Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

December 21, 2023 New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Causing a Christmas Crunch
Hotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals.
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10 min
December 20, 2023 Lamborghini’s Revuelto Is the Outstanding Hybrid of 2023
The 217-mph, 1,001-hp electrified Lamborghini Revuelto is so much fun it will make you lose the ability to speak properly.
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11 min
December 19, 2023 EU Investigates Elon Musk’s X for Spreading Illegal Content
Raising a broad range of concerns into the way X has been run under Elon Musk, EU officials also claimed graphic content of the Hamas attack on Israel had been allowed to spread widely.
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6 min
December 18, 2023 Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul
Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.
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7 min
December 15, 2023 Pinterest Is Having a Moment
Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.
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8 min
December 14, 2023 US Regulators Want Cars to Include Drunk-Driver Detection Technology
In 2021, more than 13,000 people died in US alcohol-related crashes. The top US road safety regulator is exploring tech in vehicles that could check whether a driver is drunk.
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8 min
December 13, 2023 Panasonic’s New Powder-Powered Batteries Will Supercharge EVs
A company working with Tesla’s main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes.
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12 min
December 12, 2023 OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence
LinkedIn and OpenAI cofounder Reid Hoffman says he's glad Sam Altman is leading the AI company again. Hoffman and other AI experts discussed the perils and potential of AI at a WIRED event Tuesday.
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9 min
December 11, 2023 Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
A new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas. Read the full story here.

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7 min
December 08, 2023 Why It Took Meta 7 Years to Turn on End-to-End Encryption for All Chats
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.
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11 min

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