Every semester, I ask my students to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Classification and think of which jobs can be automated using AI. This serves to inspire them to come up with their own startup venures. Quite often, customer service representatives and data-entry keyers come up in the list.
Indeed, generative AI has plenty of potential to automate many aspects of customer service. And other areas of AI, such as computer vision combined with natural langua
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Arc is the Web browser I use daily. It’s cleaner than Chrome and more elegantly designed. It’s easy to organize Arc tabs by project and context. When I first wrote about Arc, you had to get on a waiting list to use it. Now, it’s free for anyone to use on Mac and iOS, with a Windows version expected thi
Have you ever bitten into a nut or a piece of chocolate, expecting a smooth, rich taste, only to encounter an unexpected and unpleasant chalky or sour flavor? That taste is rancidity in action, and it affects pretty much every product in your pantry. However, these days artificial intelligence can help scientists tackle this issue more precisely and efficiently.
We’re a group of chemists who study ways to extend the life of food products, including those that go rancid. We re
Raad Mobrem found a mentor the old-fashioned way: A chance encounter with Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea on the street led to a conversation about entrepreneurship and, ultimately, a long-lasting relationship that extended through Mobrem’s founding the inventory-management app, Lettuce, and eventually selling it to the financial software giant Intuit for $30 million. “We went and sat down and in, like, 15 to 30 minutes, I learned more about entrepreneurship than I had ever
Director Nathaniel Kahn probed the world of art sales in 2018’s The Price of Everything and the search for extraterrestrial life in 2021’s Emmy-winning Hunt for Planet B. His latest film, however, goes where no man has gone before: a million miles from Earth.
Deep Sky, a 40-minute Imax original documentary about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that opened yesterday, showcases the mind-blowing images captured by the $10-billion telescope, which started b
At the beginning, there was just one demo tape.
Thirty years ago, Santa Cruz-based indie rock band The Ugly Mugs was looking to grow its fan base. “We were trying to publish a tape, get it out there into people’s hands so they could hear it,” recalls former band member Jeff Patterson, who had moved to the California beach town to study computer science. Rob Lord, a fellow student and like-minded music geek, told Patterson about cutting-edge music compression tec
The NHL scores the Brand Miss of the Week—for its ongoing missteps with the LGTBQ community.
This is not a new issue but one that isn’t going away, and it continues this week to be a big miss for the National Hockey League. Just before the 2023-24 season started last week, the league sent a memo to its teams saying that use of rainbow-colored Pride Tape was now banned from games, warm-ups, and even team practices.
The move comes after a long year for the NHL
By developing a more equitable creative economy in which artists of color are celebrated, nurtured, and paid competitively for their work, GANGGANG, Indianapolis’s first cultural startup, is creating positive change that extends beyond the art world.
Through advocacy and programming, GANGGANG husband-and-wife founders Malina Simone Bacon and Alan Bacon have managed to change the game for Black artists in just three years, sparking meaningful discussions about culture and
Video-game-influencer company FaZe Holdings is being acquired by Texas-based esports company GameSquare Holdings, the companies said on Friday.
The all-stock deal will give FaZe investors roughly 0.14 GameSquare shares per every FaZe share, making the acquisition worth around $17 million, Bloomberg reports. As part of the deal, GameSquare’s largest investors, which include the family of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, have agreed to buy $10 million in stock in a private pla
New research finds that children are able to easily access graphic content, including images of corpses, when searching for the Israel-Hamas war on social media platforms—and in turn are served more explicit content by the algorithms.
The results were published earlier this week by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which created profiles for 13-year-old kids on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. The researchers found over 300 posts or videos “portra