Hello! Welcome back to About technology: AIa pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. Last week… Read More »How to use AI to automate the dreaded office meeting
Enlarge / A photo of the 2023 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia on the shelf in the author’s family room. Ben Edwards Today, many… Read More »I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I have no regrets
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Apple kicked off the week with the announcement of a mixed reality… Read More »Apple’s Face Computer, Crypto Chaos and How Teens Really Think About Social Media
Enlarge / Artist’s concept of a gamma ray burst. Supernovae are some of the most energetic events in the universe. And a subset of that… Read More »Coincidentally, a telescope pointed to the brightest supernova ever observed
Mark Zuckerberg has spent the past nine months against the ropes as his company made major headcount cuts and struggled to gain mainstream traction with… Read More »After a rocky year, Zuckerberg presents Meta’s roadmap to employees
Enlarge / GM is the second U.S. automaker to ditch the CCS port (pictured) for Tesla’s design. Cadillac Tesla’s Supercharger network is about to get… Read More »Tesla will add General Motors to its charger standard next year
Over the past year, state legislators concerned about a mental health crisis among the nation’s youth passed a slew of online safety measures for children.… Read More »Louisiana passes bill requiring parental consent for children’s online accounts
Anyone who has taken a basic computer science course has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm – code that puts an unordered list of… Read More »AI system devises first code sorting optimizations in more than a decade
One morning this spring, a dozen or so students huddled in front of communal classrooms, staring at math lessons on their laptops. The sixth graders… Read More »Khan Academy’s AI Tutor Bot aims to reimagine learning
Enlarge / The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen before the launch of Artemis I. Trevor Mahlman A Colorado-based company, Wilson Aerospace, is suing… Read More »Boeing has filed a lawsuit over alleged “theft” of SLS missile tools
Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s CEO on Tuesday, accusing the company of making misleading claims to Congress about how it stores and processes… Read More »Senators accuse TikTok of misleading Congress over US user data
Getty Images | adamkaz The Federal Communications Commission has issued a $5.1 million fine against pro-Trump robocallers who targeted black people with calls promoting a… Read More »Robocalls claiming voters would be given “mandatory vaccines” result in $5 million fine
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Universal Pictures and its arthouse sibling Focus Features set alarm bells ringing in Hollywood by ending the… Read More »Universal says its on-demand movie strategy has increased its audience
Trailer for the second season of Good omens. We loved Prime Video’s 2019 TV adaptation Good omens, the classic 1990 satirical fantasy novel by Neil… Read More »Jon Hamm is an amnesiac archangel lost in Soho in Good Omens S2 trailer
The life of Doug Fulop and Jessie Fischer in Bend, Oregon, was idyllic. The couple moved there last year and worked remotely in a 2,400-square-foot… Read More »The AI boom is drawing tech entrepreneurs back to San Francisco
