The images on newscasts have been inescapable for the past several days. Protestors, presumed to be students, took over buildings at Columbia, facing off against police in riot gear, while on Emory University’s quadrangle, police pinned protestors to the ground, securing them with zip ties.
What made those images even more notable, though, are the lengths to which many of the protesters are going to in order to hide their identities. Keffiyehs and facemasks are commonplace. Some co
Marques Brownlee, who is perhaps the most influential tech reviewer in the world, has released a ">review of the latest AI-in-a-box device, the Rabbit R1. Even if you aren’t interested in the Rabbit R1, the review is worth a watch. Brownlee takes a moment to eviscerate the device for perpetuating a concerning trend in tech that has
Alden Global Capital has for years been lambasted as the journalism industry’s “grim reaper.” The hedge fund, which owns some 200 publications including such stalwarts as the Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, follows a
DoorDash heavily narrowed its net loss and hit new quarterly records for key metrics for the first quarter of 2024. But growth of total orders, marketplace gross order value, and revenue—while all still up double digits from the same time a year ago—is slowing from the same breakneck pace it achieved in past quarters.
DoorDash reported revenue of $2.51 billion for the first quarter, up 22% from the same quarter a year ago. Total orders gained 21% to reach 620 million, while m
Elon Musk‘s move to lay off the department responsible for Tesla’s electric vehicle charging network has touched off worries in the auto industry about plans to open the chargers to EVs made by other automakers.
Several leaders of Tesla’s Supercharger team posted social media messages saying they were told Monday night that entire group of about 500 had been laid off by CEO Musk, who seemed to confirm the
Since the public release of generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and countless other models less than a year ago, debate has swirled among educators about their potential to transform learning and upend traditional teaching norms.
Not unexpectedly, GenAI’s ability to freely and instantly create information, generate ideas, and boost knowledge—24/7—has captured the imagination of students worldwide.
Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the offing—and Amazon doesn’t seem to have programmed its voice assistant to understand the command “Alexa, stop asking me that pointless question over and over.”
I don’t mean to blame an entire class of tech products for one offender’s sin
Another week, another uneasy deal between Big Tech and the publications covering its players. OpenAI announced Monday that it had struck a deal with the Financial Times to license the newspaper’s journalistic output as training data for its large language models, which in turn power chatbots like ChatGPT.
The FT is t