Tesla is launching sales in Saudi Arabia, where the obstacles do not (yet) include Musk protests 

Tesla starts selling cars in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a country where on a 900-kilometre (559 mile) stretch of its main east-west highway linking the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca there isn’t a single charging station.

Deepfake porn is a labor issue

Last month, First Lady Melania Trump used her first public remarks of President Trump’s second term to 

Sparq wants drivers to be their own AI-powered mechanics

Cars are about to get a lot more expensive. This startup wants to make your services cheaper. 

Sparq Diagnostics, cofounded by Codrin Cobzaru and Daniel Nieh, has developed a plug-in scanner designed for everyday drivers. In a market full of specialized tech and pricey mechanics, Sparq aims to give car owners affordable insights into their vehicle’s health. S

DOGE is ditching this analog file storage system. That could spell bad news for data integrity

As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to reshape the U.S. government’s digital infrastructure—scrapping websites, eliminating jobs, and dissolving entire departments—archivists have been racing to preserve a vanishing record of public history.

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From training dogs to intelligent machines: Here’s how reinforcement learning is teaching AI

Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living beings alike.

In a remarkably prescient

Why Amazon is doubling down on movie theaters

Amazon is betting big on movie theaters—even if it isn’t counting on mega profits.

The Silicon Valley giant told The New York Times last week that it is planning to release about 14 movies annually in theaters across the United States, an untraditional move for a company that has for years focused on streaming. Instead of simply dropping films directly onto Prime Video, its

Meet the Space Resistance Companies

If you’re at all unsettled by the amount of power that Elon Musk wields on Earth, don’t look up. There are now essentially three big players controlling what goes into space and who gets access to increasingly valuable space-based communications and surveillance services: Russia, China, and Elon Musk.

In 2024, Musk’s rocket company SpaceX accounted for more than half of all orbital launch attempts globally—more than all countries outside the U.S. combined—with 134 successful launches of its

How ChatGPT is helping bend websites to my will

I’m a writer, not a programmer, so until recently a lot of the hype around ChatGPT’s abitilies as a coding tool went over my head.

But then I realized generative AI’s programming powers can be helpful for more than just coders. It can also help anyone else dabble in code to get things done.

In my case, that means creating new browser bookmarklets. These are

Meta is bringing stricter parental controls to Facebook and Messenger

Meta is bringing its Teen Accounts, which have stricter parental controls, to its Facebook and Messenger platforms on Tuesday, expanding its teen service from just Instagram.

The social media giant rolled out Teen Accounts last year on Instagram that have built-in restrictions on who can contact teens, the content they see, and limits on their time on Instagram. 


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