There’s a famous saying: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The quote—taken from a New Yorker cartoon published in, if you can believe it, 1993—made a simple point about the anonymity provided by the internet: Shielded by a monitor, you could be anyone.
I had assumed this quote would remain eternally relevant. Not so. In 2024, a person might
Travel search company Skiplagged boasts that it can help you “find flights the airlines don’t want you to see,” using “loopholes in airfare pricing to save you money.”
That proposition hasn’t always sat well with the airlines. In fact, American Airlines recently won a $
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of startup activity addressing issues of the “female” sort. For the first time in history, women at a mass scale have the power to create businesses to solve their problems. If you’ve noticed more attention being given to menopause, menstrual cycles, and everything in between, it is a direct result of more companies paying attention to the numerous unaddressed issues affecting the lives and health within the overlooked femtech market.
“Is Chili’s triple dipper worth it?” Irene Kim asks in a TikTok with nearly 450,000 views. She zooms in to show her selection of Honey Chipotle Chicken Crispers, Big Mouth Bites, and Nashville Hot Mozz, accompanied with three sides of ranch. Taking a bite of the mozzarella stick, she says “now that’s what I call a cheese pull,” stretching the stick until it is almost out of shot. “For $16, worth it.”
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A dangerous trend inspired by the popular mobile game Subway Surfers sees young kids and teens catching rides on top of moving trains—sometimes with fatal consequences.
On October 23, 13-year-old Adolfo Sanabria Sorzano died after attempting the subway surfing challenge in Queens, New York. Days later, 13-year-old Krystel Romero died after falling off a 7 train while also partaking in the trend. Romero’s 12-year-old fri
A semiconductor research facility in upstate New York was selected as one of three national technology centers and will receive up to $825 million in funding as part of a broader
OpenAI is launching internet search functionality within its ChatGPT AI chatbot. For paid subscribers, the chatbot will now be able to integrate up-to-date web information into its answers.
The search function assembles a custom package of information in response to a search. For instance, the search “what’s the latest stock price and news for Company X” yields a quick summary, then a neat stock price chart, followed by a list of recent news items about Company X—each with a
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OpenAI bursts into a growing AI Search race
OpenAI on Thursday launched its AI search product to ChatGPT Pro subscription use
If Google is in the middle of reinventing itself around AI, you wouldn’t know it from the latest Google Maps updates.
Yes, there are the obligatory new Gemini AI integrations in the form of review summaries and more granular search queries, and those are what dominate Google’s press release about the news. But for the most part, the update is about meat-and-potatoes improvements to the core mapping and navigation experience, most of which don’t involve generative AI.
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X’s crowdsourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report published Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.
The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed the Community Notes feature and found that accurate notes correcting false and misleading claims about the U.S. elections were not displayed on 209 out of a sample of 283 p