Elon Musk achieved platinum meme status and got ridiculed on Saturday Night Live for gleefully leaping onstage at a Trump rally over the weekend. But a photo of Trump glowering as the Tesla tycoon flung himself skyward was far from Musk’s mos
The largest supplier of drinking water and wastewater services in the U.S. is the latest target to be hit by hackers.
American Water Works, which provides drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people in 14 states and on 18 military installations, said hackers breached its computer networks and systems on Thursday.
Taking protective steps after becoming aware of the unauthorized activity, including shutting down certain systems, the New Jers
When ChatGPT launched two years ago, it blew open the doors to a new way to search for information online. Instead of sifting through a search engine’s list of links, users can now query a chatbot and get an actual answer. Today, AI titans like Google and OpenAI and upstarts like Perplexity are all working on their versions of AI overviews and answer engines—new ways to deliver
Technology is inherently neutral. Whether it is used for good or evil depends upon whose hands it lands in—and what they do with it. At least, so goes the argument that most of us have come to accept as a framework for assessing—and potentially regulating—the role of artificial intelligence.
We have all read about AI’s benefits as celebrated by techno-optimists, and the risks warned by
In the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Helene in the United States this week, a new storm emerged on social media — false rumors about how disaster funds have been used, and even claims that o
A lot has been said about the potential—both good and bad—for artificial intelligence to transform the way many industries will operate in the future. As director of innovation for a top-ranked architecture, engineering, and consulting firm, I welcome these new developments and believe there is a huge opportunity for the firms that capitalize on them now.
At its core, this is an exercise in change management, and we all know that in our industry, we can be slow to embrace new thing
At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high-level women to mentor each other to achieve personal and professional happiness through sisterhood. As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I am honored to interview and share insights from thought leaders who are part of our peer-to-peer mentoring.
This month I introduce to you Shannon Leininger, president of Cisco Canada. She will share insights on today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape and why con
Three in 10 of the Dutch population visit Stripchat, PornHub, or XVideos every month—compared to 16.4% of Germans. But both countries pale in comparison to Spain, where 59.4% of people log onto a porn site every month.
That’s according to a new analysis by Mathias Vermeulen, director of AWO, a data rights agency based in Europe. Vermeulen trawled through the data released by the three adult platforms, who come u
Loneliness is reaching epidemic levels, driving up cases of anxiety, depression, and contributing to record-high suicide rates. Carter Barnhart, founder of the virtual mental health platform Charlie Health, says the issue goes beyond simple explanations like social media overuse. Rather, she points to our collective inability to connect. Barnhart seeks to build a collaborative solution to help people relearn the power of authentic connection. (Note: Today’s Rapid Response incl
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chem