OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
That’s not to downplay OpenAI’s achievement. And a tool like this has many new uses, both good—from powering better chatbots to helping people code—and...
How Will Covid Be Remembered?
This is the flask in which Donoghue distills the drama of the 1918 pandemic. It’s a good choice. Adults in the prime of life...
New Swift project handles server app startup, shutdown
The developers behind Apple’s Swift language have introduced an open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, called Swift Service Lifecycle, to aid server applications...
Micro-X receives FDA clearance for mobile x-ray technology – Small Caps
Australian technology company Micro-X (ASX: MX1) has obtained early approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell its Rover...
Dystopia Isn’t Sci-Fi—for Me, It’s the American Reality
And then, many years later, I read "The Day Before the Revolution," the prequel short story to The Dispossessed, and found in it the...
“Do More with R” video tutorials
‘Do More with R’ offers quick video tips on useful things you can do in the R programming language. Now you can search these...
Contraband cellphones have given us prison TikTok
When Adnan Khan was sent to jail in 2003 at the age of 18, texting wasn’t all that popular. But by the time he...
Emoji reveal more about you than you think
Since these digital pictographs debuted on mobile phones two decades ago, emoji have become a ubiquitous facet of human communication. There are now...
A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world
The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit on it. When a...
What comes after Zoom fatigue
It’s well over 100 days into the Covid-19 crisis, and I have to make a confession: I hate doing everything over video chat. I...
