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Under normal circumstances, I would be overjoyed that Amazon has rediscovered the appeal of dedicated page-turn buttons on its Kindle e-readers. Neither of my current models—a first-generation Scribe and a Colorsoft—have those buttons, and I miss them every time I pick up each device.
It’s no exaggeration to say that cloud storage has changed the way we work—and, to some extent, even the way we live. Gone are the days of having your mountains of saved emails exist only on a single local system, without easy instant access from any device in front of you—and dealing with the…
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Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media.The watchdog group urged OpenAI to restrict the chatbot to adults “until it can offer a…
The quantum computing world got a jolt when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced, after market close yesterday, a list of companies selected to advance to Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), widely considered to be the most rigorous and objective vetting…
Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to.After President Donald Trump ordered a new name for Lake Ontario, the two U.S.
Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans,…
Rohit Prasad, who led Amazon’s artificial general intelligence division and helped build and scale Alexa, has been tapped as the new CEO of Boston Dynamics. The appointment, announced earlier this week, puts Prasad at the forefront of the increasingly competitive humanoid robotics field.
At 10:08 a.m. on April 7, 2025, U.S. stocks were deep in the red. Then what looked like good news arrived: A claim began circulating on X that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, had said President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every…
Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That’s the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi, the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under a year and is now being sued by New York’s…
When the nation’s largest newspaper chain announced a deal with Palantir in August, USA Today Co. CEO Mike Reed framed it as a necessary modernization step for a print-heavy publisher.
Donald Trump didn’t become one of the world’s most recognizable businessmen by worrying too much about keeping everyone happy. What Trump wants, Trump tends to pursue, consequences be damned. But his administration’s new AI task force may require a different touch.
For more than a decade, the story of drone delivery was about improving the technology and getting federal permission for the drones to take to the airwaves. Could companies get the Federal Aviation Authority to approve flights beyond the operator’s line of sight?
Last year, video platform Vimeo announced plans to sell itself for $1.38 billion to tech company Bending Spoons.Milan-based Bending Spoons, which since its founding in 2014 has acquired more than 50 businesses, including Evernote, AOL, Eventbrite, and Meetup, soon faced questions from Vimeo users…
The 2026 U.S. midterm campaigns are the first in which AI-generated political ads are regularly appearing on people’s televisions and social media feeds. We are researchers who have been studying political advertising through the Wesleyan Media Project since 2010.
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Some of South Korea’s biggest banks have been hacked with the assistance of an artificial intelligence agent, opening up a new front in the AI and cybersecurity worlds.
The NBA is experimenting with two pieces of technology in the leadup to the season, the league announced Monday.Select exhibition games will include a smart basketball that has a Bluetooth sensor in it and can collect data for future use in real-time officiating decisions.
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