Innovation
She Launched Her Brand With $300 and a Sewing Machine. Then She Bootstrapped It to a 7-Figure Acquisition.
Key Takeaways
Jessica Liao Mayers launched Slate Swim in 2015 with $300, a sewing machine and made-to-order products.Slate’s minimalist, seamless swimwear stood out because Mayers resisted chasing trends.Mayers bootstrapped the company, putting revenue back into production, inventory, branding and operations...
Technology
Smart Car Researcher Wants to Eliminate Stoplights
Christos Cassandras has spent more than 40 years studying how computers and machines make decisions. Lately, his work has focused on a problem nearly every driver knows well: sitting at a red light with no cross traffic in sight,...
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Amazon vows $1 billion for data center towns, warning U.S. “can’t afford to lose” AI race
Amazon's cloud computing division on Friday announced a new effort to temper opposition to data centers in some U.S. communities, while saying the U.S. "can't afford to lose" the race to dominate artificial intelligence globally. The...
Technology
Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows.Qwen, a freely available model made by...
Innovation
Why Humanity’s Rush to Use AI Has a Blind Spot Most Leaders Are Missing
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Buying a smarter tool doesn’t automatically make you better at your job, no matter how good the tool is.A governance policy is just words on a page if nobody in the...
Technology
Top Motley Fool Promo Codes for 2026
The Motley Fool is the O.G. stock and investment advice website, dating back to the early days of the Internet, when WIRED’s website was still called hotwired.com. It started as a tip sheet in the early ‘90s by brothers Tom...
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California Rushes To Prepare For Massive ‘Kelvin’ Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise – Slashdot
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fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called "Kelvin wave," a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North...
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OpenAI fires workers for mishandling ‘sensitive information’
OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work that involved an external organisation that analyses artificial intelligence (AI) models."Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking...
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Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife’s baby in ‘horrific’ robbery
Unlike money held in a conventional bank account, cryptocurrency is often controlled directly by the owner through digital wallets or physical storage devices. For criminals, that combination of speed, anonymity and irreversibility can make crypto holders attractive targets.Whilst the...
Technology
Guided Vision brings Gemini real-time visual assistance for accessibility, one year after Apple
Apple added Live Recognition to the iPhone and Vision Pro last year, and roughly a year later, Google has its answer.Guided Vision launched in Gemini Live today, giving Android users real-time audio descriptions of their surroundings. The feature relies...
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Chris Brown: US singer given suspended eight-month prison sentence over nightclub attack
On Monday, the court was shown three pieces of CCTV footage from inside Tape nightclub on the night of...