While Mark Cuban and other sore losers are leaving X to shout into the void, several major advertisers have returned to the platform…
‘Let’s make the dinobabies extinct’: IBM Emails Reveal Execs Forced Out Older Staff to Make Way for Younger Staff…
Hundreds of former IBM employees are suing for age discrimination… A company executive allegedly referred to older employees as ‘dinobabies’ that should be an ‘extinct species’ in an email quoted in court filings…
IBM’s Supercomputer ‘Summit’ Has Identified 77 Existing Drugs That Could Tackle Coronavirus…
A supercomputer has identified 77 drugs that could provide a framework to help researchers find a cure for coronavirus. A huge IBM supercomputer known as ‘Summit’ was tasked by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers with finding a potential cure to COVID-19. The study focused on the method the virus uses to bind to cells and […]
IBM: 120 Million Workers May Need to be Reskilled or Retrained in the Next Three Years…
In the next three years, as many as 120 million workers in the world’s 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) study. In addition, only 41 percent of CEOs surveyed say that […]
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State…
AN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens, The Intercept can reveal. The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up […]
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color…
In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance operations to a single command center. […]
Trump Tells Tech Leaders ‘There’s nobody like you in the world’…
Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do “anything we can do” to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign. “This is truly an amazing group of people,” Trump said at Trump Tower to kick off a meeting with Silicon Valley’s top leaders. “I want to add that […]
IBM Announces Intent To Hire 25,000 U.S. Workers…
IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty said she plans to hire about 25,000 people in the U.S. and invest $1 billion over the next four years, laying out her vision for filling technology jobs in America on the eve of a meeting of industry leaders with President-elect Donald Trump…