For years, the EU has had a grand plan to try and keep track of those passing in and out of its trading bloc of 27 countries. It would introduce a biometric border-check system that would log fingerprints and photographs, similar to what’s in place at the U.S. border.
The system was first meant to be introduced in 2022. Then May 2023. Then the end of that year. A new date of October 6, 2024, was set, but that’s
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Google’s free NotebookLM made improvements on October 17 to what has become one of the most powerful ways to use AI. You can now customize its most popular featur
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European scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of interpreting pig sounds, aiming to create a tool that can help farmers improve animal welfare.
The algorithm could potentially alert farmers to negative emotions in pigs, thereby improving their well-being, according to Elodie Mandel-Briefer, a behavioral biologist at University of Copenhagen who is co-leading the study.
The scientists, from universities in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Fr
The month of October has me thinking about monsters—and, specifically, mutants.
That’s a strange way to start a conversation about tech topics, I realize. But stay with me: I promise this is going somewhere.
I keep having the thought, y’see, that some of the best and most useful apps out there would be even better if we could somehow combine ’em and create new, superpowered mutant app mega-tools.
And there’s no place that’s more true than with the time-
At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her bosses assigned her to cover a chess tournament featuring Magnus Carlsen, who was then a 23-year-old Norwegian phenom.
Carlsen had skyrocketed from a 13-year-old grandmaster to International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Champion, captivating N
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After months of anticipation, Apple’s official foray into the world of artificial intelligence launches this week. That’s when the company will roll out its Apple Intelligence AI platform to eligible devices. Apple isn’t being shy about how profound of an event this will be for the company and its future. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CE
A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images depicting children he knew being sexually abused. A software engineer charged with
Fresh off a stint as the internet’s most mendacious purveyor of vile conspiracy theories in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina, Elon Musk has moved onto a new and exciting phase of his career in reactionary politics: stumping for his preferred presidential candidate, Republican nominee Donald Trump. Musk, who has already