Mom detects son’s retinoblastoma using just her phone camera
Her life changed in a flash. A UK mom of four says she was able to detect her infant son’s rare cancer using the flash on her phone’s camera. Sarah...
Google Gemini invented fake reviews smearing my book about Big Tech’s ‘war on conservatives’
Google Gemini, the tech giant’s new AI chatbot meant to rival ChatGPT, invented several fake reviews – which it attributed to real people – meant to discredit my 2020 book...
Bumble laying off 350 workers, 30% of dating app’s workforce
Bumble announced plans to lay off 350 employers on Tuesday, reducing its headcount by 30% as part of a larger restructuring plan. Job cuts across dating app — whose defining...
Bitcoin soars above $60K as spot ETFs drive trending frenzy, lead to Coinbase crash
Bitcoin blew past $60,000 for the first time in more than two years on Wednesday as the popularity of spot ETFs drove a renewed trading frenzy for volatile cryptocurrencies —...
Elon Musk reacts to Apple’s decision to kill electric car project
Elon Musk posted a saluting emoji and an image of a cigarette to mark the demise of Apple’s electric car project. The Tesla CEO reacted to the iPhone maker’s decision...
3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI
The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, co-directed by MIT professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, celebrated its official launch on Jan. 22. The new initiative’s mission...
Coinbase users’ wallets wiped to $0 after crash as Bitcoin soared
Coinbase users were thrown into a panic Wednesday after finding that their digital wallets had suddenly been wiped out — only to find out their funds were safe and that...
Meta seeks to ‘loosen up’ Llama AI chatbot with better answers to contentious questions: report
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms is planning to release the newest version of its artificial-intelligence large language model Llama 3 in July which would give better responses to contentious questions posed by users,...
Google hit with $2.3B lawsuit by 32 media groups
Google on Wednesday was slapped with a $2.3 billion lawsuit by media giant Axel Springer and 31 other publishers, alleging that they suffered heavy losses due to the search giant’s...
