Before the Chromebook’s “Everything” key, the PC’s Windows key, and even the Mac’s cloverleaf-like “Command” key, the Apple II keyboard’s space bar was flanked by two modifier keys bearing Apple’s iconic logomark. On the left sat a black silhouette of the apple known “Closed Apple,” and on the right, a hollow outline called “Open Apple.”
In the decades since the Apple II’s heyday, the d
Think about everything that happens as you arrive at an airport: the sensory overload of honking horns and police telling drivers to “keep moving” on the Departures level. Inside the ticketing area, you find anxious, luggage-toting travelers trying to make their way to the right line.
Checking a bag? Head to a kiosk and enter your record locator.
“Is this your trip?” the kiosk asks. (Yes.)
“What do you need to do? Print a boardi
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Does Altman’s return signal a victory of vested interests over AI safety?
The tech industry was still reverberating from OpenAI’s surprise firing of CEO Sam Altman late last week when the announce
On Tuesday night, OpenAI announced that it had reached an agreement in principle for cofounder and recently ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to the company. As part of the arrangement, the $80 billion company will also have a new board composed of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo—the latter of whom is the sole holdover from the previous board. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will also return to his old post.
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The controversial Israeli spyware maker NSO Group hints Israel has been searching for hostages using Pegasus, its notorious spyware platform linked to rampant human rights abuses. The claim comes as the tech firm mounts a renewed push to get its name off of a U.S. government blacklist.
Even after an agreement reached between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday to release 50 hostages, there are still more than 180 hostages who remain—which, if NSO’s suggestions are true, woul
The visionary founder brand is alive and well with the dramatic return of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI after five days of corporate drama the likes of which the tech industry hasn’t seen since . . . the Sam Bankman-Fried trial ended three weeks ago!
On Tuesday, I wrote about how the real brand winner in this whole imbroglio was Microsoft, in how both stating that it had hired Altman to head up its internal AI research lab and continuing its partnership with OpenAI, it hedged i
Black Friday’s creep from a single day event to a month-long one seems to be paying off for retailers.
A new report from Adobe Analytics finds that the holiday shopping season is off to a strong start with consumer spending already on a record pace.
In the first 20 days of the holiday season (November 1 through November 20), consumers have already spent $63.2 billion online, a 5% increase from a year ago. Seventeen of those days have seen people spending $3 billion
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A man stares into the camera and hits me with: “Hey everyone. Genocide is bad.” I scroll down to the next video where another guy proclaims that young liberals are “rooting for a radical Islamic Nazi death cult.” I keep scrolling, eager to get back to fantasy football commentary or dog-grooming videos.
Welcome to TikTok in 2023.
TikTok isn’t just a place for the light-hearted stuff, nor is it solely viral dance crazes, sea shanties, and g
Cedric Demers has never believed in a single best TV for most people.
As the founder and president of Montreal-based RTings, Demers has spent the last decade devising a more granular type of product review, in which practically every attribute from viewing angles to gaming responsiveness gets graded on a 100-point scale. Viewers can then compare those scores for every product to find the best fit.
“There might be one for you, but overall the best, it doesn’t