Science of fear: Why we love being terrified on Halloween – CNET
“We want, as human beings, to have the capacity to experience a range of emotions — fear, being one of them.”
The real story behind a tech founder’s ‘tweetstorm that saves Christmas’
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen knows logistics. After touring the Port of L.A., he came up with some solutions to the container ship backlog.
Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok grilled by lawmakers over child safety failures – CNET
Social media companies faced five hours of questioning by a UK parliamentary committee examining the incoming Online Harms Bill.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to sunset its Meta project – CNET
The organization confirmed it transferred brand assets to Facebook before its rebrand.
Report: 79% of IT teams have seen increase in endpoint security breaches
The rising number of rebuilds suggests that hackers have become more successful at breaching the endpoint through malicious links.Read More
Texas tech workers targeted by Bay Area firms over abortion ban
Ten Bay Area tech public relations agencies hold a virtual job fair, targeting Texas tech workers impacted by state abortion ban.Read More
Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’
Facebook rebrands as Meta while the metaverse continues to leave the company behind with platforms like Roblox.Read More
New deep reinforcement learning technique helps AI to evolve
A new technique from Stanford researchers creates AI virtual agents that can evolve both in their physical structure and learning capacities.Read More
Zendesk acquires Momentive to boost its customer analytics offerings
Zendesk announced that it has agreed to acquire Momentive, the company behind SurveyMonkey.Read More
Watch the sun spit out a whopper X1 solar flare – CNET
The sun had an outburst on Thursday, and it could feed into some impressive aurora action on Earth.