Collaborate Disseminate
Wednesday Rest of World noticed an overlooked tech story in Argentina:
Olga de León looked confused as she walked out of a nightclub on the edge of Buenos Aires on a recent Tuesday afternoon. She had just had her iris scanned. “No one told me w… Continue reading In Argentina, Facing Surging Inflation, 500K Accept Worldcoin’s Offer of $50 for Iris-Scanning
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mint:
Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new Grok AI-powered feature called ‘Stories’, which allows users to read summaries of a trending post on the social media platf… Continue reading Elon Musk’s X Launches Grok AI-Powered ‘Stories’ Feature
“Without San Francisco, Star Wars wouldn’t exist,” says David Reat, the culture studies director of the architecture department at Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde.
SFGate reports:
Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, where his father expected … Continue reading How ‘Star Wars’ was Influenced by San Francisco – and Architecture
Science Alert reports that a team of researchers found “that changes in glucose metabolism could help cancer grow by temporarily disabling a gene that protects us from tumors called BRCA2.”
The team first examined people who inherited one faulty copy … Continue reading Scientists Find a ‘Missing Link’ Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk
From the Washington Post’s “Technology 202” newsletter:
As tech giants move toward a world in which chatbots supplement, and perhaps supplant, search engines, the Microsoft executive assigned to make sure AI is used responsibly said the industry has t… Continue reading Microsoft’s ‘Responsible AI’ Chief Worries About the Open Web
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arres… Continue reading Can Technology Help Reduce Drunk-Driving Deaths?
A “string of legal victories” by America’s market-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission “has jolted some of crypto’s biggest players,” reports Politico — even as they’re seeking more credibility with U.S. lawmakers:
Judges have recently r… Continue reading America’s Federal Regulators Are Preparing More Lawsuits Against Crypto Companies
“What if the big tech companies achieved their ultimate business goal — maximizing engagement on their platforms — in a way that has undermined our ability to function as an open society?”
That’s the question being asked by Chuck Todd, ch… Continue reading Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech’s Polarizing Power?
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate:
Late last year, tales of tech workers paying $700 a month for tiny “bed pods” in downtown San Francisco went viral. The story provided a perfect distillation of SF’s wild (and wildly expensive) housin… Continue reading Some San Francisco Tech Workers are Renting Cheap ‘Bed Pods’
The Associated Press reports that an F-16 performing aerial combat tests at 550 miles per hour was “controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot.”
And riding in the front seat was the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force…
AI marks one of th… Continue reading AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test