Select all the images of a panda wearing glasses. Nope, wrong — try again, idiot. Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by a Captcha recently. Now that we all have our hands up: Yeah, Captchas have gotten harder, per The Wall Street Journal. OK, but why? Captchas — Completely Automated Public Turing tests — were created to…
More workers across the country no longer have to fear bumping into their boss on a night out, but it has nothing to do with their familiarity with the chill neighborhood spots—it’s because the higher-ups are in a different city. There’s been a rapid increase in long-distance direct reporting since the hybrid/remote work transition as managers concentrate…
In 2021, Facebook became Meta, driven by Mark Zuckerberg’s infatuation with the metaverse — a concept that we’ve heard increasingly about as AI has come to dominate today’s tech buzz. But long before Facebook’s pivot, Google attempted its own foray into a nascent metaverse. In 2003… … Linden Lab launched Second Life, a virtual platform…
Who’s sadder after a trip to the vet: your pup donning a plastic cone, or you, sweatily clutching a $8k bill? Anyone who owns a pet knows that when they’re not feeling well, you’ll do anything to fix it. Unfortunately, Big Vet also knows that. And it’s been sinking its claws into independent vet practices and small…