
The Guardian - 1 day 1 hour ago
Faster laptop-level power, rapid wifi and 5G, plus much-improved multitasking make the middle iPad highly capable beyond just watching TV The latest iPad Air is faster in almost all facets, packing not just a processor upgrade but improvements to most of the internal bits that make the tablet work, providing laptop-grade power in a skinny, adaptable touchscreen device. The new iPad Air M4 costs from the same 599 ( 649/$599/A$999) as the outgoing M3 model from last year and again comes in two sizes...

Newser - 1 day 1 hour ago
OpenAI is facing a novel accusation in federal court: that its chatbot is effectively playing lawyer without a license. Nippon Life Insurance Company of America sued the ChatGPT maker in Chicago, claiming the AI tool encouraged a former disability claimant to undo a settled case, then helped her bombard the...

Financial Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
People are now little better than chance at telling what's real and what's not...

Financial Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
Can chatbots solve the social isolation epidemic?...

Observer - 1 day 11 hours ago
dTelecom's Petr Malyukov examines the massive shift underway beneath the A.I. economy. As Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft prepare to spend a combined $650 billion on A.I. infrastructure, Malyukov argues that the real competitive advantage is moving below the application layer to the compute, energy and networks that power modern A.I. systems.

BBC - 1 day 12 hours ago
We speak to a "chatter" on OnlyFans, who sends explicit messages on behalf of models.

NPR - 1 day 12 hours ago
These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876.

GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours ago
After years of rumors, Apple may be getting ready to introduce a new kind of MacBook – with a touchscreen. According to a report in the latest "Power On" newsletter by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the company is working on a high-end laptop that could sit above the current MacBook Pro lineup. Internally, it's being described […] Read the original article here: Apple's new touchscreen MacBook could be its priciest laptop ever...

Air and Space - 1 day 14 hours ago
Beyond the scenery, the Cowboy State offers a deep immersion into a working culture that has survived and thrived for over a century...

New York Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
At Moltbook, agents based on a software called OpenClaw can chat with each other, much like people do on Facebook and Instagram.

Sky News - 1 day 14 hours ago
Google's AI can identify breast cancer better than a human doctor, and potentially save the stretched NHS a huge amount of time and effort, a new study shows.

New Scientist - 1 day 15 hours ago
Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development...

Financial Times - 1 day 15 hours ago
Ecommerce giant says there has been a trend of incidents' linked to Gen-AI assisted changes'...

Observer - 1 day 17 hours ago
Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi aims to bridge humans and machines with the Stream ring, an A.I.-powered wearable debuting this summer.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 18 hours ago
Every frame TV has an "art store," but that's not the only way to add images.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 19 hours ago
Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is a way to do computing on encrypted data without ever having it decrypted. It's called fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE. But there's a rather large catch. It can take thousands even tens of thousands of times longer to compute on today's CPUs and GPUs than simply working with the decrypted...

The Conversation - 1 day 19 hours ago
The ancient Greek word phronesis means practical wisdom. It's about choosing the right action at the right time for the right reasons, helping you apply the other virtues correctly.

The Conversation - 1 day 19 hours ago
It makes sense for companies and organizations to outsource key internet services, but with those services in the hands of a few corporations, failures have a wide impact.

Air and Space - 1 day 20 hours ago
Known as samphire, sea beans, glasswort or pickleweed, Salicornia thrives in high-saline environments, like coastal marshes, and has a lot of nutritional and medicinal properties...

NY Post - 1 day 20 hours ago
There have been multiple accounts of people getting diagnoses for lymphoma as well as conditions like lupus and AFib after wearable metrics convinced them to see a doctor. The Post spoke to three patients.

The Atlantic - 1 day 21 hours ago
The technology may not be ready to replace workers, but that isn't stopping execs from pushing forward anyways.

Science Alert - 1 day 21 hours ago
A free episode idea for Black Mirror.

The Atlantic - 1 day 21 hours ago
Why are some people convinced that nefarious experiments are happening in the distant Alaskan wilderness?...

NPR - 2 days 33 min ago
In his new book "Apple: The First 50 Years," CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the story of how Apple became one of the most valuable companies in the world.