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Happy Wednesday, Future Party. At long last, you won’t have to take your shoes off to go through security at the airport. The TSA has enforced the rule since 2001, after a man was thwarted from detonating a bomb hidden in his shoe on a commercial flight from Paris to Miami. Now, the agency says it has finally developed technology capable of properly screening footwear and is rolling it out at airports nationwide. Considering all the amazing technological innovations we’ve achieved over the past 24 years, it’s honestly shocking it took this long to create.

Companies are increasingly using AI to interview potential candidates as they become overwhelmed with applications.

Why It Hurts: While job seekers are begrudgingly aware that AI screens their resumes and applications, they used to be able to count on getting some face time with a human interviewer as the deciding factor in landing a job. But by automating that process as well, job applicants risk becoming buzzword machines just to secure employment.

Behind the Code: The chatbot will see you now.

Final Question: There are some major pros and cons to leveraging AI for job interviews. Canadian financial nonprofit Propel Impact told the New York Times that by using Ribbon AI, it was able to screen 500 applicants this year for a fellowship program, compared to just 150 the year before. This allowed the firm to offer 300 people entry into the program.

On the other hand, companies could simply offload interviewing to AI to make it appear they’re looking for candidates, even though they have no real intention of hiring anyone — it’s ghost jobs on a whole new level.

Prediction: As the use of AI job interviewers increases, expect an entire cottage industry to pop up on how to hack the conversation.

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Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Block, has developed a new peer-to-peer messaging app called Bitchat that works completely via Bluetooth.

The Big Picture: Everyone has been in a situation where cell service becomes nearly inoperable due to the sheer number of people trying to use it in a crowded area (concerts, theme parks, etc.). By allowing devices’ built-in Bluetooth to carry messages between people, an overloaded network becomes one less thing to worry about.

Behind the Messages: It’s good to be online, even when you’re offline.

The Future: Bitchat isn’t the first platform to try to solve network-less messaging. Bridgefy has been around for a while, FireChat was recently used by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, and Meshtastic utilizes long-range radio nodes to relay messages across various devices. But with Dorsey at the helm, Bitchat has the best chance of breaking out. The app, which is in beta via Apple TestFlight, has already reached its 10,000-user capacity.

Prediction: Once it’s fully released, Bitchat could add an interesting wrinkle to the modern “no-service” convention in horror movies.

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76.6% of you voted No in yesterday’s poll: Have you ever concealed from an employer that you were working multiple jobs at once?

“No, but I have concealed from an employer how much I was working for my other company.”

“Who else is part of my always necessary ‘income-generating combo’ is my business, so I’ve never felt obligated to reveal the identities of my other jobs. I’ve always managed to align my work with my available time. However, I’ve never felt any real loyalty to the companies I’ve worked for.”

“It was a scheduling nightmare. But I pulled it off for almost two years.”

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📡 AT&T has completed its $7.6 billion sale of DirecTV to PE firm TPG… taking the telecom firm entirely out of media.

🎧 Apple Music announced that Ed Sheeran’s 2017 single “Shape of You” is the most-played song on the platform.

🎥 AI firm Moonvalley has publicly released a “commercially safe” video generator.

🤑 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is now the second-richest person in the world, with his net worth bouncing somewhere between $262 billion and $282 billion.

🤖 Meta has scooped up Apple’s head of AI models for its superintelligence team.

🥴 xAI’s Grok chatbot has been given a major update to sound more like Elon Musk. Okay, then.

👚 SHEIN has filed to go public in Hong Kong in the hopes of greasing the wheels for its London IPO.

👓 Meta has acquired a 3% stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica for $3.5 billion.

🍗 Chicken shop Nando’s has opened a new restaurant inside the home of San Antonio Spurs legend Tony Parker.