In February, Apple launched its first major new device in nearly a decade, the Apple Vision Pro. It was handily the most anticipated gadget launch of the year, with massive marketing and media hype surrounding it.
But since then, the Apple Vision Pro seems to have made less of a bang and more of a whimpe
I still remember exactly where I was when I realized I’d lost control of my Twitter account. I woke up one morning in March of last year to an email, delivered sometime in the middle of the night, stating that the password on my Twitter account had changed. I had just returned from my bachelor party, which involved bookending a long weekend of heavy alcohol consumption with cross-country flights. No longer as spry as I was in my 20s, I was coming up on my second (third?) day of recover
The tiny wires of Neuralink’s brain chip implant used in the first participant in a trial run by Elon Musk’s company have become “more or less very stable”, a company executive said on Wednesday.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has the Midas touch these days on most projects he backs. He made a fortune on the Reddit IPO and was an early investor in both Uber and Airbnb—but not everything he touches turns to gold.
Worldcoin was founded in 2019 by Altman and two others with backing from venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman. It quickly turned heads by offering free cryptocurrency tokens to people who would agree to let the company’s shiny, softball
Two state senators from across the aisle have come together to call on the Mall of America to pause its newly implemented facial recognition technology.
“Public policy concerns surrounding privacy rights and facial recognition technologies have yet to be resolved, including the high risks of abuse, data breaches, identity theft, liability and accountab
Spotify announced this week the rollout of a comments feature on its podcasts. But we’ve already seen other tools’ and websites’ comment sections devolve over the years into hate speech and polarization.
Spotify’s solution to this dilemma? Creator self-moderation.
Rather than granting everyone the ability to publish their own comments, Spotify is making creators weed through the comme
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Hedge funds hunting for artificial intelligence-related stock market bargains are rushing into South Korea’s chipmakers, betting a new wave of demand for high-end memory chips and government spending makes them more valuable.
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A UFC match wasn’t on my bingo card for this year, but ringside seats were too intriguing to pass up. Surrounded by shouting fans, my VIP perch had me at eye level to the ring with a clear view of the fighters’ grimacing faces as they circled, pounced on, and wrestled one another to the ground.
Physically, I’m nowhere near this fight, which is live-streaming from Las Vegas. Instead, I’m among 500 other guests for an immersive watch party near Los Angeles inside a three-story dome w
Over the past decade, virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence, like Apple’s Siri and