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...
Paralyzed NY man can move and feel again — thanks to AI
Thank artificial intelligence for what doctors are declaring a modern medical “miracle.” A Long Island man who was paralyzed in a diving accident has regained motion and feeling in his...
The phubbing relationship trend is ruining marriages
What the actual phub??? While gazing at the stars and soaking in the beauty of the late summer’s night sky in September 2019, Heather Cox looked adoringly over at her...
Meta looks to add ‘retention-driving hooks’ as Threads users flee ‘Twitter-killer’ app
Meta executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch,...
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy...
I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto | WIRED
“We don’t take ID or anything. So long as you look over 18, we scan your iris,” said Ana Howard, the contractor hired to lead onboarding in London. But everyone...
Apple CEO Tim Cook was denied company’s credit card: report
Billionaire Apple CEO Tim Cook was denied a credit card carrying the iPhone maker’s logo because of a snafu in the company’s troubled joint venture with Wall Street giant Goldman...
Jack White auctions off Tesla after Elon Musk falling out
Jack White, the White Stripes rocker who once hailed Elon Musk as “the Henry Ford of the 21st century,” is dumping his 2013 Tesla Model S months after he lashed...
TikTok has pushed Chinese propaganda to millions of Europeans
TikTok has flooded millions of Europeans with ads from Chinese state propaganda outlets on topics like COVID-19 and tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region, according to an analysis of a...
House committee calls off vote to hold Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg in contempt
A House committee called off a vote Thursday on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to...
