Whether weather is always on your radar or merely a passing front of occasional interest, having an on-demand eye on the world around you is one of the most powerful slices of sorcery you can set your sights on today.
And this week, I want to introduce you to a worthwhile new weather app I recently encountered that’s decidedly different from the others. It isn’t meant to replace whatever weather app you’re already using, whether that’s the one that came preinstalled on you
The biggest technology game changers don’t always grab the biggest headlines. Two emerging AI developments may not go viral on TikTok or YouTube, but they represent an inflection point that could radically accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s AI that can function and learn like us.
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The U.S. House of Representatives’ Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Catherine Szpindor, informed congressional staffers this week that WhatsApp is now banned from government phones. The move came after the CAO’s Office of Cybersecurity deemed the Meta-owned app to be “high-risk to users”—a claim that WhatsApp quickly rebutted.
But the CAO is correct. While WhatsApp is one of the more secure messaging apps out there, it does have some pri
Justice for Tiny Chef.
A now-viral clip of the stop-motion animated star of The Tiny Chef Show getting laid off directly by the execs at “Mickelflodeon” has tugged at the heartstrings of the internet.
In a ">YouTube short posted earlier this week, now with 365,000 views, the tiny green chef (Cheffy, as he’s known to friends) is minding his business, dusting his room, when he gets a call deliverin
Dating app Bumble continues to lose its footing. After subpar earnings, sluggish user growth, and internal stagnation, the company has laid off 30% of its staff. Meanwhile, its dating app competitor Grindr is soaring.
Among dating apps, Match Group’s properties—mostly Hinge
Apple has revamped its app store policies in the European Union with hopes of fending off escalating fines under the 27-nation bloc’s
“An opportunity to choose chance.”
That’s what social platform startup 222 claims to offer its members. It isn’t a dating app—there’s no swiping, and, more notably, there’s no actual choosing of who you might be meeting.
Instead, an AI-driven algorithm does it for you.
“We wanted people to be out and meeting each other. It was [based] on this whole idea of the death of third places, and that people aren’t just running into each o
Five years ago, I bought an e-bike. At the time, the motor-equipped two-wheelers were burdened with an iffy reputation. Was it way easier to get up a hill on one than on a bike without a battery? Absolutely. Did that mean people who rode them were
If a Gen Alpha tween said, “Let him cook,” would you know what that meant? No? AI doesn’t either.
A research paper written by soon-to-be ninth grader Manisha Mehta was presented this week at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Athens. The paper details how four leading AI models—GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama 3—all struggled to fully understand slang from Gen Alpha, defined as t
Not all emojis are created equal.
The sparkle emoji or red heart emoji are staples of text conversations and social media captions. But how often are you using the baggage claim icon or the non-potable water symbol?
Recently, a new trend has emerged: mainstream emojis are being passed over in favor of more creative alternatives. The broken heart emoji? Tired. Predictable. Th