“So no one else uses chatgpt as an unpaid therapist?” TikTok user Ash Donner asks in a video. While her friends seem shocked by her confession, she’s not alone. A growing number of people are turning to ChatGPT to ask for help navigating friendships, romantic relationships, or for general advice on how to live a better life.
Federal regulators who say Google holds an illegal monopoly over the technology that matches online advertisers to publishers are vastly underestimating the competition the tech giant faces, an expert hired by Google
In 1859, Charles Darwin unveiled a theory of Evolution that shook the scientific world: the survival of the fittest, where nature thrives on ruthless competition and efficiency. This dog-eat-dog approach profoundly influenced how millions perceive progress for over a century—we celebrated competition (at the expense of compassion) as the engine of evolution.
Fast-forward, now, to the 21st century. We’re at an exciting and brave time where technology is bending the very arc of what
A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, security-conscious people are hunting out tools like Tor, the anonymous communications network, says Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications at the Tor Project.
The Tor Project is the nonprofit organization that maintains the Tor network. And Zoneff was in Berlin, Germany, earlier th
Keith Gill (aka “Roaring Kitty”) returned to social media this summer. Three years earlier, the Reddit influencer had helped sparked a meme stocks craze among retail investors that led to the GameStop stock short squeeze. The surge in stock price was a disaster for online brokerage platform Robinhood: The company halted the trading of GameStop and other stocks in January 2021 for a day and then only let consumers close out trades on the stock, barring them from placing new ones. Robinhood an
It’s not news that Gen Z and millennials are using social media platforms to get their news nowadays. No longer just a place to watch your favorite steamer play League of Legends for 10 hours, Twitch is the latest social media platform joining the likes of X and TikTok as a destination
The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) published this week an analysis of the global efforts to mitigate the proliferation of space debris.
In the report, the institute found that space debris mitigation efforts from governments, NGOs, and companies are gaining steam.
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For about a decade, Meta has been working on an audacious project: AR glasses stylish enough to pass as regular eyewear, and yet so powerful that they could one day replace the smartphone. “When we started, we actually thought that there was less than a 10 percent chance that we could make it happen,” admits Meta AR devices VP Ming Hua.
And yet, at this week’s Meta developer conference, the company showed off Orion: An AR glasses prototype that comes closer to this vision than any other dev
Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has rolled out a major new update to protect young people and give parents more control.
With many teens spending
On September 24, Ubisoft abruptly canceled its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show and postponed all press previews of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Wednesday, we learned why. Anti-DEI backlash has sent the company spinning.
The Paris-based video game publisher pushed the release of its biggest game of the year from November 12 to February 14 of next year—and warned investors that net bookings would no longer exceed the 2.3 billion euros of last year, but come in at