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Astronaut could very legitimately be your next job

Astronaut could very legitimately be your next job

Sometime in the next few years, you could be suspended in the stars’ awesome majesty, traversing space’s vast expanse… all for just a few thousand dollars and some PTO.  The age of commercial spaceflight is here, and the burgeoning industry needs a qualified workforce. But astronauts are a limited labor pool, and few have #opentowork…

Prime number: Not crafty enough

Prime number: Not crafty enough

Your Tinder date who made liking craft beer their entire personality might soon have a harder time getting their fix. Craft brewers are in trouble after the industry expanded just as consumer tastes were moving in a different direction, the New York Times reports: The NYT attributes the struggles of these small-scale ale makers to a supply…

Another day, another multibillion-dollar OpenAI deal

Another day, another multibillion-dollar OpenAI deal

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will buy a casino’s worth of chips from Nvidia competitor AMD, the two companies announced yesterday, as part of a hefty data center deal that’s inspiring both AI confidence and bubble concerns. Under the deal’s terms: The deal will generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for AMD over the next five years, CEO…

Are you part of 996 culture?

Are you part of 996 culture?

It’s spooky season, the Great Lock-In is upon us, and the only thing scarier than ghouls and ghosts is what’s happening in Silicon Valley right now — the weekend is disappearing in the tech city.  For those of us who live for those two beautiful days, you can blame the rise of 996 culture, per The San Francisco Standard. …