2+ week, 1+ day ago   (761+ words) Zhao, a 30-something woman living in Beijing, says she lost over $100,000 in May to a romance scammer who claimed to be a researcher working for Microsoft. After initially chatting Zhao up on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, he asked…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (592+ words) The situation is relatable to anyone who has been in a parent WhatsApp chat: one person says something ridiculous, and everyone else has to react with varying degrees of politeness or directness. Side chats ensue, tensions start to boil. Oreogate…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (306+ words) Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (250+ words) The AI industry’s next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover, share, and build AI models, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more. The startup…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (198+ words) Some of Nvidia’s largest customers have been told prices of servers containing its AI chips will rise by more than 15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. The price hikes will go into effect…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (365+ words) Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve stepped away from Goose,” Chadwick wrote. “This was not a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (254+ words) I tally the dead. I tally today’s dead. I seek a tally of the dead or seek yesterday’s dead. I try to count them, the dead. Reports tell me there are, today, more dead. I announce the dead—the house…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (271+ words) A fashion tech entrepreneur has been ordered to serve time in prison after her ridiculous excuse for defrauding investors crumpled in court. On Thursday, Christine Hunsicker, former CEO of the “clothing-as-a-service” startup CaaStle was sentenced to five years in prison…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (336+ words) Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market. In a June 2026 report, the resume service Resume…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1026+ words) College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse conveyor belt monitored the pace…...