Monthly Archives: August 2022

Xbox Game Pass ‘Friends & Family’ leak suggests you can share with friends

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A leak of potential branding for Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Game Pass family subscription suggests you’ll be able to share a subscription with friends, too. Microsoft started testing its Xbox Game Pass family plan in Ireland and Colombia earlier this month, and now Twitter leaker Aggiornamenti Lumia has spotted…

Employing ‘Technology Analysis’ to Determine AI Inventorship

Not long ago, Dr. Stephen Thaler, a member of the scientific community, began claiming that his artificial intelligence (AI) machine, DABUS, was a bona fide inventor. The outcome so far has been that the claim has been rejected in most jurisdictions. A notable exception is South Africa, which accepted Thaler’s patent application under “Formalities Examination”…

Randomly selected quotes from Zuck’s very, very long interview

Life is too short to listen to a 3-hour conversation between successful normal human Mark Zuckerberg and the farcically neutral Joe Rogan, so I’m taking a different tack: scrolling very fast through an extremely long transcript and picking nuggets more or less at random. Here’s what Zuckerberg thinks about various things. (These quotes have been…

Want the biggest pay rise? Then become a ‘boomerang’ worker and go back to your old employer

“Boomerang” employees can score the biggest pay rises, new research finds. Getty Images Workers going back to their former employer are winning pay rises of up to 28%, new research found. Visier, a software company, analyzed 3 million employee records at 129 global companies. It found that a typical “boomerang” employee returned just over a…

Elon Musk’s mom, Maye, says she sleeps in a ‘garage’ when she visits him because ‘you can’t have a fancy house near a rocket site’

Maye Musk, left, and Elon Musk attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Maye Musk says she has to “sleep in the garage” when she visits her son, Elon Musk,…