If you’re not conducting business experiments with generative AI right now, you’re probably at least thinking about it. Some businesses are exploring hundreds of use cases—and even identifying 5 or 10 that have outsize impacts on the business can be enough to drive real revenue growth, reduce costs, or both.
Those kinds of results make it easy to see why there’s so much hype around generative AI. While it’s important to have guidelines in place to
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Common Sense Privacy, an AI Fund-backed, for-profit spinoff of the nonprofit content and privacy rating organization Common Sense Media, debuted on Wednesday a new set of AI-enabled tools that aim to help startups and other small businesses keep up with ever-changing privacy regulations. Among those tools is a so-called privacy policy wizard that uses large language model (LLM) AI to generate draft privacy policies and offer advice on filling out the privacy “nutrition labels” n
Obesity, by and large, is not a problem in the land of the Little Mermaid and midcentury modern design. In Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, bicycles outnumber cars five to one, people swim laps in Nyhavn Harbor well into September, and—despite a clear fondness for pastries, hot dogs, and alcoholic beverages—apparently few people put on weight. The country has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe, though at 18.4% in 2021, it has risen considerably from 6.1% in 1987.
When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their math knowledge and teaching skills, their students’ math performance improved.
My colleagues and I developed this online professional development program, which relies on a virtual facilitator that can—among other things—present problems to the teacher around teaching math and provide feedback on the teacher’s answers.
After gasps and fits and a death rattle that lasted nearly four years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo—or E3, the video game industry’s largest trade show—is now dead and gone forever.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which hosted the event, made the announcement Tuesday morning, confirming something most of us saw coming, but still hoped would not. It truly is the end of an era, though one that might have been inevitable.
E3 was a loud,
A federal judge in Texas upheld the state’s TikTok ban on official devices and networks, rejecting a challenge brought by an organization that claimed the restrictions violated the First Amendment.
The lawsuit, filed in July by The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, had argued the ban on official devices—which extends to public universities—was impeding academic freedom and compromising on the ability of professors to teach and do
One in five messages posted on the social media platform X contain an emoji. The cartoonish representations of smiley faces, human beings, and objects have become a key part of how we communicate in the 21st century. They help us understand each other—and the world, which is why conservation biologists have called for the number of emoji to be rapidly expanded to better represent the biodiversity on our planet.
At present, the list of emoji users can deploy in conversations i
With only a few weeks left to 2023, Snapchat is cutting it close, but it will soon begin rolling out its Snapchat Recap feature to Snapchatters everywhere. Snapchat Recap, previously called Snapchat Year End Stories, gives Snapchatters a look back at some of their Memories posted throughout the year.
In 2023, Snapchat Recap includes several categories based on the Memories a user posted. The categories include:
- “New Year, New Me,” which
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire.
The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google’s Play Store. The store is the main place whe