If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know.…
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We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave…
Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of…
The July 5 launch of Threads, Instagram’s new social media platform, has met with considerable interest. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was…
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe…
Cultivating one hectare of maize used to be an arduous task for Precious Banda, a farmer in Zambia. It would…
Most of us go online multiple times a day. About half of 18–29 year olds surveyed in a 2021 Pew Research Study said they…
If you’ve been online much recently, chances are you’ve seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such…
A new social media trend has recently emerged in response to the materialistic nature of influencer culture: deinfluencing. This trend involves…
We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be…