On Wednesday, Apple unveiled its picks for the top apps and games of 2023, highlighting a collection that focuses heavily on personal exploration and growth.
Apps honored in platform-specific categories included the outdoor exploration tool AllTrails for iPhone, the workout guide SmartGym for Apple Watch, beauty planning app Prêt-à-Makeup for iPad, and the arthouse-adjacent film streamer Mubi for Apple TV. Only in the Mac category, where the award went to photo-editing too
Michael Rubin, the billionaire CEO of Fanatics, splits his time between three primary residences—four, if you count the new $70 million pied-à-terre in the Hollywood Hills, overlooking downtown Los Angeles. Tuesdays through Thursdays are reserved for his penthouse in New York’s Greenwich Village, not far from the main Fanatics headquarters. Thursday nights, it’s back to Philadelphia, where he grew up, and where his eldest daughter is finishing high school—unle
Elon Musk has told fleeing X advertisers to “go fuck yourself” in a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times DealBook Summit yesterday. Even by Musk standards, the X owner and Tesla CEO said some truly wild and cringeworthy things.
“Go fuck yourself”
If there was one takeaway phrase from the entire interview, it was this. Sorkin addressed Musk’s recent endorsement of antisemitic comments and the subsequent fl
ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence’s breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of conversations snowballed across social media, and the use of ChatGPT skyrocketed to an extent that seems to have surprised even its maker, OpenAI. By January, ChatGPT was seeing 13 million unique visitors each day, setting a record for the fastest-growing user base of a consumer application.
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police, hundreds of thousands of Americans risked arrest, taking to city streets crowded with combative police forces and drones. Law enforcement agencies treated these protests against police brutality and systemic racism not only like crime scenes, but also like foreign terrorism investigations. Over the span of 20 days, the FBI searched information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Today marks the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT’s public debut. The chatbot, which was released to the public as a sort of research sandbox, helped catalyze an massive AI arms race in Silicon Valley and a corresponding push for AI integration across products and sectors.
To mark ChatGPT’s anniversary, we asked 41 AI experts, business leaders, and other stakeholders a simple question: How will generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney be applied over the next year
Max Bennett is the cofounder and CEO of Alby, a startup that helps companies integrate large language models into their websites to create guided shopping and search experiences. Bennett holds several patents for AI technologies and has published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on the topics of evolutionary neuroscience and the neocortex. He has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list as well as the Built In NYC’s 30 Tech Leaders Under 30.
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The U.K. intends to join Spain and Portugal to build a new small-sat constellation to improve climate change research and disaster monitoring.
The U.K. Space Agency announced its plan last week to participate in the Atlantic Constellation project, an initiative led by the Iberian nations, at the U.K. Space Conference in Belfast.
The details
The first phase of the constellation will include four spacecraft—three built by Portugal and one built by the U.K.
The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms.
The companies that own the platforms can—and do—remove, promote, or limit the distribution of any posts, according to corporate policies. But all that might soon change.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear five cases during this current term, which ends in June 2024, that collectively give the court the opportunity to reexamine the nature of content moderation 
Layoffs have hit the tech industry hard in 2023, and now another round is hitting even more employees. The latest company to lay off employees is ByteDance, owner of TikTok. The layoffs, which are expected to officially be announced today, will hit employees working for its Nuverse gaming division, Reuters first reported.
According to the report, ByteDance will wind down its Nuverse gaming division after the fledgling unit has failed to compete with other mobile gaming giants like N