Category: Technology

In 2022, the winter solstice for the northern hemisphere happens on December 21. While not as dramatic as 2020’s conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the longest night of the year is a significant turning point. Astronomical winter begins, and the days gradually get longer again. Curious why this happens? WIRED spoke with Tansu Daylan, a former Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite […]

As generative AI has matured, the utility of this technology for businesses has yet to be determined. Analysts and industry watchers agree early products, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or DALL·E 2, indicate a preview of what’s to come. Large language models have the potential to support, augment or entirely replace job functions, which could overhaul […]

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As businesses brace for next year and feel the weight of economic slowdown, some leaders increased their focus on employee productivity levels – and they are not happy with the data.  Companies have reported lower than normal […]

In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an example of a “large language model” that can engage in surprisingly fluent text-based conversations. When the engineer asked, “When do you first think you got a […]

Do you remember the alluring 8-bit music, flashing screens, and excitement of the arcades? Maybe you spent happy hours in front of an early home computer or game console. Or perhaps you just want a taste of what early video games were like. Everyone loves new retro-looking games, but if you really want to scratch […]

I woke up Friday morning to the message I’d been expecting: “Your account, @Justin_Ling has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules.” Below was the offending tweet: a link to one of the few websites that provide real-time private jet flight data that “chief twit” Elon Musk, I wrote, “hasn’t bullied into suppressing his flight data.” […]

A year after COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in November 2021, the number of FTSE 100 companies vowing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 grew by 37 percent to 82 percent. Among the pledgers were some of the world’s biggest companies: Amazon, Apple, Ford, IBM, JP Morgan, Mars, and many […]

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Microsoft researchers found a vulnerability in macOS that allows threat actors to bypass security features in Apple’s Gatekeeper, a tool designed to make sure only trusted applications can run on Mac devices, according to a […]

Tyler Hamilton has optimized his every waking minute. Between Black Friday and Christmas, five nights a week, he pulls himself out of bed, brushes his teeth, and rushes to his car just before sunset. On his drive to the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, he stops at Wendy’s to buy two bourbon bacon burgers, […]

Autumn is my favorite time in the South. There’s a day, usually in late October, when the humidity finally breaks, the air stirs, and you can feel it in your bones: Summer is over. If you’re in the Midwest, that might be a shame because snow is coming, while those of you in California might […]