[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere — or at least, that’s what it seems like to me: A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned in passing that his law professor had warned students not to cheat with AI on an upcoming exam. At the same time, I couldn’t escape the uncanny portraits people were generating …
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[ad_1] This is a standard streaming TV joke/complaint. There are so many different services that someone could put them all together and for all he would only have to pay one monthly fee. Just like cable TV! Hohoho. The problem is that most of the people who run streaming TV services don’t think there will …
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[ad_1] My beloved 10-year-old black bra finally broke last Christmas. The elastic had some slack and it’d been fraying for a while, but its death sentence came when the underwire popped out the side. While it wasn’t particularly special — just a normal T-shirt bra — it was comfortable and had clearly lasted a long …
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[ad_1] This will be the fourth year in a row that the staff of Future Perfect has given itself the task of trying to predict, well, the future. It’s in the name of the section, but forecasting is something that can benefit you as a thinker whether or not you can accurately see what’s to …
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[ad_1] This year has not been a great year for Big Tech. In 2022, the belt has tightened, with the economy faltering, stock prices falling, inflation soaring. Silicon Valley was one of the hardest hit places for him. One reason is that some of them have experienced explosive and sustained growth for so long that …
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[ad_1] Among the many items hidden in the $1.7 trillion appropriation bill Congress is about to pass to fund the government next year, it’s a small victory for TikTok’s enemies. It should be removed if installed. The move, championed by Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, is almost symbolic, as my colleague Sarah Morrison reported. …
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[ad_1] Amazon this week agreed to make a series of changes to its shopping sites and business practices in Europe, thus avoiding huge multi-billion dollar fines. sites, and logistics companies that compete with tech giants. The deal marks the first time in Amazon’s history that it has made a series of changes as a result …
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[ad_1] Critics have long dismissed electric vehicles as overly expensive, inconvenient, and impractical. But in 2022, we didn’t hear them. With record EV sales this year, there are now billions of dollars in new federal funding designed to encourage companies to build electric vehicles and encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. It has been. As …
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[ad_1] Have you noticed there are more ads on your iPhone this year? You aren’t wrong — there are. Hope you don’t mind, because in 2023 there may be even more of them, and in more places. Apple is getting more aggressive about its ad business, and the company’s increasingly controversial control over its products …
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[ad_1] Neither snow, rain, heat nor climate change will prevent these couriers from quickly completing their scheduled rounds. On Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to purchase 106,000 new vehicles by 2028. 66,000 of them are powered by electricity and have zero greenhouse gas emissions. His $9.6 billion investment in mail trucks and chargers …
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[ad_1] It’s been over 36 hours since people overwhelmingly voted for Elon Musk to step down as Twitter’s CEO (57.5% of nearly 17 million votes were in favor of Musk’s resignation). But instead of immediately publicly accepting the results of what he said he would do, after Musk himself started it on Twitter, a platform …
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[ad_1] If you’re a TikTok user, your For You page will be a little more transparent, the company said in a blog post Tuesday morning. It comes hours after unveiling a mandatory passage total spending bill that includes a clause banning TikTok from. The two moves symbolize TikTok’s difficult years in the United States as …
[ad_1] At first, 2022 looked like it would be another celebratory year for the extremely rich. In early January, Tesla stock was trading at well over $300 per share. Its CEO, Elon Musk, had recently been named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year. He was Earth’s richest person, an exemplar of capitalism gone right, a …
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[ad_1] Fortnite was playing with consumer protection laws while your kids were playing it. Epic Games, makers of the hugely popular Fortnite series, has documented the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) history of violations of children’s privacy and “dark patterns” that intentionally trick users into purchasing with manipulative designs. We have paid the largest two settlements. …
[ad_1] Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned the company and its platform upside down. Almost immediately after he took over, Musk booted top executives, slashed rank-and-file headcount by 50 percent, issued remaining employees an ultimatum to be “hardcore” in their work ethic or quit, and …
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