The U.S.-China tech war is all but certain to heat up no matter whether Republican Donald Trump or Vice President
Whenever I find that midnight has come and gone and I’m still awake, I immediately accomplish a daily ritual:
- I play Wordle, the New York Times’s figure-out-the-five-letter-word puzzle;
- And then I play another Times word game, Connections.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m one of millions who plan their waking hours around these Times games and others such as
If you are not drinking your water infused with the latest miracle vegetable, what are you doing? Slices of lemon or cucumber are out, instead people are infusing their water with chia seeds or, most recently, okra.
Searches for okra water have spiked by 470% on Pinterest, according to the company’s fall trend report. On TikTok, wellness influencers are promoting the slimy beverage’s benef
Everything is more difficult in space, and learning software is no exception. But the pressure to push AI into everything can’t be denied.
U.S. satellite operator Spire will work with Mission Control, a Canadian space software company, on a demo mission to launch in 2025 that will see a Spire-built Earth observation (EO) satellite use Mission Control machine learning models to perform analyses in orbit.
Founded in 2015, Mission Control develops software for autonom
Here’s a tantalizing little paradox to chew over: One of the most interesting up-and-coming productivity apps is also one of the most immediately familiar-feeling—on the surface, at least.
The app is called Capacities. At this point, most of its recognition revolves around the fact that it was recently featured as a top productivity pick by tech jou
Anthropic is giving its new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model the ability to control a user’s computer and access the internet. The move marks a major step in generative AI models’ capabilities—and raises questions about AI companies’ ability to properly mitigate the risks of more autonomous AI.
According to a series of example videos from Anthrop
Two years ago, Netflix turned heads in the gaming world. It hired former Overwatch leader Chacko Sonny to head a new game studio. The next year, former Halo exec Joseph Staten and God of War art director Rafael Grassetti joined Team Blue, Netflix’s top-tier video game studio, a signal that the streaming service could be preparing to go toe-to-toe with the video game industry’s biggest publishers
And now, in an equally stunning move, Netflix has shut
Anthropic, a startup backed by Alphabet and Amazon.com, released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, along with a new capability to autonomously perform computer tasks and save users keystrokes.
The new “computer use” feature can tell AI “where to move the mouse, where to click, what to type, in order to do quite complicated tasks,” Anthropic’s Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said in an interview.
The capability is
Americans concerned about voter fraud in this year’s general election have found their latest target: a TikTok grandma.
In a since-deleted video posted to TikTok, a woman helped her grandma vote for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. “Ok, grandma. Do you want to vote for the first Black woman president ever?” the woman asks. “Yes,” the grandma responds.
After helping her grandmother mark the ballot, the woman congratulates her on v
Meta on Monday suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track celebrities’ private jet movements, according to Jack Sweeney, who has been running such accounts.
Meta told TechCrunch that the accounts violated its privacy policy. “Given the risk of phys