Not all emojis are created equal.
The sparkle emoji or red heart emoji are staples of text conversations and social media captions. But how often are you using the baggage claim icon or the non-potable water symbol?
Recently, a new trend has emerged: mainstream emojis are being passed over in favor of more creative alternatives. The broken heart emoji? Tired. Predictable. Th
Self-driving vehicle startups have often drawn skepticism for overpromising and underdelivering—see: Argo AI and GM’s Cruise subsidiary, both now in corporate junkyards—but in early May, one of them achieved a milestone that had long eluded the
As Zohran Mamdani declared victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday night, one had to wonder: Has anyone checked on the finance bros?
A first public test of robotaxis by Tesla in Austin, Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from company-selected riders showed over the first few days.
Chief Executive Elon Musk has tied Tesla’s financial future to self-driving technology, and with Tesla sales down, the stakes are high. He said
As you scroll through your FYP, a sweet elderly man or woman appears, asking for a moment of your attention to help save their struggling animal shelter.
“Please stay 8 seconds so I don’t have to shut down my cat shelter I poured my love into,” the text on screen reads. You stay and watch. After all, it’s only eight seconds. Maybe you even buy the slippers they’re selling to raise additional funds.
It’s a scam.
The man in the video is real, but he doesn’t run an
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Bringing AI to the doctor’s appointment
AI in healthcare is top of mind this week, thanks to a viral story on Reddit about a man who said
Stephen Miller, the hard-line Trump adviser who helped craft some of the administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement policies, is apparently profiting from the tools that make them possible, a new report finds.
According to financial disclosures cited in a new report by the Project on Government Oversight, Miller is one of a dozen current White House staffers invested in Palantir, th
Robotaxis are crashing into the rideshare market.
Drivers for apps like Uber and Lyft are growing worried about autonomous vehicles. Waymo has already deployed their vehicles across a handful of cities, taking riders from place to place without the need for a human driver. Waymo partnered with Uber in Austin, where Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Some unusual witnesses helped convict Alex Murdaugh of the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.
The first was Bubba, Maggie’s yellow Labrador retriever. Prosecutors used a recording of Bubba to place Alex at the site of the murders. Given Alex’s presence at the crime scene, other witnesses then revealed his movements, tracked his speed and explained what he had in his hands.
Danish artist Andreas Refsgaard has been combining generative AI with handcrafted prototypes to create unique glimpses of what’s ahead—a future that could one day make artists like him obsolete.
What if instead of asking AI to generate a picture, you built a cardboard model of what you wanted it to depict?
That’s exactly what Refsgaard has been exploring with his Future Mirror project, which invites students to use recycled materials to build prototypes of artifacts from