The biggest news in crypto last week was “The Merge,” the name for Ethereum’s transition from a proof-of-work validation process, where people mine crypto using computers, to a proof-of-stake validation process, where crypto owners use their current ETH coins as collateral for validating new coi
Instacart on Monday announced Connected Stores, a suite of new and existing in-store tech for retailers who want to make their grocery stores smart.
The features, which U.S. and Canadian retailers can implement à la carte, are based on the idea of making the brick-and-mortar shopping experience more seamless, quick, and personalized. They include a new version of AI-powered Caper Carts, the ability to sync Instacart shopping lists to the smart carts, electronic shelf tabs (called
Where writing is concerned, the best of today’s AIs can be very, very good. But when they’re bad, they’re horrid.
They’re excellent mimics. A few years ago, a text generator called GPT-2 analyzed a sample of writing by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, then produced an imitation that hardly anyone could distinguish from the real thing. A more recent AI called Copilot, which has been customized for programming uses, is speeding up the work of practiced code
So you’re thinking of dumping cable? Don’t let me talk you out of it.
You should absolutely do it. I did it five years ago and I’ve never looked back. It’s the best thing since working from home.
That being said, without a teensy bit of planning, you’ll probably experience a few bumps in the road along the way. Here are some things I’ve learned.
The two greatest things about cord cutting
You might save money. You’l
More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has
Whether we like it or not, there are a very small handful of tech companies that dominate the tech industry as a whole. The FAANG companies, also known as MAMAA, Big Tech, or the Big Five, originally started as a stock market term to describe the newest and hottest heavy hitters in the industry—the most prominent technology companies in the country—and has remained a popular term to de
Journalist Sarah Kendzior burst onto the scene in 2016 after predicting Trump would win the presidency. Two years after that election, her subsequent essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, detailed a despairing industrial Midwest where the populist candidate found many of his votes. Now, after a couple of bestsellers and a hit
Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) came into its own alongside the likes of Zoom cocktail hours, virtual museum tours, and same-day
People appear to be more willing to lie for personal gain when they use a laptop versus a smartphone, our new peer-reviewed research shows. Given that the two devices have nearly identical technical capabilities—they’re both boxes with electronic brains—this surprised us and highlights the psychological impact of technology.
Our first in a planned series of studi
Imagine purchasing “up to” a gallon of milk for US$4.50, or paying for “up to” a full tank of gas. Most people would view such transactions as absurd. And yet, in the realm of broadband service, the use of “up to” speeds has become standard business practice.
Unlike other advertisements for goods and services—for example, what a ca