Elon Musk’s X sign removed from San Francisco HQ after complaints
It is gone. A giant, glowing X no longer marks the spot on the San Francisco high-rise that is headquarters to Elon Musk’s messaging company X, formerly known as Twitter. The...
X reorganizes trust and safety team under Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino
X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as Twitter, the social media concern said Monday. X’s product and...
Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg had falling out over the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg “was just done” with the Meta boss after he made the decision to pivot the company away from its bread-and-butter social media-based business and...
Using AI to protect against AI image manipulation
As we enter a new era where technologies powered by artificial intelligence can craft and manipulate images with a precision that blurs the line between reality and fabrication, the specter...
Restaurant owner hires robot to help servers; diners divided
Diners watched, bemused, as Plato approached their table. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall robot spun and paused, presenting them with their lunch. No one moved, unsure of what would come next, until a...
What Isaac Asimov’s Robbie Teaches About AI and How Minds ‘Work’
In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction story “Robbie,” the Weston family owns a robot who serves as a nursemaid and companion for their precocious preteen daughter, Gloria. Gloria and the...
Facebook removed COVID-19 posts under White House pressure: report
Facebook removed content related to COVID-19 under pressure from the White House, including posts claiming the virus was man-made, according to internal company communications leaked to The Wall Street Journal....
Stephen King clearly isn’t a fan of Twitter’s ‘X’ rebrand
Master of horror Stephen King sent a chilling tweet about Elon Musk’s controversial decision to rebrand the social media platform as X. “Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter,” the “It” author...
Elon Musk touts record number of X users as Threads stumbles
Elon Musk boasted that his rebranded site X has hit its highest user totals – as rival Mark Zuckerberg scrambles to add new features to halt the massive dropoff in...
