How the Internet Was InventedIn 40 years, the internet has morphed from a military communication network into a vast global cyberspace. And it all started in a California beer garden.
2024 AI Elections TrackerAs more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters.
Is Robotics About to Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment?Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes.
The Quiet Danger of Noise-Canceling HeadphonesNoise-canceling headphones offer a tech bro’s solution to the world of sound. They deem everything in your natural environment as “noise” that can be canceled out, allowing you to purely listen to your devices.
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AIStudents have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows.
People are afraid of self-driving cars — can the industry change that?Self-driving cars have an image problem. They stumble into construction zones, block ambulances, run red lights, and even injure the occasional bicyclist or pedestrian. Forget the fact that most autonomous vehicles operate each day safely, anonymously, and without fanfare.
How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI EnglishWe’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have guessed. Let’s delve deeper. If you’ve spent enough time using AI assistants, you’ll have noticed a certain quality to the responses generated.
Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy ApplicationThe upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves, essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output—which itself yields no greenhouse gasses.
One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s ProblemA man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak spot in the business model behind the world’s biggest music platforms.
How Meta’s global head of safety approaches online age verification“The ability to know somebody’s age and try to protect privacy at the same time can be challenging,” says Meta’s Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis.
The AI That Could Heal a Divided InternetIn the 1990s and early 2000s, technologists made the world a grand promise: new communications technologies would strengthen democracy, undermine authoritarianism, and lead to a new era of human flourishing. But today, few people would agree that the internet has lived up to that lofty goal.
How AI 50 Companies Are Powering A New Tech EconomyLast year generative AI moved from the background to the foreground of the AI 50 list. This year it is front and center as we see the beginnings of major AI productivity gains for both enterprise customers and consumers. Although the majority of 2023’s AI venture funding in the U.S.
Is it the school, or the students?Are schools that feature strong test scores highly effective, or do they mostly enroll students who are already well-prepared for success? A study co-authored by MIT scholars concludes that widely disseminated school quality ratings reflect the preparation and family background of their students as
Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill GoogleAI is coming for the search business. Or so we’re told. As Google seems to keep getting worse, and tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot seem to keep getting better, we appear to be barreling toward a new way to find and consume information online.