People unable to detect 1 in 4 speech samples as deepfakes
These deepfakes seem real to a startling number of people. Humans are unable to detect over a quarter of deepfake speech samples made by artificial intelligence, according to new research...
Texas researchers invent cup that purifies contaminated water
Austin, Texas – A team from the University of Texas at Austin developed a mug-sized, cube-shaped device that can use battery-generated electricity to eliminate bacteria from contaminated water. The new device is a...
Elon Musk says fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be live-streamed on X
Elon Musk said in a social media post that his proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be live-streamed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The...
Elon Musk’s X to fund legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated unfairly by employers because of...
Google parent Alphabet dumps 90% of its stake in Robinhood
Google parent Alphabet said Friday it had slashed its stake in Robinhood Markets by nearly 90%, cutting its exposure to the trading app operator that has been grappling with a slowdown in...
I’m a fake Jersey Shore influencer — it’s not what you think
She’s a figment of our dystopian imag-AI-nation. An AI influencer named Vicki Verano, who says she’s from the Jersey Shore, has racked up over 57,000 followers since joining X, the...
Jeff Bezos’ wealth balloons by $12B as Amazon stock soars 11%
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos saw his personal net worth increase by a whopping $12 billion on Friday morning as the e-commerce giant’s stock price soared by some 11% in pre-noon...
NASA relinks with Voyager 2 after accidentally losing contact
They thought it was gonna be a long, long time. NASA has successfully “reestablished full communications” with Voyager 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with...
Google wins antitrust ruling in battle with states over search engine
A federal judge struck down parts of an antitrust lawsuit brought against Google’s parent company Alphabet by state attorneys general who allege the search giant abused its competitive advantage to...
Google luring workers to office with special rate at on-site hotel
Google hopes that offering its staffers a “summer special” at a hotel located on its Mountain View, Calif., campus will lure them back to the office. The search giant said...
The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking of the moon, how could...
Apple loses its $3 trillion market value as stock dips
Apple’s stay as the world’s only $3 trillion company was short-lived Friday — a day after the company reported its third consecutive quarter of declining sales due to weak iPhone...
Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?
Ever since the ChatGPT API opened up, all sorts of apps have been strapping on AI functionality. I’ve personally noticed this a lot in email clients: Apps like Spark and...
It’s summer! Protect your tech from the heat
Tech is expensive, and there are endless ways to ruin yours. While we’re talking money, I put together a list of tech freebies you can grab right now. Now, some...
Mark Zuckerberg’s wife scolds him for building backyard octagon
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hard-core training in mixed martial arts hasn’t prepared him to face his toughest opponent — his wife. Priscilla Chan chastised her billionaire husband after the Facebook...
