Artificial intelligence (AI) has long promised to revolutionize businesses and upgrade productivity. This year, generative AI tools like ChatGPT have significantly disrupted industries and work processes, according to a new McKinsey report.
And now we have definitive proof that AI can provide massive boosts to knowledge worker productivity and quality. A groundbreaking new study from Harvard Business School researchers partnering with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) provides robust ev
In 1894, Gallaudet University, the storied D.C. institution known for educating generations of deaf and hard of hearing students, invented the football huddle as a way to keep other teams from spying on their American Sign Language (ASL) discussions.
Last month, the university debuted another football innovation, testing a helmet developed with AT&T that lets coaches visually signal plays to athletes through a 5G connection. When head coach Chuck Goldstein needed to communicate a pl
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last month, Jews worldwide have reported a spike in antisemitic comments and attacks. Now, a new analysis by the U.K.-based advocacy group Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) shows that online activity mirrors what’s happening offline—including on YouTube and more than 20 other niche apps and services.
Using a bespoke speech classifier that was initially employed to analyze antisemitic content on X after Elon Musk took over th
Amazon is teaming up with a handful of leading think tanks to launch the Alliance for Satellite Broadband, a coalition aiming to broaden global satellite internet access.
The group was just announced this week, but it already has its first task: pushing regulators to update decades-old limits on signal interference between different orbits.
EPFD 101
Equivalent power flux-density (EPFD) calculates signal interference from lower orbit birds on their GEO counterpa
Entrepreneur Nyakio Grieco cofounded the beauty retailer Thirteen Lune in 2020. The platform carries 90% BIPOC-owned brands, including Pattern Beauty, Ami Colé, Bomba Curls, and Macabalm. In 2022, she also launched Relevant, a skincare line that puts inclusivity at the forefront. Last month, Relevant forayed into color cosmetics with the launch of lip and cheek tints and lip gloss.
On this week’s episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Grieco talks about being
Is he Samuel Bankman-Fried, a liar and a “celebrity chaser” who orchestrated a multibillion-dollar fraud? Or is he “Sam,” an “awkward high school math nerd” with sloppy clothes and messy hair who meant well and did his best as his crypto exchange collapsed?
In closing statements in Bankman-Fried’s federal fraud trial Wednesday, both the prosecution and the defense tried to convince the jury of their version of the defendant. He is cha
DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday, which it says was driven partly by efficiency and customer demand as summer ended.
The delivery giant posted revenue of $2.2 billion for its third quarter, which is up 27% from the same quarter a year ago. Analysts were expecting sales of $2.09 billion for the quarter.
“The business is firing on all cylinders both on the top line as well as the bottom li
We’re breaking the web and it’s unlikely we can fix it. Websites work, but their underlying data management doesn’t seem to work all that well. This didn’t happen suddenly.
Over time, the web has built on top of itself, and with the relatively recent addition of more automation-controlling functions, it seems to have gotten a lot worse. While some believe that the web will eventually eat itself from perpetual “AI learning from AI,” the news
Our solar system was a violent place 4.5 billion years ago. As planetesimals were forming out of a disk of gas and dust surrounding our sun, they began to collide. This process led to the formation of the larger protoplanets that would become our solar system.
During this chaotic period in our local neighborhood, Theia, a Mars-sized protoplanet, may have struck the Earth with such force that impact debris from this collision created the moon. Now, scientists think that pieces of The
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Assessing Biden’s executive order on AI
President Biden released on Monday a sprawling executive order designed to help the federal government ensure AI systems’ safety. AI companies have for mont