WhatsApp is finally rolling out one of its smallest but most awaited features — chat reactions. That’s right: now you can use emoji to react to a message in individual and group chats, without having to start a new reply. The messaging service is pretty late to the party, as other apps like Telegram, Signal, and Slack have had this feature for a while. Before using this feature, make sure... Read more ›
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The iPod was released a little over 20 years ago, forever changing the tech industry and helping redefine Apple products as luxury items — not just gadgets. The iPod is now dead. Apple today discontinued the last iPod model it still sold, the iPod Touch. And lest you think the company has another media player around the corner, its press release made it pretty clear the iPod is no more.... Read more ›
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It’s 2022, and there are plenty of NFT projects launching every day. But it’s hard to know which ones will remain popular past their drops. A lot of them launch pictures for proof (PFP) NFTs — think of them as image NFTs — with no utility attached to them. And there’s no clear plan for holders as to what value these might bring them, beyond trading. It might be easy... Read more ›
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IBM today launched its annual “Think” conference. The event begins with a two-day kickoff in Boston, then Big Blue’s taking the show on the road all summer long for a tour spanning 11 cities across the globe. In a virtual pre-conference press event attended by Neural, CEO Arvind Krishna discussed a number of the company’s plans for 2022 and beyond. The chief topics of conversation involved artificial intelligence, sustainability, and... Read more ›
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The resignation of Conservative MP Neil Parish has left many people wondering what could possibly lead someone to think it acceptable to watch pornography in their place of work. After being reported by female colleagues who witnessed his actions, Parish admitted that he had twice looked at pornographic content on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. As Parish found, using porn at work can be career-ending. It is... Read more ›
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I love reading on the Kindle. It’s convenient, the novels sync across my various devices, and, importantly, I can read at night without disturbing my partner. There is one deeply frustrating element of Amazon’s ereader, though: Popular Highlights. I’m certain you’re aware of them already, but just in case you aren’t, they’re sections of text in a book that are underlined. The idea is to crowdsource the most impactful and... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s accepted bid to purchase Twitter has triggered a lot of debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which plays an important role in determining the news and information many people – especially Americans – are exposed to. Musk has said he wants to make Twitter an arena for free speech. It’s not clear what that will mean, and his statements have fueled... Read more ›
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As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian physicist Alessandro Volta tapped into fundamental electrochemical principles when he invented the first battery in 1800. Essentially, the physical joining of two different materials, usually metals, generates a chemical reaction that results in the flow of electrons from one material to the... Read more ›
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IT’S HERE. If you were eagerly waiting for NFTs to arrive on Instagram, the moment is has arrived. You can share NFTs on your feed, in stories, and in messages. But for now, you have to be in the US and you have to be one of the “handful of creators and collectors” chosen by Instagram to use the feature. So much for decentralization, eh? Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, said... Read more ›
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Google’s annual developer extravaganza, Google I/O, is almost here. The conference is set to begin on May 11, starting with a keynote address at 10:00 AM PT (that’s 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, and 10:30 PM IST). As with last year’s conference, I/O 2022 will be free to ‘attend’ (virtually, that is), and everyone can stream the entirety of the event from the comfort of their pajamas. That said,... Read more ›
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In early March, a manipulated video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was circulated. In it, a digitally generated Zelenskyy told the Ukrainian national army to surrender. The video was circulated online but was quickly debunked as a deepfake — a hyper-realistic yet fake and manipulated video produced using artificial intelligence. While Russian disinformation seems to be having a limited impact, this alarming example illustrated the potential consequences of deepfakes. However,... Read more ›
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Cars are getting streamlined and minimalist. We’ve seen approval for vehicles without a steering wheel or pedals in the effort to make cars with increased autonomous capabilities. But now, automakers have designed a car without conventional brake discs — and it’s all part of a bigger effort to reduce carbon emissions. Over the weekend, French carmaker DS Automobiles, the luxury arm of Citroen, launched a prototype of the DS E-TENSE,... Read more ›
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In the last few weeks, we’ve heard multiple rumors about Elon Musk’s vision of generating more money through Twitter. But now, we have a robust idea of what Twitter’s numbers would look like under the Tesla CEO’s management. Over the weekend, The New York Times published a report about Musk’s pitch deck to investors — and the goals described in it are pretty ambitious. Rocket fueled user growth 931 million.... Read more ›
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I like imperfect things. I like my sweater with its holes at the elbows, that painting of mine that my cat walked over while it was drying, that source code I’m using for my doctorate that never seems to execute as I’d expected it to. I like it that way, though. Imperfection makes things more interesting. When you’re talking about business, however, there’s money to be made — potentially lots... Read more ›
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Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically respectable if you use the word multiverse. The Marvel multiverse puts different versions of our universe “out there”, somewhere. In these films, with the right blend of technology, magic, and imagination, travel between these universes is possible. For example (spoilers!), in Spider-Man: No Way Home, we discover there are other universes and other... Read more ›
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China has had the world’s fastest-growing economy since the 1980s. A key driver of this extraordinary growth has been the country’s pragmatic system of innovation, which balances government steering and market-oriented entrepreneurs. Right now, this system is undergoing changes that may have profound implications for the global economic and political order. The Chinese government is pushing for better research and development, “smart manufacturing” facilities, and a more sophisticated digital economy.... Read more ›
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As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite particles?”, I realize that the reason the question is posed so often is down to how we have... Read more ›
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The big existential fear on everybody’s mind used to be losing our jobs to AI. That all changed when the pandemic hit and millions were faced with job loss that had nothing to do with automation. For many, the best solution to their COVID-related employment woes was to turn to the freelance or “gig-based” economy. This led to a huge uptick in value for companies specializing in connecting clients with... Read more ›
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Bored Apes have become symbolic of the NFT craze. Horrendously ugly and ludicrously pricey, their value derives from artificial scarcity. It would therefore be a great shame if someone offered infinite free versions of the collectibles — which is exactly what Yannick Kilcher has done. The machine learning expert has built an app that generates as many Bored Apes as your heart desires. The system is powered by generative adversarial... Read more ›
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I don’t own a TV (streaming all the way), but I’m always interested in car commercials to see what tricks advertisers are deploying in their efforts to make us want to shell out a large portion of our income on a new car. So when I saw that Ford released a new advertisement yesterday – with a decent amount of shade thrown at a competitor whose name starts with a... Read more ›
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