Technology
Apple Is Stepping Into the Metaverse. Will Anyone Care?
Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he was changing...
Hard Fork: AI Extinction Risk and Nvidia’s Trillion-Dollar Valuation
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | GoogleA few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT...
Boeing and NASA Delay Launch of Starliner Over Parachutes and Wiring
Why It Matters: NASA needs two rides to orbit.To get to and from the space station, NASA currently relies on...
Judge Dismisses D.C.’s Privacy Lawsuit Against Meta
The NewsA Superior Court judge on Thursday dismissed a privacy lawsuit against Meta by the District of Columbia, which had...
Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges
Amazon agreed on Wednesday to pay a civil penalty of $25 million to settle federal charges that it kept sensitive...
Using Alternative Apps and Shared Albums Instead of Mainstream Social Media
Even before the recent TikTok bans and mental-health concerns from the surgeon general, public attitudes toward social media have evolved....
The AI Boom Inside Silicon Valley Start-Up Accelerators
In Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get...
How the Shoggoth Meme Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.
A few months ago, while meeting with an A.I. executive in San Francisco, I spotted a strange sticker on his...
Elizabeth Holmes Set to Report to Prison Tuesday in Texas
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced entrepreneur who was convicted of defrauding investors at her failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is expected...
California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad. What’s Next?
California was the first state to pass tailpipe-emissions standards, the first to legalize the medical use of marijuana, the first...
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