. In a recent interview, he praised the search engine, saying he misses it whenever he doesn't have access. Microsoft unveiled its new AI-powered Bing in collaboration with OpenAI last week. The overhauled search engine will feature similar technology that backs OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT, though OpenAI has promised Bing will be "more powerful." There's currently a waitlist to gain admittance to the new search engine, so Insider looked up the definitions the old-fashioned way: on Google.

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT is 'cool,' but it's a 'horrible product'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT was a "horrible product" in an interview, citing the AI chatbot's outages. OpenAI reportedly released ChatGPT to the public as a last resort due to internal beta testing issues. Altman conceded that the AI chatbot was "cool" but that it wasn't a "great, well-integrated product." In his interview with "Hard Fork," Altman conceded that ChatGPT's AI technology is "cool, for sure." But no one would say this was like a great, well-integrated product yet... but there is so much value here that people are willing to put up with it," Altman said.

☆ Meta's problem is that the metaverse is supremely uncool
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The biggest problem: It just doesn’t look cool. To get into the metaverse in the first place, you first have to strap on a bulky headset like Meta’s $400 Quest device. VR avatars also need to respond in real time to the ways we move our faces and bodies, which requires powerful computing and graphics processing. Still, FedEx Ground is refusing to offer the kind of across-the-board financial relief to its contractors that Patton and others are seeking. “We recognize that current economic conditions are posing new challenges,” FedEx Ground said in a statement.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-20 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Mark Zuckerberg, in response to a torrent of critical memes mocking the graphics of Meta’s newest project, has heard his critics – and changed his selfie. Many compared the Metaverse design to early 90’s graphics and pointed out how lifeless and childish the Zuckerberg selfie looked. It quickly won the designation “dead eyes.”Well, Zuckerberg has apparently seen the memes, because on Friday he announced there are major updates coming – along with new avatar graphics. On Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg posted a photo of his more advanced-looking avatar. Facebook planned to spend at least $10 billion in 2021 on Facebook Reality Labs, dedicating significant resources toward its augmented and virtual reality products and services in last year’s third quarter results.

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