I always had a complicated relationship with technology. I would like it, then realize I like it too much, and then try to disentangle from it. I went through several cycles of this. As a young girl in the 1970s, I spent far too much time playing video games. Then in the 1990s, I spent every spare minute during one college semester playing a dungeon treasure hunt computer game. I stopped only after I convinced a friend to place a password on the game to prevent my access. Then came email. I s
Recent years have seen both impressive advances in computational technologies and neuroscience and increasing prevalence of mental disorders. These forces sparked the launch of brain science initiatives worldwide. In the past decade, a “brain race” between Europe, the U.S., Israel, Japan, and China has taken off with the goal of understanding human brain function.
One of the earliest brain initiatives was the 10-year, 1 billion-euro (
Back in November 2021, Microsoft announced its most ambitious addition to the Office suite in years, though it’s taken until now to publicly launch the thing.
The new arrival is called Microsoft Loop, and it’s an answer to all-in-one document editors such as Notion and Coda, which have taken off as Office alternatives in recent years. Just like those products, Loop lets users create free-flowing, interlinked documents without all the stuffy conventions of Word. It serv
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Try Mem if you’re looking for a modern alternative to Evernote for organizing your notes. It’s promising, though not without flaws.
- Best features: Add notes easily and flexibly + AI-enhanced search.
- Limitations: Cluttered design and some
Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show his arrest appeared online. These images looked like news photos, but they were fake. They were created by a generative artificial intelligence system.
Generative AI, in the form of image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla, and LLaMA, has explod
In January 2019, TripAdvisor level 5 reviewer Megan Howdy was mad. The Panera in Olympia, Washington, that she visited on her lunch break was not up to snuff.
“I’d give this review less stars if it wasn’t for the fact that I like Panera,” Howdy wrote. “I went in after work two weeks ago and was shocked to hear that they were out of my favorite—tuna! Starving, I went with a plan B but was so bummed to not get what I wanted. I went in today fo
Esther Wojcicki isn’t scared of ChatGPT. As a former teacher and the founder of one of the largest high school journalism programs in the country, she knows a thing or two about teaching the art of the written word, and instead of worrying that AI is going to turn students into cheaters, she thinks it can turn them into engaged writers.
Wojcicki spent nearly 40 years teaching journalism and English at Palo Alto High School (aka Paly), in Palo Alto, California. She also raised
If Gordon Moore had only cofounded Intel, he’d be remembered as one of the tech industry’s giants. But Moore, who died at his home in Hawaii on Friday at the age of 94, also devised Moore’s Law—the 1965 prediction that the number of components that could fit on an integrated circuit would double every year, which he revised to every two years in 1975. Originally made in an article for Electronics magazine, the observation became a talisman for the entire tech indus
During Thursday’s four-hour-long grilling of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, lawmakers covered a lot of ground in terms of national security and dangerous content concerns around the wildly popular social app. But one question was not explored.
Where are the brands in all of this?
When software services firm Capterra recently surveyed more than 300 U.S. marketers, 60% of them agreed that concerns over TikTok’s data priv
Two weeks ago, on what seemed like a typical Wednesday, Brex cofounder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras discovered something curious: a “weird” amount of inflows to deposits, as Brex’s enterprise customers moved cash onto the platform.
Brex, a six-year-old startup worth $12.3 billion, offers spend management solutions for businesses, including cash accounts that can be used to pay bills and fund payroll. Though Brex now serves large companies, it got its start servi