Last year, Dorsey founder Megan Strachan got herself a new engagement ring. The one she had worn for the past 10 years felt a bit old, and she wanted to give herself options to go with different outfits. Strachan, whose company sells jewelry made from lab-grown stones, says she was able to upgrade now because of the ubiquity and price point of large lab-grown stones. I wear a ring because of what it signifies, but I don’t wear the same ring every day; I change it,” she
With Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you’re probably to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of “spatial computing.”
It’s an esoteric mode of technology that Apple executives and their marketing gurus are trying to thrust into the mainstream while avoiding other more widely used terms such as “augmented reality” and “virtual real
After a U.S. senator grilled the Singaporean CEO of TikTok about his nationality and suggested he was affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, Singaporeans are complaining about ignorant — or even racist — views of their country.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew and executives of other technology firms such as Meta, X, and Snap testified Wednesday before U.S. lawmakers on online harm to children from social media.
During the hearing, Chew was repeatedly questioned ab
Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of at least 30 people, including journalists, lawyers, human rights, and political activists, the digital rights group Access Now said Thursday.
The hacking with spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group occurred from 2019 until last September, Access Now said in its report. It did not accuse Jordan’s government of the hacking.
One of the targets was Human Rights Watch’s deputy director fo
For years, American popular culture has churned out ultra-dramatic scenarios about the rise of artificial intelligence. In James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi flick The Terminator, AI system Skynet becomes sentient and launches a nuclear war against humans, directing cyborgs to wipe out humankind.
But here in the real world, AI is coming for a decidedly more tedious part of modern life: tax filing. And America’s young adults are leading the charge in embracing this change.
Here’s a tale of two headlines: “Wegovy leads to weight loss. Can it treat depression, too?” Next up: “Wegovy, other weight-loss drugs scrutinized over reports of suicidal thoughts.”
So which one is it? Do these blockbuster medicines for diabetes and weight loss come with serious mental health risks, or could they actually be effective treatments for depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurological conditions? It
It all started—and this will come as no surprise to anyone who knows a teenage boy—with sneakers. Specifically, the Nike Kobe 7 Easter shoe.
Like much of Gen Z, Steven Schwartz, a restless 13-year-old living outside of Chicago, and Cameron Zoub (ditto), met online, specifically in a Facebook group. Their first messages to each other were about those sneakers. Specifically, developing bots that could snap up and then resell them. They became business partners before the
Life is unfair. Most parents inform their children as much at an early age, possibly to explain why another child has a cooler toy. What many of those parents understandably don’t mention to their kids, however, is that the unfairness of life is unfairly distributed.
Income inequality, for instance, is a major factor in life’s unfairness, and in America it’s only gotten worse as of late. According to a CNN report, the top 10% of wage earners saw their incomes ri
This week the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration convened an unusually well-attended hearing with a panel of government technology leaders from an alphabet soup of congressional agencies, including the Library of Congress (LOC), Government Publishing Office (GPO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the House Chief Administrative Office (CAO). The purpose of this gathering of the acronyms: to discuss how AI could make Congress govern more effectively.
Next month, in EU member states, third-party app stores will appear on the iPhone for the first time in the device’s history. The change was prompted by the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is designed to ensure that there’s more competition in the tech industry by forcing giants such as Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon to open up some of their platforms so that smaller companies can better compete. In Apple’s case, the DMA mandates