Here’s the biggest problem with Amazon Prime Video—and how it could be fixed

October 1 is the official kickoff of spooky-movie season, but this year, we simply could not wait. On the last day of September, my wife and I watched the 2013 throwback slasher, You’re Next, one of many horror movies available to stream that I’d compiled into a seasonal list. Good thing we didn’t wait until the next night, though—by then, You’re Next was no longer on Prime Video. We’d made it just under the wire.

Successfully streaming a movie in time probably sh

Facebook owner Meta is bringing back facial recognition tech. Here’s why

Three years after Meta shut down facial recognition software on Facebook amid a groundswell of privacy and regulator pushback, the social media giant said on Tuesday it is testing the service again as part of a crackdown on

We need a national STEM Act to stem the risk of a declining America

Wars have unintended consequences, and positive results can emerge from tragedy. For proof, just look at the list from NATO of some unexpected outcomes of R&D that led to society-changing benefits.

This NATO list explains where cargo pants came from, but rather than head down the rabbit hole, let’s focus on the American Education Act, which was established back in 1921. The World War I draft re

Kamala Harris is going all in on Snapchat. But Donald Trump is still banned

Since July, Kamala Harris’s campaign has purchased more than 5,000 Snapchat ads, amounting to an estimated $​​5.3 million.

It’s not hard to understand why: Snapchat is a haven for young people. According to an eMarketer estima

You’re going to have a robot coworker sooner than you think

They marched in line, interacted with guests, and poured drinks while making small talk. The vision of the future Elon Musk put forward with his Optimus humanoid robots at Tesla’s recent Cybercab event earlier this month was as astounding as it was unbelievable.

That latter word was important: It turned

Meta’s new AI model can check other models’ work

Facebook owner Meta said on Friday it was releasing a batch of new AI models from its research division, including a “Self-Taught Evaluator” that may offer a path toward less human involvement in the AI development process.

The release follows Meta’s in

Biden administration awards $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor for Michigan factory

The Biden administration said Monday that it would provide up to $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor for a new factory, a move that could help give Democrats a political edge in the swing state of Michigan ahead of election day.

The funding would support 180

Perplexity is sued by Dow Jones and ‘New York Post’ for copyright infringement

Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, which is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post both sued AI search startup Perplexity on Monday for infringing copyrighted content.

The News Corp.-owned companies accused Perplexity of a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their work. It marks the latest lawsuit in an ongoing battle between tech

Microsoft’s Copilot is adding AI agents for routine tasks

Microsoft will allow its customers to build autonomous artificial intelligence agents from next month, in its latest push to tap the booming technology amid growing investor scrutiny of its hefty AI investments.

The company is positioning autonomous agents—programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots—as “apps for an AI-driven world” that can handle client queries,

Rejection therapy is all the rage on TikTok. Don’t bank on it working

Being rejected is never fun—or is it? Most of us spend our lives trying to wipe these embarrassing moments from memory, however, on TikTok a recent trend sees people actively seeking out opportunities to get shot down, then filming and uploading the awkward encounter for millions to see. 

In one video, someone asks a barista for free coffee, just because. Another


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