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Start-ups couldn’t offer the same high salaries as big tech companies. Now, with companies like Meta and OpenAI willing to pay multi-million dollar salaries in the midst of the AI race, the compensation gap has become even wider. However, early-stage startups are not doomed. Founders and experts speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 say creating a generous, fair and flexible compensation strategy will allow you to offer a competitive compensation package and give you room to adjust your approach as you grow. In any case, startups shouldn’t try to compete with big tech companies, Yin Wu, co-founder and CEO of stock…
The ability to create art has long been considered a hallmark of our species. More than a century ago, prehistorians could not believe that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 12,000 years ago) were capable of artistic talent.Their doubts were soon dispelled by the discovery of undisputed ancient works of art in the caves and rock caves of Europe. But what about Neanderthals? An ancient big-brained sister group to our own species? We now know that they also had the ability to make art.However, at this time, all evidence of Neanderthals is non-figurative, with no depictions of…
Headlining science news this week is the fate of comet 3I/ATLAS as it orbits the sun.While many conspiracy theories track this comet and suggest that it is actually some kind of space probe rather than a moving snowball, what we do know for sure is that it took on a bluish hue when it reemerged from the other side of the star. This is the third time experts have seen a color change since it was discovered, most likely caused by gases such as carbon monoxide or ammonia escaping from it, but this has not yet been confirmed.But 3I/ATLAS is…
Kingdom, the pioneering new BBC series led by Sir David Attenborough, is one of the hottest nature releases of 2025 and Live Science has all the TV and streaming details. How to watch “Kingdom” Quick Guide► UK: BBC One, BBC iPlayer (from 9 November 2025)► USA: AMC+ (January 2026)► Anywhere: Unblock your favorite streaming service with NordVPN’s Black Friday sale Kingdom is billed as “one of the most ambitious wildlife series ever made” and chronicles four conflicting animal families over five years in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. In a lush corner of the park known as Nsef, the filmmakers…
When a pot of water is waiting to heat up on the stove, small bubbles are the first sign that it is ready to boil. As the water heats up, the bubbles get bigger and boiling begins when the water reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).Or is it? Anyone who has boiled water in a microwave will notice that there are no bubbles. So why do bubbles form when water is boiled in a way other than a microwave?According to fluid mechanics, when water is heated with a heating source such as a stove, nanoscale bubbles always form and…
Rivian is giving founder and CEO RJ Scaringe a new performance-based stock award that could ultimately be worth about $5 billion if all underlying goals are met, according to a new filing. Mr. Scaringe’s salary also doubled to $2 million a year, and he was also given a 10% stake in Mr. Rivian’s latest spinout, Mind Robotics, the filing shows. The announcement came just one day after Tesla shareholders voted to approve CEO Elon Musk’s compensation package worth $1 trillion, the largest in company history. Unlike Mr. Musk’s compensation package, Mr. Scaringe’s compensation is not subject to a shareholder vote.…
On Thursday, seven families filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards in place. Four of the lawsuits allege that ChatGPT was involved in a family member’s suicide, and three others allege that ChatGPT fostered harmful delusions and, in some cases, led to inpatient psychiatric treatment. In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin spoke with ChatGPT for over four hours. In chat logs reviewed by TechCrunch, Shamblin repeatedly stated that he intended to write a suicide note, load the gun and pull the trigger once he had finished drinking cider. He…
Recession fears haven’t hurt wishlist and shopping app GoWish, which is posting record numbers heading into the 2025 holiday season. The app, which has more than 13.6 million registered users, had its best day of the week, taking the No. 2 spot in the U.S. App Store on Monday. GoWish saw similar hiring trends last year, but this year has proven to be a breakthrough success. The number of users on the app has doubled since last year, and in November it broke records with hundreds of thousands of new users every day. The app has around 6.2 million users…
Qicheng Zhang used the Lowell Observatory to observe the glowing green comet 3I/ATLAS. (Image credit: Qicheng Zhang/Lowell Observatory)New images of Comet 3I/ATLAS reveal that the interstellar visitor glows green and hides its tail, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong.Qicheng Zhang, a researcher at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, used the observatory’s powerful Discovery Telescope on Wednesday (Nov. 5) to make new observations of a comet moving away from the sun. The comet recently became visible again after circling behind our star.As the comet approaches the Sun, it forms an atmosphere, or coma. This cloud of gas and dust grows…
With the launch of the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and Air in September, Apple also introduced its first crossbody strap. This allows you to wear your iPhone the same way you would carry a small shoulder bag, with the strap draped diagonally across your body. This $59 accessory has received mixed reviews so far, with some saying it’s nice and convenient, and others deciding it’s definitely not an accessory they’d want to use. Others debate whether the strap makes iPhone owners an easy target for thieves because it advertises that you’re carrying a new smartphone, or whether it deters opportunistic…