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'More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union,' reports the Associated Press, 'and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.' Supporters said the new law will ...
ScienceAlert writes that some of the tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil 'can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found.' A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the UK placed radishes into a hydroponic (water-based) system ...
'It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast,' writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains 'this moment we're living through, this...
Friday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced two changes coming 'soon' to Sora: First, we will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls... Second, we are going to have to somehow...
There's an 85-second ad (starring a humanoid robot) that argues 'Technology promised to save us time. Instead it stole our focus. Opera Neon gives you both back.' Or, as BleepingComputer describes it, Opera Neon 'is a new browser that puts AI in control of your tabs and...
The Washington Post notes AI's 'increasingly outsize role' in propping up America's economic fortunes. 'Last week, the United States reported that the economy expanded at a rate of 1.6 percent in the first half of the year, with most of that growth driven by AI spending....
From models for traveling to humidifiers that double as planters or air purifiers, we've tested a dozen of them.
Anyone who thought command line tools were in danger of being consigned to the history books, Google’s unveiling of Jules Tools put pay to that idea. For anyone not familiar with Google’s offerings, Jules Tools is a command line interface for its Jules asynchronous...
Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…
Ninja’s slushie machine made me more popular, and more tipsy, this summer. This is the first real deal I’ve seen on it.
The book Life 3.0 remembers a 2017 conversation where Alphabet CEO Larry Page 'made a 'passionate' argument for the idea that 'digital life is the natural and desirable next step' in 'cosmic evolution',' remembers an essay in the Wall Street Journal. 'Restraining the rise of ...
These portable heaters will heat a room quickly, quietly, and safely.
We break down the current iPad lineup to help you figure out which of Apple’s tablets is best for you.
The personal data of Discord users has been exposed after a third-party customer service provider suffered a data breach. Hackers were able to obtain support tickets from an unnamed company used by Discord to provide support. From this, they were then able to gain access to...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.
If you care about good air, it’s time for a dehumidifier. These are the best ones we've tested for everything from basements to drying laundry.
'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it' A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…
Currently DNA synthesis companies 'deploy biosecurity software designed to guard against nefarious activity,' reports the Washington Post, 'by flagging proteins of concern — for example, known toxins or components of pathogens.' But Microsoft researchers discovered 'up to 100...
'When someone searches for 'James Bond' on Prime Video now, all of the classic films will show up...' notes Parade. But recently Amazon's streaming service had tried new thumbnails with 'matching minimalist backgrounds,' so every Bond actor — from Sean Connery to Daniel...
If you upload an image to serve as the inspiration for an AI-generated video from OpenAI's Sora, 'the app will reject your image if it detects a face — any face,' writes Mashable.' (Unless that person has agreed to participate.) All Sora videos also include a watermark,...
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