TikTok is planning to ban teen users in Europe from using beauty filters that alter their facial features. In the coming weeks, minors will be blocked from making their eyes bigger, plumping their lips, and smoothing or changing their skin tone with filters—all part of an effort to mitigate the impact on teens’ mental health.
Apple defies gravity, and AI is divine. That’s how Guy Kawasaki, who worked closely with Steve Jobs—and is now chief evangelist at Canva and host of the podcast Remarkable People—describes the state of tech today. Guy muses about Tim Cook’s limitations, what he means when he says, “AI is God,” and explains his definition of what makes a person remarkable.
In a way, Tim Berners-Lee’s current project is more ambitious than the one that changed history. When he conceived the World Wide Web in 1989, it didn’t compete with any other deeply-entrenched system for sharing information across the internet, which was still limited to government and academic users at the time. Indeed, without the web, the internet might never have had mass appeal in
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?
I’ve been in the data privacy field for over 15 years, but nothing could prepare me for the complications and complexities that AI has created for companies since it hit the mainstream in 2022.
Each week a new company is in the spotlight—from the backlash against Meta for using Facebook and Instagram users’ data for AI training, Microsoft’
I’m in my mid-forties. Things are going gray in places and my hips hurt for no reason. And back in my day, Black Friday was one day: the Friday after Thanksgiving.
You went to Best Buy (the actual store), stood outside in the cold, cold night, and tried not to get stampeded when they opened the doors at 5 a.m. Then you went to Circuit City and CompUSA afterward to see what was left.
Only one of those stores is still standing, and Black Friday now takes up multipl
Major supply-chain software provider Blue Yonder is working to restore its systems after a ransomware attack hit the Panasonic-owned firm last week. Blue Yonder, which counts Starbucks, major U.K. grocers, and other large retailers among its customers, said it wasn’t sure when it could restore services.
The attack didn’t hit systems run on its public cloud-based platforms. It’s unclear how many of its more than 3,000 customers have been impacted. No group has yet
Are you really a student if you’ve not done a late night study session soundtracked to an unending lo-fi beats playlist on YouTube?
According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube have tripled since 2020. One of the most popular channels “Lo-fi Girl” attracts tens of thousands of viewers daily with their stream “ ">lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study to.” However, fans of the genre may be disappointed t
Influencers today look a lot more like Hollywood executives than ragtag social media users. And they’re buying up the real estate to prove it.
A slew of creators have been buying plots of studio land to film and edit their content. That marks a shift from the influencers of yesteryear, many of whom purchased or rented mansions to act as their internet-fueled fraternity houses. Often, those mansions housed 10 or so different influencers, acting as a pseudo-collective for the viral e
For those who work the earth, AI can be an invaluable tool for making that work more efficient, sustainable and productive. AI helps farmers use the same tools they have been using for centuries, but with improved efficiency and focus. Here are 10 tips for farmers looking to use the new wave of AI-assisted farming.
LET ROBOTS DO THE WEEDING
It may look like a Mars rover, but the BoniRob system is much more down