Elon Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Billionaire Elon Musk — whose businesses range from satellites to social media — was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker who praised the X owner as...
Tinder to require video selfies to verify user IDs amid dating-app crime
Tinder said Tuesday it plans to expand its ID verification requirements – including one that asks users to submit a video selfie – as crime on dating apps rises and artificial...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks deal with US, deepening ties to intelligence, military agencies
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is deepening its ties with US intelligence and military agencies through classified contracts ranging in the billions of dollars. SpaceX has long been a major partner for...
Transforming document understanding and insights with generative AI
At some point over the last two decades, productivity applications enabled humans (and machines!) to create information at the speed of digital—faster than any person could possibly consume or understand...
I went for a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic
Gary Marcus meets me outside the post office of Vancouver’s Granville Island wearing neon-coral sneakers and a blue Arcteryx jacket. I’m in town for a family thing, and Marcus has...
Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present
“An artist friend of mine got me an AI-generated painting as a gift. I can see she tried to personalize the concept, and it’s nicely framed, but part of me...
AI Is Coming for the Experts. First, It Needs Their Help
Earning up to $60 per hour, Jay was an early recruit, joining Remotasks the month before OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world. Since then, the platform has been accelerating its...
Neuralink’s first human patient able to control mouse through thinking, Musk says
The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup’s founder Elon...
New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but...
TikTok faces EU investigation for possible breaches of strict new digital rulebook
The European Union said Monday it is investigating whether TikTok has broken the bloc’s strict new digital rules for cleaning up social media and keeping internet users safe. The European...
Signs you need a new phone
You know by now your phone’s battery performance degrades the older it gets. That’s just how lithium-ion batteries work, unfortunately. With each charging cycle, they wear down a bit. Eventually, it becomes...
Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far
In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips. Source
‘Popcorn brain’ explained — how social media can ruin attention spans
This may seem corny — but if you are feeling overwhelmed by the non-stop pace of digital media and find yourself struggling to concentrate on a single task or thought,...
Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
His group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero, which includes multiple AI systems that trained independently and on a variety of situations. The algorithm...
This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times smaller and significantly cheaper than the traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs) that are often affixed...
