The past year has been wild in the world of tech, bringing us TikTok bans, the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and a never-ending cycle of drama at OpenAI. Will things slow down in 2024, or or continue at the same breakneck pace?
We asked the experts in a number of fields about their best predictions on how the coming year will shake out.
The past year has been wild in the world of tech, bringing us TikTok bans, the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and a never-ending cycle of d
By now, we’ve all heard the worries about artificial intelligence replacing workers and laying siege to entire industries (if not the world at large). But before AI starts a war against human civilization, it’s quietly waging a war against bad meetings.
Last month, Figma, the wildly popular design platform that’s become a go-to for creatives and designers alike, launched a public beta of FigJam AI, a set of tools that are aimed squarely at improving meetings. Fi
This year saw plenty of new and evolving tech products, from blockbuster AI tools to the latest releases in popular video game series. But no product or app, no matter how popular, gets universally good reviews.
We rounded up some of the most amusing (and sometimes blistering) reviews of tech products from app stores, online merchants, and other marketplaces.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT and other large language model-based programs are some
It’s been a busy year for NASA—full of asteroid missions and collaborations with industry, other national space agencies, and the U.S. military. This year, space’s power to inspire and drive innovation reached all corners of the world.
Here’s our rundown of NASA’s greatest achievements of 2023.
OSIRIS-REx returns
It had been an incredibly long journey for the OSIRIS-REx capsule by the time it lan
Even if you’ve never touched any of Atlassian’s products, there’s a pretty good chance others in your organization—such as IT and customer service teams—use them every day. Best known for Jira, Confluence, and, my favorite, Trello, the Sydney-based company has a low profile but a big presence in collaborative enterprise software. Its products are instrumental to how many companies wrangle tasks, such as tracking support requests and managing projects. Over A
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4 of my favorite 2023 tools
Oasis is an AI dictation app that changed the way I brainstorm. It’s now my favorite tool for thinking out loud and converting loose ideas into outlines and drafts.
- How it works: Oasis records, transcribes, and summarizes my voice notes. It
Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day.
A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central New York, it plays games and music for 92-year-old Marie Broadbent, who is blind and in hospice, and in Washington state, it helps 83-year-old Jan Worrell make new friends.
The women
After all of the chaos that befell the tech sector in 2023—from Elon Musk’s militantly ignorant stewardship of the site formerly known as Twitter to the ongoing debate over whether AI poses a grave threat to humanity or just to humans’ jobs—2024 seems set to pick up right where we left off.
The AI theatrics aren’t going anywhere, nor are the crypto indictments or the erratic self-driving cars. And with the 2024 election looming, I don’t want
Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software.
You get through half the form and then come to a question with drop-down options the screen reader cannot access because the online form doesn’t conform to accessibility standards. You’re stuck. You can’t submit the application, and your time has been wasted.
Assistive technologies like screen readers go a long way toward closing the ga
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BORNHOLM, Denmark—On many maps of Denmark, the island of Bornholm appears as an inset box because it’s so far away from the rest of the country.
To get there from Copenhagen, travelers take a train to Malmö, Sweden, change to a smaller train, and then take a ferry. The island, known for granite cliffs and smoked fish, feels like a