How to Prepare for a Lost, Stolen or Broken Smartphone
The average smartphone contains so much of one’s personal life — photos, list of contacts, calendar, email, digital wallet — that the loss of that...
Does Your Home Have Backup Power? We Want to Hear From You.
The system that provides electricity to our homes is getting less reliable. Outages are more frequent and last for longer. More severe weather is likely...
Zoom to Lay Off 1,300 Workers, Joining Other Tech Giants
Zoom, the videoconferencing giant that grew rapidly during the pandemic, said on Tuesday that it was laying off 15 percent of its work force, or...
Ex-Coinbase Employee Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
A former employee of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty on Tuesday to insider trading, the first time a crypto industry insider has admitted to...
Microsoft Launches New Bing Likely Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 A.I
It’s been a rough few months for the tech industry. There have been tens of thousands of layoffs, hundreds of billions in value lost on...
Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Coming Soon. Maybe.
More than three years after Elon Musk stunned the auto industry with an electric pickup truck that looked more like a stealth fighter than a...
How Deepfake Videos Are Used to Spread Disinformation
Although the use of deepfakes in the recently discovered pro-China disinformation campaign was ham-handed, it opens a new chapter in information warfare. In recent weeks,...
Meta, Long an AI Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom
SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks before a chatbot called ChatGPT appeared on the internet in November and wowed the world, Meta, the owner of Facebook,...
Google to Release Bard, Its AI Chatbot Rival to ChatGPT
Google said on Monday that it would soon release an experimental chatbot called Bard as it races to respond to ChatGPT, which has wowed millions...
Elon Musk Is His Own Spokesman
Particularly since the main subject of the coverage appears to be paying close attention. A self-professed “free speech absolutist,” Mr. Musk has said that he...
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. Is It Working?
Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted. A recommendation engine suggesting that a user follow content related to exploited children....
Do You Work in the Auto Industry? We Want to Hear From You.
Growth in sales of electric vehicles has created thousands of jobs in auto manufacturing, batteries and other new fields, but not without turmoil. There is...
At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots
Marisa Shuman’s computer science class at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx began as usual on a recent January morning. Just after 11:30,...
Are You Switching to a Heat Pump? We Want to Hear From You.
As the world moves to electrify everything from cars to heating in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, heat pumps have become more popular....