I’ve been searching for the words to describe my feelings towards the current state of adtech. Terms like “stale,” “stagnant,” and “boring” are among the pejoratives that come to mind. But, if I had to be even more descriptive, I’d have to say that adtech is like a grocery store—and not in a good way.
Just lik
As 3D-printed gun violence abounds, some lawmakers are looking to cut the problem at the root.
The New York state senate is currently evaluating a bill that would dramatically change the 3D printing market. Merchants looking to sell the printers, or at least those that are able to produce a firearm, would be required to treat customers as if they were purchasing a firearm. That means performing background checks and obtaining criminal histories.
The threat of
Instagram Reels has added a new feature that shows you a feed of videos that your friends have liked. The bad news: It works both ways, meaning your friends can now see every video you’ve liked.
“We want Instagram to not only be a place where you consume entertaining content, but one where you connect over that content with friends,” Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, wrote in his announcement of the fea
Two security researchers discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s Starlink-connected vehicles last year that gave them “unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts” across the U.S., Canada, and Japan, according to a Wired report.
The researchers, Sam Curry and Shubham Shah, alerted the Japanese automaker to the flaws in November and they were
OpenAI announced on Thursday a research preview of Operator, an AI agent that can browse the web and perform tasks for the user. Operator is powered by the Computer-Using Agent (CUA), an AI model that merges GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with reasoning capability.
OpenAI trained CUA to let Operator complete digital tasks by interacting with the buttons, menus, and text fields within the graphical user interfaces of t
In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide.
“I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a second,” Mistre said, describing the day in September 2021 that marked the start of her fight against
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Pinterest’s CEO wants teens to use their app, but not during school hours.
Bill Ready has joined the growing chorus of parents, educators, and policymakers advocating for “phone-free schools.” A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 72% of high school and 33% of middle school teachers report cellphone dist
In 2011, when Michigan was looking for ways to cut spending on its unemployment program after it had been drained by the Great Recession, the state turned to a new idea: building—and eventually deploying—an automated computer system to root out benefit fraud.
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?