4 essential reads about the (sometimes scary) future of AI

When it comes to artificial intelligence, there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Is it going to take over the world? If a number of tech experts and futurists are to be believed, it certainly could—but not in the way you might expect.

No, there probably won’t be gun-toting, red-eyed robots stalking the streets at night. But artificial intelligence is already changing our politics, our economies, and even how we use everyday technologies. To f

This great little app gives you a canvas for resizable sticky notes

Manifest is a neat online notepad that lets you pin plain-text notes onto a virtual canvas. Just click and drag to create a note of any size, then start typing.

You can have as many notes as will fit on the screen, and you can always move notes around or stack them on top of one another. A dark mode is also available by pressing Alt+T. The site will automatically save your notes and layout for next t

Why quantum computing companies like D-Wave are using SPACs to IPO

Yet another quantum computing company has gone public via SPAC.

D-Wave completed a planned merger on Monday with DPCM Capital (the latter of which was already listed on the New York Stock Exchange), making the Canada-based firm the third quantum player to go public via a

Digital life insurance took off during COVID-19. Ladder wants to keep the momentum going

Jamie Hale, CEO and cofounder of digital life insurance firm Ladder, looks like he’s perpetually smiling. Even when he dives into statistics, there’s a smile tucked into his voice.

When Hale was 11, his father passed away unexpectedly. His father’s life insurance policy meant he and his mother and brother were able to stay in the same community and continue to be supported by family and friends.

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Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen on the secret sauce of ‘Clash of Clans,’ NFTs, and why he kills so many games

Mobile games tend to be ephemeral, with short half-lives that expire as soon as the next big game shows up. But Clash of Clans has been a leader in the space for more than a decade now, with no signs of slowing down.

Clash, released a little more th

The FCC shot down SpaceX’s bid for $866 million bid in subsidies to roll out Starlink in rural America

The Federal Communications Commission has rejected SpaceX’s bid for $866 million in subsidies to roll out Starlink in the rural U.S., according to a pre

Cable news has a more polarizing effect than social media, study finds

The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities in which a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this concern has focused on the rise of social media, which has radically transformed the infor

2 quick ways to spot dubious Amazon reviews

If you’ve bought enough stuff on Amazon, there’s a chance you’ve been duped once or twice. That’s because fake Amazon reviews are big business.

It’s also a big headache for consumers. Every time we buy a dud of a faux-five-star product, we grow more leery of buying products from Amazon in the future-even those that a

Microsoft vs. Meta: Who’s got the upper hand in the metaverse?

For the past year or so, we’ve been told the future of the internet is in the metaverse: a persistent, immersive, multiplayer, interoperable world that blurs the lines between the physical and digital. In reality, this vision of the metaverse is likely a long way away.

Google Search is rolling out its long-awaited updates to snippets

Google is rolling out changes to its featured snippets. While that text box at the top of a Google search page can be helpful, it’s also been known to spread misinformation.

The tech giant announced Thursday it was rolling out its latest AI model, called


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