Every video game has a lifespan. Some, like Pac-Man, are played for decades. Some support a small, but dedicated, player base for a few years before quietly disappearing. Concord, an online multiplayer video game recently released by Sony, lasted less than two weeks before its publisher decided enough was enough.
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Radio inspired will.i.am’s career. Now, the musician and entrepreneur is eager to innovate on the dying medium with Radio.fyi, a new interactive AI model. Will shares his philosophy about AI development, the dawn of “intelligent media,” and why he believes Radio.fyi will likely be a big part of radio’s future.
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Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is.
Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers who speak 200 different languages and 75 dialects.
So an Alorica representative who
When he first emerged on social media, the user known as Harlan claimed to be a New Yorker and an Army veteran who supported Donald Trump for president. Harlan said he was 29, and his profile picture showed a smiling, handsome young man.
A few months later, Harlan underwent a transformation. Now, he claimed to be 31 and from Florida
Tesla plans to produce a six-seat variant of its Model Y car in China from late 2025, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the U.S. automaker strives to increase the appeal of its best-selling yet aging electric vehicle (EV).
Sitting in the cab of the largest vehicle rolling down the interstate south of Dallas, I keep looking out at the smallest things: not just other cars, but the remnants of tires and other bits of road debris.
A different set of eyes is spotting these objects before I do. But they don’t belong to the driver sitting behind the wheel of the Peterbilt that’
Esteemed cookbook author Alison Roman is finally getting a TV show—but not on the Food Network.
Instead, Roman is launching her show on Tastemade, an internet TV company that distributes its streaming channels via smart TVs and streaming dongles. The partnership demonstrates both how much the television industry has changed, and how challenging it is for traditional TV networks to keep up with these changes.
A few years ago,
Jonathan, who lives in Washington D.C., was laid off in January this year. While searching for jobs on LinkedIn, he received a message offering him $40 per hour to train AI systems, with the possibility of full-time work. Jonathan—who, like everyone in this article, asked to go by a pseudonym or first name to speak openly about their experiences—saw the job as a nice side hustle while figuring out his next career move.
The application process, with a company called Outlier, was qui
It’s 2024, for cryin’ out loud. We’ve got robots that vacuum for us and AI that—well, kinda-sorta does some other stuff almost adequately, some of the time.
Amid all that, how is it possible that effectively organizing your tasks still feels like an insurmountable task of its own?
As someone who borders on being unhealthily obsessed with organization, I’ve tried practically every app, system, and philosophy out there for keeping tabs on my endless ocean of obligations. And wh