ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure.
Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Intel and OpenAI.
Figure is less than two years old and doesn&#x
With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones, and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.
A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat it. Beating it means the player moved the
It takes hard work to engage with all the people in your life. Especially now that social media has crammed an unmanageably large number of people into our lives.
A new app puts the burden of social media engagement into AI’s hands, so to speak, but using it may leave you feeling more disconnected than ever—and coming across that way too.
On Tuesday, Nilan Saha, Vancouver-based CTO of the wellness app Juna, tweeted a video demo of his latest project: Magic Re
Oscar season always seems to feel a bit endless, but it seems even more so this year, when the Best Picture race has been all but locked up since July. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will win. The rest is just a formality at this point.
For the past couple of months, Nolan’s staggering biopic about the conflicted father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, has been decisively cutting through the field of contenders like a hot knife through butter. It won at the
For the past week-and-a-half, UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare business has been undergoing a cyberattack, which has impacted the ability of some pharmacies to fill prescriptions in a timely manner. Now the company is finally addressing who the enemy is.
The Blackcat ransomware group—which also goes by ALPHV or Noberus—has been identified as the party responsible for the hack, Change Healthcare confirmed Thursday.
“Our experts are working to add
(Reuters) -The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a proposal from Alphabet’s Waymo to expand its fared, completely driverless robotaxi services to Los Angeles and some cities near San Francisco, effective on Friday.
Waymo, which already operates in San Francisco and Phoenix, applied on Jan. 19 to expand its driverless services, saying it would work with policymakers, first responders and community organizations. Last month, the CPUC suspended the applicati
Chicago has joined a growing list of cities that have cut ties with a controversial company that tries to reduce urban gun violence with 24/7 technology that listens for the crack of gunshots and immediately notifies police.
This month, Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the city would not renew its contract with SoundThinking, the California-based company behind ShotSpotter, software that uses a network of hidden neighborhood sensors to detect the sound of gunfire.
Earlier this week, Apple officially called off its decade-long attempt to build an automobile. The project, reportedly codenamed “Titan,” went through multiple leadership and strategy changes according to the New York Times and Bloomberg, but now Apple’s cutting its losses and having its employees focus on generative AI instead.
An Apple car was always going to be a long shot, but its demise is really just a more grandiose version of Apple’s recent inabil
Facebook users in America will soon lose access to the dedicated news tab, the company has announced. In early April, Facebook will eliminate the tab, which was a feed dedicated to news stories, in both the United States and Australia. In a blog post, Facebook said the News tab is being depreciated because “people don’t come to Facebook for news and political content.”
“As a company, we have to focus our time and resources on things people tell us they wa
It’s the story that has captured the internet’s attention, giving birth to millions of memes: the disastrous “Willy Wonka experience” that took place in Glasgow, Scotland, last month and left children in tears.
The exhibit went viral after photos and testimony emerged suggesting a huge gulf between how the experience was marketed (with glitzy, larger-than-life imagery) and the reality (an empty warehouse, offering as snacks just a handful of jelly beans a