It’s 1 a.m., and my Fanfix inbox has lit up with a notification from one of the influencers I follow. “hey babe, are you busy? do you have time for me? we can chit chat :).”
The sender, @kaylavoid—a 19-year-old Instagram and TikTok influencer who specializes in lip-sync videos and beach lifestyle (read: bikini) content, and who was suggested among the platform’s “on the rise” creators when I made my account—is clearly eager for my atte
Concerns about bird flu continue to grow as a new deadly subtype spreads among wild animals and livestock, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have begun work on an experimental mRNA vaccine against the virus. And it’s already showing promising preclinical results.
The H5N1 subtype of avian flu has spread among both poultry and cattle and has already
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by January 19 or face a ban.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colu
Riddle me this: What exactly is a Chromebook?
Ask 20 people that question, and you’re bound to get 20 different answers. And for good reason: For the past decade and a half, Google has kept its ChromeOS platform in a near-constant state of evolution.
Since their debut in 2010, Chromebooks have been everything from
The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant demonstrated Tuesday how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.
Fintech firm Klarna, one of the early adopters of generative AI (GenAI), said on Tuesday it is using AI for purposes such as running marketing campaigns and generating images, saving about $10 million in costs annually.
The company has cut its sales and marketin
Search engines are undergoing significant changes of late, with many users particularly worried that generative AI could introduce new biases into the results page.
But a new study by researchers at Northeastern and Stanford suggests search was far from perfect in the first place—at least, when it comes to image results.
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, about one-third of U.S. voters still believe the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Joe Biden. That’s a troubling figure, particularly as the 2024 rematch between Biden and Donald Trump
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What happens to your contacts if you lose your phone or switch SIM cards?
Ideally, the answer should be “nothing.” If you’re properly backing up your contacts, your phone’s SIM card shoul
Effective use of AI technologies is this decade’s golden opportunity for companies, large and small. But as every software vendor claims to be “powered by AI,” “AI-ready,” or simply just “AI” – how does one separate potentially game-changing AI innovations from AI fiction? We call the seemingly instant AI-ification of everything “AI washing,” and business leaders need to be aware of this growing trend as they consider which tools to bring into their organizations.
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