Taxing digital advertising could help break up big tech
For the past several years, economists, and government leaders have regularly sounded alarms about the dangers of big tech monopolies. On her 2020 campaign...
New Relic expands enterprise full-stack observability to include MLOps
As enterprises expand their machine learning (ML) capabilities to analyze data generated by increasingly complex applications, New Relic has updated its New Relic One...
Democratic donor Laurene Powell Jobs is expanding her political operation with...
Democratic megadonor and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is beefing up her political operation, bringing in heavyweights like former Massachusetts Congress member Joe Kennedy, the...
How Semi-Automated Offside Technology Will Change Qatar 2022 World Cup –...
FIFA has confirmed that its new semi-automated offside technology will be used at the Qatar 2022 World Cup. FIFA’s head of refereeing...
The Download: Microsoft’s quantum chip, and explaining rising energy demand
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DOGE has ‘god mode’ access to government systems The...
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
The bigger problem
But the true strength of online political advertising has been in sowing discord. Social-media networks function by running powerful content recommendation algorithms...
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never...
The myth of the high-tech heist
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a...
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never...
The myth of the high-tech heist
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a...
AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file...
The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A “QuitGPT”...
The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A first...
The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An experimental...
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ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never...
The myth of the high-tech heist
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a...
AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file...
The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A “QuitGPT”...
The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A first...