As 2023 comes to a close, it has become evident that the once-unstoppable global AI race is quickly transforming into a mad dash.
Just this month, The Arena Group, which operates Sports Illustrated, unceremoniously fired its CEO Ross Levinsohn weeks after the publication was found to have published articles written by fake authors with AI-created biographies and headshots. (The Arena Group has insisted that Levinsohn’s ouster “had absolutely nothing to do with the AI i
Advertising! The majority of people spend a significant portion of their day actively trying to avoid ads, but the ones that are truly remarkable—good and bad—break through that default allergy to excite, delight, and enrage us. That’s what makes this slice of commercial culture distinct. These ads, combined with high-quality products to back it up, are what forge the often inexplicable emotional connections we have with brands.
This is why we’re consider
This was a busy year for Apple. Not only did the company make one of the most dramatic changes to the iPhone in over a decade, but it also introduced a revolutionary new product with the Vision Pro headset. These were two of Apple’s biggest hits of 2023.
Yet it wasn’t all roses for Apple this past year. The company had some big failures, which frustrated general consumers and the longtime Apple faithful alike. Here are Apple’s biggest misses of 2023.
We’ve all, at some point or another, seen an ad on our phone or television that just happens to be for a product we were just discussing with a friend. For instance, you might tell a friend over lunch that you need a vacation and suddenly get bombarded with travel ads, or mention that you need to find a house painter and get a half-dozen ads for local painting companies. While many have suspected that our phones are listening to us, the consensus among the tech community was that just
As 2024 nears, it’s time to look ahead to what this year may bring in terms of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity costs are predicted to rise globally to $10.5 trillion by 2025 as cybercrime becomes more sophisticated. No doubt we will see more artificial intelligence (AI) being leveraged for nefarious uses, and social engineering-style attacks such as phishing are also likely to rise. Here are five predictions for what 2024 will bring.
1. Advanced phishing
We’ve a
Substack is back in the news lately, though this time it’s not for looming money problems. It’s for worse problems—Nazi problems. At the end of November, The Atlantic published a piece by writer Jonathan Katz titled simply, “Substack has a Nazi problem.” His argument was essentially that the newsletter-publishing platform hosts, so therefore profits from, a larger number of white-supremacy newsletters than he—and for that matter, most regular rea
The key to a nation’s long-run prosperity is increased productivity. If workers can produce more in an hour, day, or week then they can collectively work less or enjoy more of the fruits of their labor: More pickleball courts and more time to play pickleball.
With all the astonishing improvements that we see on our computers and smartphones, it might seem that productivity is about to explode, that our concern will soon be how to distribute income and manage leisure when mach
Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Whether it refutes or confirms their suspicions likely depends on where they live.
Women outnumber men in the largest urban counties east of the Mississippi River, along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South, while the West skews male, according to data released last week from the 2022 American Commu
Considering all the data we now store about our lives on our smartphones and in the cloud, it’s no wonder digital privacy is at the forefront of many consumers’ minds. The good news is that major technology companies—including some historically not very privacy-minded—have stepped up recently to improve user privacy.
Here are the companies that provided their customers with more privacy protections in 2023.
Apple
It’s no surpr
Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized healthcare, dramatically decreasing death from disease and improving quality of life across the globe. But how do researchers, universities and hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry decide which diseases to pursue developing drugs for?
In my work as director of the Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evidence Synthesis group at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, I assess the effectiveness and safety of d