12 Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers (2024): Earbuds, Soundbars, Displays
Amazon’s family of Alexa-enabled devices is vast. From the spherical Echo to the swiveling Echo Show 10, you can get Alexa into your home...
The era of cheap helium is over—and that’s already causing problems
A delicate balance The helium we use today formed from the breakdown of radioactive materials millions of years ago and has been trapped in...
7 Best Theragun-Alternative Massage Guns (2024): Portable, Affordable, and Heat Therapy
Lyric Massager for $172: Lyric's massager was one of our top picks. As of this writing, the brand's website is down to prepare for...
Rust developers concerned about complexity, low usage
While the use of Rust language by professional programmers continues to grow, Rust users expressed concerns about the language becoming too complex and the...
JetBrains IDEs preview new terminal
JetBrains has made a beta version of a new terminal available in JetBrains IDEs starting with version 2024.1. The new terminal combines the look...
Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying
Reddit didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.Unwanted OfferReddit’s investment offer to users is known as the Directed Share Program....
The Download: Alabama’s embryo ruling impact, and remote learning for pre-schoolers
This story is from the next issue of MIT Technology Review, all about hidden worlds. It’s set to go live next Wednesday—subscribe now so you...
The weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs
Justice Jay Mitchell, writing for the majority, pounced on what he called the “latent implication” of the defense’s argument. What about a baby growing...
When cloud AI lands you in court
In a recent legal ruling against Air Canada in a small claims court, the airline lost because its AI-powered chatbot provided incorrect information about...
Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI
Far-right internet troll Ian Miles Cheong blamed the entire situation on Krawczyk, whom he labeled a “woke, race-obsessed idiot” while referencing posts on X...
