Roundtables: The AI Economy
The AI EconomySpeakers: Mat Honan, Editor in chief and David Rotman, Editor at large There’s no doubt that generative AI will impact the economy—but...
The open source problem
Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the problem some think. You’ll hear people rail against corporations that falsely describing...
It’s Not Easy Running a Geeky Business
Carol Pinchefsky has written almost 2,000 articles about geek culture for outlets such as Forbes.com, Playboy.com, and Syfy.com. Over the past 20 years, she’s...
HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times
HP launched a subscription service Thursday that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends them ink for...
JetBrains Compose Multiplatform debuts UI testing API
JetBrains has released Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company’s declarative UI framework that introduces a UI testing API and improves the common...
Biden executive order protects personal data
President Joseph Biden has issued an executive order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation from countries of concern including China, Russa,...
A Leap Year Glitch Broke Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Across New Zealand
Yesterday was Leap Day, meaning that for the first time in four years, it was February 29. That's normally a quirky, astronomical factoid (or...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI alleging breach of founding agreement
Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s founding board members and investors, has filed a lawsuit against the company and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that...
The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups
1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10% by 2025. (NYT $)+ AI’s carbon...
How some bacteria are cleaning up our messy water supply
It’s not just medicines. A dizzying number of personal care products also end up in the sewers—coconut shampoos and hydrating body washes and expensive...
