She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after allMadi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth.
Technology Is Probably Changing Us for the Worse—or So We Always ThinkFor nearly a hundred years in this publication (and long before that elsewhere) people have worried that new technologies could alter what it means to be human.
South India, led by Bengaluru and Chennai, spearhead India's tech talent surgeDespite navigating global uncertainties, tech hiring in the county is cautiously optimistic, highlighting the resilience and growth potential within India’s IT sector, the Annual Digital Skills Report FY24 from business solutions provider Quess Corp has revealed.
Someone finally made a heat pump that looks good inside your homeA new company founded by three former Googlers is looking to disrupt the somewhat staid mini-split industry. Quilt is a new “home climate system” — a ductless HVAC system that uses heat pump-powered mini-split units to heat and cool your home.
Are Smartphones Really Driving the Rise in Teenage Depression?Today—a closer critical look at the relationship between smartphones and mental health. One of the themes we’ve touched on more than any other on this show is that American teenagers—especially girls—appear to be “engulfed” in historic rates of anxiety and sadness.
Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AIone day in March 2023, Arati Prabhakar brought a laptop into the Oval Office and showed the future to Joe Biden. Six months later, the president issued a sweeping executive order that set a regulatory course for AI. This all happened because ChatGPT had stunned the world.
Project Astra is the future of AI at Google“I’ve had this vision in my mind for quite a while,” says Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind and the leader of Google’s AI efforts. Hassabis has been thinking about and working on AI for decades, but four or five years ago, something really crystallized.
Jim VandeHei on AI-Proofing the News and Ignoring ‘Twitter Nerds’Jim VandeHei has a knack for being ahead of the curve. In 2006, he bolted from the Washington Post with John Harris for the upstart Politico, which shook up Washington journalism with its aggressive style.
I Edited My Photos With These AI-Powered Apps: Here Were the ResultsKey Takeaways Enhance your photos easily with AI editing tools like Google Photos, Pixlr, Luminar Neo, and Fotor. Google Photos, Fotor, and Luminar Neo all have AI enhancement features that will give you subtle changes for better results.
The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto PrivacyIn the fall of 2020, as crypto scammers and thieves began to realize the full potential of a financial privacy tool called Tornado Cash—a clever new system capable of shuffling users' funds to cut the trail of crypto transactions recorded on the Ethereum blockchain—Alexey Pertsev, one of the cre
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The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThe sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators, plug-ins, and new features installed into apps that people already use.
The New Empires of the Internet AgeThe world today is a geopolitical hot mess. One source of that messiness is a lack of consensus among scholars and policymakers about the global distribution of power. Do we still live in a world of U.S.
I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole MovieToday OpenAI announced GPT-4o, a new AI model that will be available to free and paid users alike. Among its many upgrades—faster response times, enhanced memory capabilities, better parsing of images—is a conversational voice that tries its level best to sound like a real live human.
Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech — within limitsZeekr’s market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers.