The Download: AI comics, and US tensions with China over EVs
—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story about a man who eats...
Java developers wanted, report says
Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said their companies plan to add Java developers this year, while a bit less than...
How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change
Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but it was easy to...
Gleam language available in first stable release
Gleam, a programming language designed to ease the development of type-safe, scalable systems, is now available in version 1.0.0, the language’s first stable release.Compiling...
I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
LORE MACHINE / WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN “My wife hated that project,” he says. “I was up to four in the morning,...
Diletta Bello Review: Perfect Crema Comes at a Cost
When an espresso machine costs over $1,500, it can be trickier to test than cheaper models. It’s sort of like testing a high-end camera....
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...
