Transformers One and The Wild Robot would make a heck of a double feature.

Tesla's factory in Gruenheide, Germany. Tesla's German car factory on the outskirts of Berlin allegedly operates under a "culture of fear," and its workers take sick leave at more than three times the industry average. The plant, which was targeted by arsonists earlier this year, is now experiencing a degree of discord between workers and management, according to reports in Handelsblatt and the Guardian. "We will not tolerate some people bending their backs for others who just don’t feel like coming to work. There is no room in this factory for people who don't get out of bed in the morning," said André Thierig, manufacturing director of Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. It seems the company has been taking that directive seriously. Frustrated by a rate of sick leave that reached as high as 17 percent this summer—compared to a German auto industry average of 5.2 percent—Tesla started checking up on some employees at home, sending managers to visit 30 employees while they were on sick leave.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in happier times, holding an AirTag. of Adams—the first for a sitting NYC mayor, and one that alleges bribery from Turkish sources—we now have the same story from the government's perspective. It sounds quite a bit different. According to the feds, agents seized not one but two cell phones from Adams on November 6, 2023—but neither of these was Adams' "personal" phone, which he was not carrying. It was the personal phone that Adams allegedly used "to communicate about the conduct described in this indictment."

The small quantum processor (center) surrounded by cables that carry microwave signals to it, and the refrigeration hardware. . Recently, IBM made a couple of announcements regarding Qiskit, both benchmarking it in comparison to other software stacks and opening it up to third-party modules. We'll take a look at what software stacks do before getting into the details of what's new.

You can knock up to $400 off your pre-order of the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE when you trade in your old phone.

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved Cobenfy, a drug from Bristol Myers Squibb—the first truly novel treatment for schizophrenia in decades.

CNN will put some of its digital content behind a subscription paywall starting next month, The New York Times reports. The experiment will test similar subscription models to those used by publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, with CNN reportedly hoping to bring in additional revenue amid a decline in cable TV viewership. A “metered” paywall feature is set to launch sometime in early October that will require CNN’s more frequent readers to pay for access after exhausting a nonspecified number of free articles. CNN is the most visited news website in the US, attracting 441.4 million visits per month, according to Press Gazette. The price of this subscription model hasn’t been disclosed but will initially...

These include the Pixel Buds, Pixel Buds Pro, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and the Pixel Buds A-Series.

We tested the latest and greatest gaming laptops—from portable machines to an 18-inch gargantuan—so you can level up your game anywhere.

Amtrak fares and trip suggestions are getting integrated into Google Search as part of Google’s efforts to offer greener ways of travel over flights. Now, when you search for airline fares on Google or Google Flights between destinations with Amtrak terminals, you’ll also get suggestions for train rides that you can click through to Amtrak’s site for purchase. Google has been working on offering sustainable transport options for a while now, and it has previously shown train ride suggestions but without the fares and the easy redirection to Amtrak’s site to purchase the specific tickets — although it didn’t work every time I tried it. Google also calculates how much more carbon emissions are saved when taking a train to your destination....

In a preprint study, researchers found that training a language model with human feedback teaches the model to generate incorrect responses that trick humans.