DoNotPay will now call customer service hotlines for you

If you dread the thought of calling to change an airline ticket or negotiate your internet bill, a new artificial intelligence tool may provide a solution.

DoNotPay, which offers an assortment of consumer-friendly services like tracking subscriptions, generating burner phone numbers, and searching for unclaimed property, now features a bot that will call customer service numbers for users, navigate through p

How Wikipedia is staying relevant in the AI era

Despite the rise of such AI models as ChatGPT and Google Gemini, “old-school” Wikipedia remains one of the most visited sites around the world—with 15 billion visitors every month. Maryana Iskander, CEO of Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, offers how the platform is holding ground against AI competitors, and navigating one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: Where can we find information that we can trust in 2024? 

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‘We work at Salesforce, of course we’re going to enjoy the free snacks’: Employees are becoming influencers for their own companies

Even your FYP (For You Page) isn’t safe from the corporate grind. The influencer-industrial complex is so pervasive, employees are now becoming influencers for their own companies. From “outfit of the day” to “day in the life” videos, employees across industries are stepping into the spotlight to be the face of their employer’s social media accounts. 

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Spotify is adding new markets to its music video test

Spotify is expanding its beta test of adding music videos to the platform by several dozen regions, though it still is unavailable in the U.S.

Spotify introduced music videos to its platform earlier this year for a number of Premium subscribers as “another way to connect with the songs and artists they love,” the company said. Spotify said that users who discover a song and then watch the accompanying video on Spotify are 34% more likely on average to listen to the song

Jubilee Media wants to build political empathy through YouTube debates 

Jubilee founder Jason Y. Lee wants to solve the problem of media echo chambers.

Lee’s idea is relatively simple: Present professionally filmed, two-sided debates on YouTube, and give the exchanges scintillating titles like “Can 1 Woke Teen Survive 20 Trump Supporters?” His bet is that, once they get under the hood of that face-off (which can easily run over an hour), viewers will leave with a better understanding of the other side. 

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NASA launches Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s ocean moon. Here’s why

A ">NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupi

‘She was trying to warn us’: Why an old conspiracy theory about Beyoncé and Sia is resurfacing online

Following the highly publicized arrest and indictment of rapper Diddy, chronically online internet sleuths and tinfoil hat–wearing conspiracy theorists have been doing what they do best: spreading insane rumors online. 

An old conspiracy theory involving Beyoncé and Sia has been given a new lease of life due to the Diddy charges. A fake photoshopped tweet, edited to seem like it was shared from Sia’s official X account in 2020, read: “Baby, everything your own nice cat

AI can predict extreme weather, but here’s where the forecasts fall short

When floods ripped through parts of Europe in September, the scale of the destruction took people by surprise. The intense rains should not have, because those had b

$750 million will go to this North Carolina chip company, thanks to the Biden administration 

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans Tuesday to provide up to $750 million in direct funding to Wolfspeed, with the money supporting its new silicon carbide factory in North Carolina that makes the wafers used in advanced computer chips and its factory in Mar

The WordPress drama could have major implications for the internet

The WordPress situation has soured in the past several weeks, as a dispute spirals out of control between founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, a platform that many users deploy in order to host their WordPress sites.

In late September, Mullenweg shut off access to WP Engine, alleging the company had extracted value from WordPress (which was created as an open source project) t


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