Despite its incessant whining, our technology sector has had it easy under Joe Biden and will have it even easier under Donald Trump. The president-elect is backed by a swath of Silicon Valley billionaires, likely to enjoy full control of Congress, and eager to usher in a wave of deregulation tha
Since 2017, Mozilla’s Common Voice project has collected more than 30,000 hours of recordings of people from around the world speaking their languages.
The project’s goal is to provide a free, publicly available dataset that anyone can use for training voice recognition AI software and other projects, while ensuring that all the material is provided with the informed consent of the people being recorded. Common Voice now
Apple’s latest suite of updates—iOS 18 and the iPhone 16 series released in September, followed by the rollout of Apple Intelligence in October—represents a leap forward in privacy, productivity, and seamless user experience.
With new tools emphasizing customization, enhanced security, and dynamic AI capabilities, Apple is creating a more personal, intuitive interact
How long do you think you could last in total seclusion? YouTube creator Norme is putting that question to the test, now 500-plus hours into his attempt to livestream in “solitary confinement” for a whole month.
Why? For views, of course.
Norme, who has more than a million subscribers, is no stranger to streaming challenges. Some of his achievements, according to his YouTube bio, include not blinking for 2 hours and 6 minutes, and eating a cactus. The Australian Yo
Election Day has come and gone, and once again, millions of people are sifting through the data and trying to make sense of it all.
One big question that remains unanswered: How accurate were the polls this time, and how well could they predict the outcome of the election compared to the prediction markets?
Polling errors in 2024
There’s almost always a polling error in one direction or another. In 2012, f
“American women, looks like it’s time to get influenced by Korea’s 4B movement,” read a post on X just hours after it became clear Donald Trump had won the election and would become the 47th president of the United States.
american women, looks like it’s t
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How the Trump administration will, or won’t, oversee AI
A second Trump administration will almost certainly reduce the government’
Along with the new M4 MacBook Pro series Apple is releasing this week (here is Fast Company’s review of Apple’s latest laptop), the company is also debuting a new Mac mini. The Mac mini is arguably the more radical of the two: Apple’s diminutive computer has now received its first major design overhaul in 13 years.
Yet the new mini has more to offer
It’s no surprise that students are pushing back on cellphone bans in classrooms. But school administrators in one South Florida county working to pull students’ eyes away from their screens are facing some
Apple gave me an advanced look at its newest flagship laptop, the 16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro, which goes on sale to the public tomorrow. I was interested in giving it a test run, of course, but aside from expecting speed increases, thanks to the M4 Pro chip, I honestly wasn’t expecting to be too wowed. MacBook Pros are usually always the best laptop on the market anyway—and this one, on the surface, didn’t seem much more than a spec update over