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Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse in Arizona.

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  • Business

Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year. Amazon also contends with the need to recalibrate after a pandemic-era upsurge.

February 02, 2023
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  • Alina Selyukh
A TikTok official gives a tour of the company's Transparency and Accountability Centers in the Los Angeles area.

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  • Technology

TikTok officials go on a public charm offensive amid a stalemate in Biden White House

The hit video app is facing an existential crisis, and it is hoping promoting its reorganization will help convince Americans that it is independent from its Chinese owner.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Computers have been used in rocketry for half-a-century, so it's possible to think that the new AI programs could help. They struggled to grasp the basics.

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  • Technology

We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned

Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong?

February 02, 2023
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
This picture taken on January 12, 2023 in Toulouse, southwestern France shows a smartphone and a computer screen displaying the logos of the Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and their parent company Meta.

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  • Business

The tide appears to be turning for Facebook's Meta, even with falling revenue

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors the social media company is restructuring for "efficiency" and plans to become more "nimble." The company's stock surged.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. 12, 2022.

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  • Africa

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

February 01, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
The EEOC is turning its attention to the use of AI and other advanced technologies in hiring.

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  • Business

Can bots discriminate? It's a big question as companies use AI for hiring

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says artificial intelligence-based hiring tools may be creating discriminatory barriers to jobs. The agency is asking for input as it considers guardrails.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
In this photo provided by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, its members search for a radioactive capsule believed to have fallen off a truck being transported on a freight route on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, on Saturday.

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  • World

A tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule is found in Western Australia

The silver capsule the size of a pea had been lost in transit last month on the Great Northern Highway in Western Australia. "We have essentially found the needle in the haystack," one official said.

February 01, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France's ambassador and military forces, in Ouagadougou, on Jan. 20, 2023. Russia has been trying to expand its influence throughout Africa in recent years.

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  • World

A pro-Russian social media campaign is trying to influence politics in Africa

Researchers have identified a large network pushing pro-Russian themes and messages to French-speaking audiences around Africa, amid long-running efforts by Russia to gain influence in the region.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
An employee examines a vanadium flow battery stack in the Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL.

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  • Investigations

Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

The Department of Energy allowed a taxpayer-funded breakthrough in batteries to transfer overseas with little oversight

January 31, 2023
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  • Laura Sullivan
The TikTok app logo is pictured in Tokyo, Sept. 28, 2020. University of Wisconsin System officials said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, that they will restrict the use of TikTok on system devices.

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  • Politics

The CEO of TikTok will testify before Congress amid security concerns about the app

TikTok has been under scrutiny in recent years about its privacy and security practices and its effect on young people's mental health. Various bans of the app have been enacted across the country.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Demonstrators pretend to resuscitate the Earth while advocating for the 1.5 degree warming goal to survive at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 16, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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  • Climate

AI is predicting the world is likely to hit a key warming threshold in 10-12 years

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that's more pessimistic than previous modeling.

January 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
<em>Season: A letter to the future</em>'s protagonist journeys to record the world before a foretold cataclysm.

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  • Arts & Life

In 'Season: A letter to the future,' scrapbooking is your doomsday prep

Scrapbook and bike your way through a beautiful world in the face of a foretold cataclysm.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Justin Lucas
Google last week announced it would layoff 12,000 people from its staff, the latest Big Tech company to enact mass workforce reductions in recent months.

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  • Technology

5 takeaways from the massive layoffs hitting Big Tech right now

Some 200,000 tech jobs have been lost in what is seen as one of the sharpest downturns in the tech industry's history. Here is what you need to know about the mass layoffs in Silicon Valley.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Political activist Mongkhon Thirakot flashes the pro-democracy gesture of a three-finger salute ahead of going to a court in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, Thursday Jan. 26, 2023.

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  • Asia

A Thai court sentences an activist to 28 years for online posts about the monarchy

A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country's monarchy.

January 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (left), and FBI Director Christopher Wray at the Department of Justice in Washington on Thursday.

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  • National Security

FBI says it 'hacked the hackers' to shut down major ransomware group

The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.

January 26, 2023
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  • Jenna McLaughlin
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