Tesla’s Model 3 cheaper than Toyota’s Camry with tax benefits
Tesla’s rapid adjustment of its battery supply chain means all of its Model 3 vehicles qualify for federal US credits that, along with other tax breaks, could lower its price to...
Visual captions: Using large language models to augment video conferences with dynamic visuals
Posted by Ruofei Du, Research Scientist, and Alex Olwal, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Augmented Reality Recent advances in video conferencing have significantly improved remote video communication through features like...
Apple CEO Tim Cook panned for not wearing Vision Pro
Apple CEO Tim Cook was slammed Tuesday for failing to don the “Vision Pro” headset during the company’s much-anticipated reveal of its pricey new goggles. In classic Apple fashion, Cook...
Coinbase sued over crypto violations, one day after SEC sued Binance
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued Coinbase, accusing the largest US cryptocurrency exchange of operating illegally because it failed to first register with the regulator. The lawsuit is the...
AI Could Usher in a New Era of Music. Will It Suck?
Michael Sayman has worked at Facebook, Google, Roblox, and Twitter. At 26, the software engineer has already published a memoir, App Kid. But until he began work on his latest project,...
Microsoft to pay $20M for violating children’s privacy laws
Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges from the US Federal Trade Commission that it illegally collected personal information from children without a guardian’s consent. The tech giant has...
Don’t Want Students to Rely on ChatGPT? Have Them Use It
When I first caught students attempting to use ChatGPT to write their essays, it felt like an inevitability. My initial reaction was frustration and irritation—not to mention gloom and doom...
Apple Ghosts the Generative AI Revolution
After years of anticipation and contributions from thousands of people, Apple Vision Pro made its debut yesterday, promising immersion in apps, games, movies, and the workplace. With more than 20 cameras,...
EmTech Next is happening June 13-15
EmTech Next, MIT Technology Review’s signature digital transformation conference, is June 13-15, 2023. This year’s event looks at the game-changing power of generative AI, the technology, and the legal implications...
To avoid AI doom, learn from nuclear safety
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Ok, doomer. For the past few weeks,...
Price tag of Apple’s newly unveiled ‘Vision Pro’ headset draws mockery
Apple’s newly unveiled mixed-reality headset — hailed by the company as an innovation as groundbreaking as the original iPhone — drew near immediate mockery online with many scoffing at its...
Linda Yaccarino hires exec from NBC to Twitter operations team
Linda Yaccarino took the reins as Twitter’s new CEO earlier than expected on Monday — and hired a former colleague at NBCUniversal as she scrambles to prop up ad revenue...
Apple to tweak iPhone autocorrect function
One of the most notable happenings at Apple’s event for developers on Monday is likely the iPhone maker’s tweak that will keep its autocorrect feature from annoyingly correcting one of the most...
Mark Cuban says Elon Musk, Sam Altman are right to warn of potential AI doomsday: ‘It’s not an overreach’
Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other tech bigwigs are right to publicly raise alarms about possible doomsday scenarios involving advanced artificial intelligence – even though the technology is...
Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’
OpenAI boss Sam Altman is a self-admitted doomsday prepper who once bragged about his stash of guns, gold and other survival goods — long before he and other experts warned...
