New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery
Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these...
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes cries during first prison visit with husband Billy Evans, parents
Distraught Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was spotted crying throughout a seven-hour reunion with her family last weekend – less than a week after she reported to federal prison in Texas...
Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time
I’d be surprised if Andreessen’s highly educated audience actually believes the lump of labor fallacy, but he goes ahead and dismantles it anyway, introducing—as if it were new to his...
Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront
There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems and challenges. While their adoption, particularly with the rise...
Google tells East Coast employees to work from home over Canadian wildfire
Google allowed employees in New York City and other East Coast locales to work from home to avoid dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires – even as the tech giant warned...
The Strangely Believable Tale of a Mythical Rogue Drone
Did you hear about the Air Force AI drone that went rogue and attacked its operators inside a simulation? The cautionary tale was told by Colonel Tucker Hamilton, chief of AI...
All the Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Land a Job | WIRED
(ChatGPT via David Nield) When you’ve decided on the types of jobs you want, a chatbot can help you understand anything from finding out what a typical day looks like,...
Instagram algorithm boosted ‘vast pedophile network’: report
Instagram’s recommendation algorithms linked and even promoted a “vast pedophile network” that advertised the sale of illicit “child-sex material” on the platform, according to the findings of an alarming report...
Chinese government tracked Hong Kong protesters with TikTok: suit
A former executive at TikTok parent ByteDance claimed Chinese Communist Party officials had access to a “god credential” on the social media platform that allowed them to track pro-democracy protesters...
Safety concerns over iPhone iOS 17 software update emerge
Apple has released information about its new software update this week, with the iPhone becoming more intuitive than ever before. However, one new update – called Check In – has...
Teen drains family’s savings of $64K — by buying mobile games
It’s not all fun and games. A teen in China drained her family’s life savings on video games, buying a whopping $64,000 worth of pay-to-play mobile entertainment. Gong Yiwang, mom to...
Mark Walters suing ChatGPT for embezzled ‘hallucination’
OpenAI has been slapped with its first-ever defamation lawsuit after a ChatGPT “hallucination” generated a bogus embezzlement complaint against a Georgia radio host, according to a lawsuit. Mark Walters was...
GameStop fires CEO, names Ryan Cohen executive chairman
GameStop fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman, sending the company’s shares down 20% in extended trading. A former executive at...
Apple ‘jumped the shark’ with Vision Pro headset: Tony Fadell
Apple officially “jumped the shark” with its release of the $3,499 “Vision Pro” mixed-reality headset, according to a former company executive widely credited as the “father of the iPod.” Tony...
Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId
Posted by Thibault Sellam, Research Scientist, Google Previously, we presented the 1,000 languages initiative and the Universal Speech Model with the goal of making speech and language technologies available to...
