In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier.
Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her then-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
But did Syed really do it? Was he locked up for a heinous murder or, as he claimed, falsely imprisoned for a crime he never committed
It is not surprising that programmers have been the primary beneficiaries of AI; after all, programming is precisely the sort of thing an AI can analyze. It’s a logical, structured science that relies on rules, conditions and structure. Some programmers fear that a wave of code-on-com
Michael Moya started driving for Uber and Lyft in 2019, back when he was living in Florida. He liked it for a while. It provided flexible hours, which was a major advantage for the father of three. And the money was pretty good: He could easily $300 in a six-hour shift.
He’s since moved to Massachusetts, and things have recently gotten much worse. Thanks to falling pay rates, to make $300, he now puts in about 12 hours. He’s working “pretty much every day” just to make that k
The biggest obstacle I’ve run into while reviewing the Plaud NotePin is figuring out what to do with it.
This $169 wearable gadget, which is just a bit wider than a AA battery, attaches magnetically to your clothing and records the audio around you. Plaud’s companion app then creates a transcript and uses GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate
Uber and Lyft are funding opposition efforts over a ballot initiative in San Francisco that’s meant to increase funding for the city’s public transit system.
Proposition L is the initiative (formerly the Community Transit Act) and it would create a new tax on ride-hailing companies, such as Uber, Lyft, and Waymo, and use those funds to restore transit services across the city. Right now, the SF Municipal Transit Association, which runs the Muni system, is facing a defic
With the veto of California’s AI bill, the idea of regulating frontier models may be in jeopardy.
The bill, SB 1047, would have required developers of the largest AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, and the like) to set up and report on a safety framework, and submit to outside safety audits. The bill also included a whistleblower protection clause, and required developers to build a “kill switch
Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction last week is still being felt in a number of states and the long-term impacts of the storm are still being assessed. Over 100 people have been reported dead from the storm so far (a number that’s expected to increase) and a
Minutes before the start of the debate vice presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a commitment of nonpartisanship. “We’re going to keep it very straight, see how they do,” he said in a video posted to Truth Social, the social platform he owns. “We’re going to say good
Snapchat failed to act on “rampant” reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its pla
