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When Rakuten forced employees to operate in English, it looked to many like a cultural grenade tossed into corporate Japan. Now, with AI reshaping work and global talent becoming the real battleground, that decision looks less eccentric and more like a very early blueprint for modern workforce strategy. For enterprise leaders watching how to build […]

The option would let users hide on-screen function buttons and is already available on competitor platforms such as TikTok and Reels.

Users can pay a monthly fee to disable data tracking for targeted promotions, in line with current regulations.

Scary Baboon’s latest update introduces weapons and gives players the ability to fight back.

SpaceX CRS-34, the next cargo mission to resupply the International Space Station, is counting down to its launch at 7:16 p.m. EDT today, weather pending, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The next cargo mission to resupply the International Space Station, SpaceX CRS-34, is slated for launch at 7:16 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, weather pending.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting with customer needs and working backward to technology solutions. Not prioritizing the customer can create fragmented solutions; disjointed…

If you have ever walked out of an audit feeling relieved, then uneasy a week later, you are not imagining it. Compliance vs risk management is the gap most teams live in. Your controls can look tidy. Evidence can be complete. Your enterprise compliance effectiveness score can be strong. Yet your real regulatory risk exposure […]

More meetings produce fewer decisions when responsibility is spread rather than assigned. When too many people share ownership of a topic, no one truly owns the outcome, leading to meeting inefficiency that becomes a daily operational drag in large organisations. The result is a familiar pattern: decision-making bottlenecks, rising delays in workplace collaboration, and a […]

The New York Times recently published an opinion piece suggesting that the company is at the beginning of the end, but it’s more complicated than that.

Tessa Lyons, Instagram’s vice president of product, told audiences at Scalable Summit that short-form videos may not “be enough to succeed on TV,” per ICYMI.

Five Nights At Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic’s VR support was initially put off due to poor sales of Help Wanted 2.

Simcade VR racer Downtown Club is leaving Early Access and releasing in full on both Quest and Pico on June 11.

Today it’s travel day! I’m departing to go to China to be a speaker at the VR AR Expo China in Shanghai and then travel around Southern China to meet interesting people! I’m super-hyped… get ready to read a lot on my blog about my adventures in Asia!  But now, let’s get back to the usual […]

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In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain…

I don’t make the decision suddenly. That would be easier to explain. It happens slowly. Quietly. Like most things in 2030. The Silence Between Prompts The office is almost empty again. The system hums softly around me. Invisible workflows. Silent conversations between agents. Recommendations moving through the building like electricity. My assistant waits beside the […]

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