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Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

"So many of the employees feel like they're in limbo right now," said Erin Sumner, a global director of human resources at DeleteMe, who was laid off from Facebook in November

War, peace and environmental devastation

In The Long Reckoning, Black unites his areas of expertise in international affairs and the environment to explore a landscape littered with the detritus of war

Work from the office, get laid off at home: Was that a good idea?

With offices open again, and remote work more common, companies now have options - and it's not necessarily clear what is best for workers

Meaner than the metaverse

If the internet is the fictional doctor and scientist Bruce Banner, furtive and a little troubled but basically benign, meganets are Incredible Hulks, snarling and uncontainable

Everything, everywhere in one big book

Historically, encyclopaedias have been thick tomes for a reason: They are made to encompass all knowledge, leaving nothing to guesswork

Down and out in paradise

The book examines the persistence of want in the wealthy United States, finding that keeping some citizens poor serves the interests of many

OpenAI's Artificial Intelligence language model GPT-4 is exciting, scary

Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate

Betrayal and survival

In The Collaborators, some readers may find Buruma's permissiveness toward his subjects' conduct and moral barometers disturbing

Topol, star of 'Fiddler on the Roof' onscreen and onstage, dies at 87

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange

Many employers mislabelling workers as managers to avoid paying overtime

New evidence shows that many employers are mislabelling rank-and-file workers as managers to avoid paying them overtime

The electrome syndrome

Sally Adee has written an absorbing and fast-paced account of a field of research that could thus herald a whole new era of paradigm-shifting medicine

As AI booms, lawmakers struggle to understand the technology

The inaction over A.I. is part of a familiar pattern, in which technology is again outstripping U.S. rule-making and regulation

Inside Taiwanese chip giant, US expansion stokes tension: Report

Internal doubts are mounting at the Taiwanese chip maker over its US factory, according to interviews with 11 TSMC employees

Looking for job? Cannabis industry going on a hiring high in NY

The creation of new jobs would be a boon for New York City, which has lagged behind the rest of the country in recovering employment lost during the pandemic

Palo Alto, Marxian nightmare

Harris seems to acknowledge that some developments that have taken place under capitalism, such as FDR's New Deal, are actually better than others

'I want to be human, not a bot': Microsoft's Bing AI is anything but...

Microsoft's new Bing search engine, which is powered by artificial intelligence, has been offering an array of inaccurate and at times bizarre responses to some users

Electric vehicles likely to equal petrol cars in price this year: Report

The tipping point when EVs become as cheap or cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines could arrive this year for mass market models and is already the case for some luxury vehicles

A media mogul's toxic legacy

We see in precise detail the misogyny of Redstone's lust as he decides that his wealth and professed love for these women give him something like the rights of a king

Early globalisation and its discontents

"Globalisation," as we call it today, was never universally beneficial or beloved, and underneath it coursed a growing discontent

How a drug company made $114 billion by gaming the US patent system

The incident has become a case study in how drug companies artificially prop up prices of their best-selling drugs