Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. As we stagger toward Labor Day, it’s worth thinking about the state of labor. America is near full employment. Some of the… Continue Reading
Netflix’s stock is having something of a late-summer resurgence, erasing some of the losses it suffered after it reported a slowdown in subscriber growth during the second quarter. Shares of Netflix stock have risen 15% since Aug. 17 to close… Continue Reading
Using newly installed facial-recognition technology, a man entering the U.S. from Brazil with a French passport at Washington, D.C.’s Dulles airport was identified as an impostor, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on Thursday. The identification came three days… Continue Reading
If you were watching MTV in 1990, you might remember seeing Madonna, draped in an American flag, bopping around between snapping backup dancers, and encouraging viewers to vote in that year’s midterm elections. It was the first-ever ad for Rock… Continue Reading
Amazon has worked on creating a digital video recorder (DVR) that records live television and stream shows on smartphones and the company’s Fire tablets, plug-in devices, and media software, according to a Bloomberg report. An Amazon-branded DVR with local storage… Continue Reading
The Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint Friday accusing Facebook of allowing advertisers to illegally discriminate against certain groups through its ad system. The housing-discrimination complaint, filed under the Fair Housing Act, said that advertisers can use… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An employee fired from Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Nevada battery factory filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing the company of spying on employees and failing to act after learning that a… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) dominates chips for training computers to think like humans, but it faces an entrenched competitor in a major avenue for expansion in the artificial intelligence chip market: Intel Corp (INTC.O). FILE PHOTO: The logo of… Continue Reading
You’ll crack a smile at least when you watch the Southwest Airlines flight attendant’s safety brief that I’ve embedded below. It’s pretty funny, although she does talk quite fast. But it’s time to ask a serious question: Would you remember… Continue Reading
Good evening, Cyber Saturday readers. A number of tech companies excised the rantings and ravings of Alex Jones, a pundit known for promulgating deranged conspiracy theories, from their digital repositories this past week. On his website, InfoWars, Jones has been… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. We waft about our lives absorbed in our fascinating selves and assuming so much about others. We don’t really have much time… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc and Chief Executive Elon Musk were sued twice on Friday by investors who said they fraudulently engineered a scheme to squeeze short-sellers, including through Musk’s proposal to take the electric car company private. The lawsuits were… Continue Reading
Much like Samsung leaking the Galaxy Note 9, Google has done a similarly impressive job ‘accidentally’ revealing its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL details on multiple occasions. Those leaks primarily delivered good news, until now… Picked up both on… Continue Reading
Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 “as a service”. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Thursday that the iPhone maker’s $1 trillion market capitalization was “not the most important measure” of the company’s success but was instead a result of its focus on its… Continue Reading
In singularly unsurprising news, Brookstone has filed for bankruptcy. The company will shutter its remaining 101 mall storefronts, officially closing out an era that began its fade years ago. Even if you won’t mourn its disappearance—even if you haven’t stepped… Continue Reading