“These are the last days of social media as we know it,” argues a humanities lecturer from University College Cork exploring where technology and culture intersect, warning they could be come lingering derelicts “haunted by bots and the echo of once-human chatter…” “Whatever remains of genuine, human content is increasingly Read more…
India’s IT services industry saw entry-level hiring collapse by 70% between fiscal years 2023 and 2024, as the country’s four largest IT exporters reduced fresh graduate recruitment from 225,000 to 60,000. Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys shed a combined 38,000 employees in fiscal 2024, marking the sector’s first workforce contraction Read more…
A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing. Private companies are most likely to deploy in-work surveillance and one in seven employers are recording or reviewing screen activity, according to a UK-wide survey that Read more…
AI is transforming corporate America, yet the boom remains understated in government growth statistics, according to Goldman Sachs. Analysts at Goldman pointed to the scale of the boom in a Saturday note: “Revenue at US companies providing AI infrastructure has risen by $400 billion since 2022, which at first glance Read more…
Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians in Japan was 99,763 as of September, the health ministry said on Friday. Of that total, women accounted for an overwhelming 88%… Health minister Takamaro Fukoka congratulated the 87,784 female and 11,979 male centenarians on Read more…
“When residents of Equatorial Guinea’s Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn’t expect the swift end to their internet access…” “Residents and activists said the company’s dynamite explosions in open quarries and construction Read more…
Finland’s second-largest university has announced new research suggesting that heart attacks could be an infectious disease. [T]he research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbor a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from Read more…