Robotic boots providing superhuman reflexes can help your balance. Our new study shows that the key to augmenting balance is to have boots that can act faster than human reaction times.
When people slip or trip, their reactions to regain balance are far slower than some machines can act. For humans, and other animals with legs, it takes time for biological sensors to send signals to the nervous system and then turn on muscles. Robots can act much faster, using wi
The Supreme Court has been signaling for a while now that it wants to take up a case about online content moderation. This week, it’ll get two.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the court will hear arguments in two cases that stand to radically upend the way companies sort, filter, and remove content on the internet, and would potentially make those companies liable for the worst content on their platforms.
The cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both arise fr
The social media blue badge verification system is further losing its original meaning on additional platforms. On Sunday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook and Instagram would begin selling paid verification for a monthly fee. The new paid verification program comes in the wake of Twitter Blue’s subscription service last year, which allows subscribers to get a blue verified badge next to their name.
Zuckerberg’s solution is officially called Meta Verifi
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Google Forms is the drab frock of survey tools. It’s functional, but since its 2008 launch, its features and design have stagnated. Tally is a terrific new form creation tool that lets you create questions as easily as you’d create a Google Doc. Read on for survey ideas and free templates as well as limitatio
Full disclosure: As a writer of stories that are highly dependent on search traffic, I’m naturally biased about the value of links in search results.
But as someone who also conducts a lot of web searches, I’m also convinced that the new wave of generative AI search engines—most notably Microsoft’s ChatGPT-infused version of Bing—are missing the point. Instead of fixating on direct answers to users’ questions, they should be using their natu
Clarkesworld Magazine is no stranger to tales of artificial intelligence impacting society, but in a sad and wild case of life imitating art, the Hugo Award-winning magazine has had to temporarily close its doors to submissions due to it being bombarded with people filing science fiction stories ostensibly written by ChatGPT.
Clarkesworld Magazine editor Neil Clarke made the announcement on Twitter yesterday with the simple statement, “Submissions are currently closed. It sho
As lawmakers work to understand generative AI, some of the more tech-focused among them fear a repeat of Congress’s flat-footed response to the last big tech wave, social media.
Beginning in the Bush years and continuing through the Obama administration, tech companies kept Washington largely at bay with promises to “self-regulate” on key issues such as privacy protection, child safety, disinformation, and data portability.
Many in Washington now belie
Micromobility startup Lime announced Tuesday that it was profitable throughout 2022 on an adjusted EBITDA basis—making it the first micromobility company to post a full profitable year, it said.
The company said it achieved a record $466 million in gross bookings last year, which is a 33% jump from 2021. It also posted adjusted EBITDA of $15 million. EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, and can be used to measure a company’
Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food, and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals.
Large chains like Panera and P.F. Chang’s as well as neighborhood hangouts are increasingly experimenting with the subscription model as a way to ensure steady revenue and customer visits. Some offer unlimited drinks or free delivery for a monthly fee; others will bring out you
The Supreme Court heard two and a half hours of often confusing, and at times frustrating, arguments on Tuesday in a case that could determine whether platforms are protected from liability for their recommendation tools. In Gonzalez v. Google, the court is considering whether Section 230 ought to protect tech platforms that recommend harmful user content. Part of the problem, it was plain to see, was that Section 230 simply wasn’t written to answer this sort of dilemma: The law is 30