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What are blind vias and how are they utilized in HDI PCBs?

blind vias and how are they utilized in HDI PCBs Vias are barrel shaped vertical conductive holes that make connections

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Here Come the AI Worms

As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work.

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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for ‘Flagrant Breaches’ of Contract

“Let’s remember that Elon Musk has multiple competing AI efforts, but notably [he founded] xAI, a competing AI company,” says

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The Mind-Blowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly

If all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance

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The Wild Claim at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit

Elon Musk started the week by posting testily on X about his struggles to set up a new laptop running

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Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet

Paid autonomous vehicle service is coming to Los Angeles, thanks to a decision by California regulators today to allow Alphabet

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Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well

Soon after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, now called X, the platform faced a massive problem: Advertisers were fleeing.

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Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to

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The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways

The US government has launched an investigation into the national security risks posed by foreign-made vehicles with internet connectivity—especially those

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Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament

Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament, amid accusations that the

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RIP Apple Car. This Is Why It Died

All these firms seek to capitalize on what Apple recognized a decade ago: The software and connectivity now built into

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An AT&T Outage Is Wreaking Havoc on US Cellular Networks

It started around 3:30 in the morning on the East Coast, reports flooding in about an AT&T service outage. Customers

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How a Small Iowa Newspaper’s Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory

In his spare time, Tony Eastin likes to dabble in the stock market. One day last year, he Googled a

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The US Supreme Court Holds the Future of the Internet in Its Hands

The US Supreme Court seems torn over whether to trigger a radical transformation of the internet. The nation’s highest court

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Pav Gil Helped Bring Down Wirecard. His New Startup Aims to Shield Whistleblowers From Harm

In September 2017, Singapore-based lawyer Pav Gill took a job at Wirecard, a high-flying German payments business worth tens of

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Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian

Advance, the owner of Condé, owns 30 percent of Reddit with other investors, board members, and employees holding the rest.

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Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them

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My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI

Two words in this statement popped out to me like a flying dinosaur in a mixed-reality headset: when possible. When

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Bitcoin Royalty Descends on the Satoshi Nakamoto Trial

Bitcoin was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, an enigmatic figure about whom almost nothing is known. Fifteen years ago, Satoshi brought

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Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying

Reddit didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story. Unwanted Offer Reddit’s investment offer to users is

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There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future

Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its

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Intel’s CEO Says AI Is the Key to the Company’s Comeback

When veteran engineer and executive Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, the once-great chipmaker was in a

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When My Country Invaded Ukraine, I Faced a Choice: Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death

A month later, the world saw images of mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, dead limbs sticking out

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Intel’s AI Reboot Is the Future of US Chipmaking

Gina Raimondo, the US secretary of commerce, spoke at Intel’s event today and compared the US government’s current focus on

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The Skilled Workers Training AI to Take Their Jobs

Earning up to $60 per hour, Jay was an early recruit, joining Remotasks the month before OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to

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Exploring Building Codes: Cable Railing Installations

Exploring Building Codes: Cable Railing Installations As the architectural and interior design industries continue to evolve, homeowners and builders are

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Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present

“An artist friend of mine got me an AI-generated painting as a gift. I can see she tried to personalize

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Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to harvest metal. For his 2017 book on the subject, Metal Scrappers and

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Wie man Etiketten von LED-Streifen entfernt: Eine Anleitung

Wie man Etiketten von LED-Streifen entfernt: Das Entfernen von Etiketten von LED-Streifen kann eine einfache Aufgabe sein, aber es erfordert

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Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far

In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will

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The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marina’s voice is barely above a whisper. “When

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Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them

In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and

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Google’s Flagship Gemini AI Model Gets a Major Upgrade

Alphabet’s Gemini AI model has been public for only two months, but the company is already releasing an upgrade. Gemini

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Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled

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Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes

A month ago, the consulting company Accenture presented a potential client an unusual and attention-grabbing pitch for a new project.

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Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites

I might have inadvertently insulted Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor when I interviewed them about their new AI startup last

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OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos

We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time

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ChatGPT vs Gemini: Which AI Chatbot Subscription Is Right for You?

The problem with testing AI chatbot subscriptions like Google’s Gemini Advanced and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus is their generality. The same

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The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin

Among various acts of alleged forgery, Hough charged that Wright backdated documents to make them seem like precursors to the

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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

It has been a rocky year for plans for large-scale cultivated meat production. In May 2022, another Californian startup, Eat

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Page not found | WIRED Page Not Found Whoops, that page is missing! If you clicked a link that led

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Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store

Watching pirated movies on your iPhone just got a little harder. After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the

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Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future

Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads, but it has increasingly experimented with

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How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google’s Subscription-Only AI Chatbot

Google just upgraded its AI chatbot. Access to the new Gemini Advanced chatbot is available right now through a monthly

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Developers Are in Open Revolt Over Apple’s New App Store Rules

A battle for control is taking place inside iPhones across Europe. While Apple introduced new rules that ostensibly loosen its

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai still loves the web. He wakes up every morning and reads Techmeme, a news aggregator resplendent

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Google Rebrands Its AI Chatbot as Gemini to Take On ChatGPT

When OpenAI’s ChatGPT opened a new era in tech, the industry’s former AI champ, Google, responded by reorganizing its labs

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’

Our goal is to combine both approaches—to run a moderation service that tries to provide a baseline and to also

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Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot

Goody-2 also highlights how although corporate talk of responsible AI and deflection by chatbots have become more common, serious safety

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Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do

Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing the creative spark?

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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

In response to WIRED’s Freedom of Information request, the TfL says it used existing CCTV images, AI algorithms, and “numerous

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AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

Many people—like, say, journalists—are understandably antsy about what generative artificial intelligence might mean for the future of their profession. It

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Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

As CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud computing platform AWS, Adam Selipsky is one of the most powerful people in computing

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LinkedIn’s New AI Chatbot Wants to Help You Find Your Next Job

LinkedIn is rolling out new features that give premium users looking for a job some artificial-intelligence-powered assistance. The tools use

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Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes—but Leave Plenty Undetected

Meta, like other leading tech companies, has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence.

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The Trial Over Bitcoin’s True Creator Is in Session

For eight years, Craig Wright has claimed to be the elusive Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. On Monday, in the swelling

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‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO

TikTok has irreversibly bent our culture’s trajectory, but that doesn’t guarantee it’ll be around to reap the benefits. (India banned

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Craig Wright Claims He’s Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Can He Prove It in Court?

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founding father of cryptocurrency—and a mystery. In October 2008, Nakamoto gave Bitcoin to the world. Then

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Google Filing Reveals It Slashed Spending on Acquisitions in 2023

Pennies were pinched in Mountain View last year. For much of its existence as a public company, Google had made

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After 20 Years of Facebook, Lawmakers Are Still Trying to Fix It

It’s been 20 years since Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg released a program called Thefacebook to his college community, launching a

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You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC, last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat Just’s director

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FTX Says It Expects to Repay Customers in Full. Some Are Suing for More

A group of former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX are rebelling against a proposed plan that would return the

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The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved

When more than $400 million worth of crypto was mysteriously pulled out of the coffers of what was once the

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I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

The most famous virtual valets around today—Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—are a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots

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Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, since rebranded as X, his favorite letter of the alphabet, he went on a

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Google Splits Up a Key AI Ethics Watchdog

When Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed his workers the company priorities for 2024 this month, developing AI responsibly was top

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Hulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI

Hulu ran an anti-Hamas ad that appears to be made using artificial intelligence to show an idealized version of Gaza—claiming

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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

“A process called reinforcement learning from human feedback is used right now in every state-of-the-art model,” to fine-tune its responses,

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US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools

The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police

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We Tried a Dating App That Lets a Chatbot Break the Ice for You. It Got Weird

More than a decade of dating apps has shown the process can be excruciating. A new app is trying to

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A Last-Ditch Plan to Save the Crypto Industry

The book traces the following thesis: At first, the internet was open, but limited. Private companies brought interactivity to the

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Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs

This is not the first time that researchers have suspected ElevenLabs tools were used for political propaganda. Last September, NewsGuard,

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Apple Isn’t Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store

“Especially for the big app developers with loads of downloads, who are the ones that really Apple make all their

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OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects

When OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm last year, it caught many power brokers in both Silicon Valley and

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How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm

What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just

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Robot Car Crash Investigation Concludes GM’s Cruise Didn’t Disclose Key Information

A law firm hired by the General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary Cruise to investigate the company’s response to a gruesome San

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Elon Musk Says a Cheaper Tesla Model Is Coming in 2025 as Chinese Competition Intensifies

A cheaper model of Tesla electric vehicle is coming late next year, CEO Elon Musk told investors today. If it

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OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

WIRED’s request for the documents promised in OpenAI’s IRS filings fell to the counsel for its nonprofit to decide on.

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Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

Delange said that open source language models are improving rapidly and can be better than OpenAI’s market-leading GPT-4 for some

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Google Circle to Search and AI-Powered Multi-Search Coming to Mobile

In recent years Google has used the word “helpful” to describe new features added to its search product, its voice

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ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for

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Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

Lobbyists for cable companies and advertisers yesterday expressed their displeasure with a proposed “click-to-cancel” regulation that aims to make it

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How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

Your internet service provider could have a good idea of who you’re planning to vote for in the 2024 election

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Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules

On January 24, Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40. Normally that number is an inexorable milestone of middle age. Indeed, in

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The One Part of Apple Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal. Courtesy of Joanna Stern If Vision Pro is mostly meant to be used

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Apple Turned Its Epic Defeat Into Another App Store Victory

The revisions provide developers “a meaningful opportunity” to do business outside of Apple’s billing system “while also enabling users to

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An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of

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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise

The past year has brought a reckoning in the tech job industry across the US, upending career trajectories for recent

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Lawmakers Are Out for Blood After a Hack of the SEC’s X Account Causes Bitcoin Chaos

X said an “unidentified individual” had used a phone number tied to the SEC’s account to seize control. The account

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Bitcoin ETFs Have Arrived. Here’s Who Stands to Get Rich

US regulators have approved a new breed of financial product that will give people a way to invest in bitcoin

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How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store

Get ready to share your custom chatbot with the whole world. Well, at least with other ChatGPT Plus subscribers. OpenAI

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The White House Just Announced a $623 Million EV-Charging Bonanza

As the number of electric vehicles on American roads grows, so too does the affliction of range anxiety. Drivers of

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How to Address Safety Concerns During Commercial Roofing Projects

Safety Concerns During Commercial Roofing Projects Roofing projects can be dangerous for workers, but proper precautions can minimize risks and

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Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks

For those who trade in child sexual exploitation images and videos in the darkest recesses of the internet, cryptocurrency has

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Toyota’s Robots Are Learning to Do Housework—By Copying Humans

As someone who quite enjoys the Zen of tidying up, I was only too happy to grab a dustpan and

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No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren’t Happening Again

So far, 2024 is off to a start that looks a lot like 2023—with a week full of job cuts

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Your Medical Data Is Code Blue

Until last November, I had never heard of Perry Johnson and Associates. But they had heard of me. In fact,

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Add a Touch of Africa to Your Home With Elephant Decor

Africa to Your Home With Elephant Decor Elephants are symbolic of strength and prosperity, so it’s no surprise that they’re

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The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes

As terrible as that tradeoff is, it’s worth noting that the risk of death on a commercial airliner to anyone,

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The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max

Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita-based aerospace manufacturer that manufactured the door plug that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight, declined

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Why Crypto Idealogues Won’t Touch Bitcoin ETFs

Bitcoin devotees are declaring a historic victory after US regulators approved a new, more accessible way for people to invest

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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? The question is hotly

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OpenAI’s New App Store Could Turn ChatGPT Into an Everything App

ChatGPT also functions as a kind of translator or helper for GPT apps. When WIRED asked the AllTrails GPT to

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Rumble Is Part of an ‘Active and Ongoing’ SEC Investigation

In May 2021, the site was reportedly valued at an estimated $500 million. In September 2022, Rumble became a publicly

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How to Encourage More Women to Pursue Careers in Electrical Work

Encourage More Women to Pursue Careers in Electrical Work Women are making great strides in breaking into male-dominated fields. Their

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In Defense of AI Hallucinations

No one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there’s

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The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves

Some robots, including from Boston Dynamics, are already doing warehouse work. Do you expect to see that humanoid workforce growing

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As Robotaxis Hit City Streets, Local Officials Often Have Little Power Over Them

Jeff Farrah, CEO of lobbying group the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, which counts Waymo, Cruise, and other self-driving developers in

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Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience

Fleming believed that growth has natural limits. Things grow to maturity—kids into adults, saplings into trees, startups into full-fledged companies—but

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Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse

On January 1, Mike Neville gave Midjourney the following prompt: “Steamboat Willie drawn in a vintage Disney style, black and

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AI May Not Steal Your Job, but It Could Stop You Getting Hired

If you’ve worried that candidate-screening algorithms could be standing between you and your dream job, reading Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm

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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023

In 2023, the world has felt like it was balanced on a precipice. A United States presidential election looms, with

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Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0

If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. Just

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How to Use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Create Your Own Custom GPT

I was never afraid to train an AI chatbot on my writing, because OpenAI had already broken the seal. CEO

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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home

For Big Tech, there are few better places to experiment with data center heating than in the Nordics. This idea

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New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Causing a Christmas Crunch

Christmas is in full swing in New York City; lines snake through Midtown as tourists oggle department store windows and

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Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird

In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a

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Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe

The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to

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The Holy Grail of Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. Or Is It?

Andersen and Lensky of Google disagree. They do not think the experiment demonstrates a topological qubit, because the object cannot

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The Race to Fill Crypto’s FTX-Shaped Hole

When crypto exchange FTX collapsed, it left behind a hole in the market. From Backpack to OPNX, faces new and

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How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better

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Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff

Clare Walker, a 23-year-old in Brooklyn, has racked up about $700 worth of gift cards or, in her words, “free

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America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch

The lawmakers’ letter also claims that NIST is being rushed to define standards even though research into testing AI systems

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Sorry California, Amazon Will No Longer Sell You Donkey Meat

If you are planning to buy your donkey meat on Amazon this Christmas, you may have to look elsewhere. The

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The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections

Joseph Jerome, who left privacy advocacy to work on Meta’s augmented reality data policies for two years before being laid

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Lamborghini Revuelto 2024 Review, Specs, Price, Availability

Such is the fluidity of this interchange between electric and combustion that, after a time, you stop thinking of the

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound

The cost rivals that of the largest private, personal construction projects in human history. Building permits put the price tag

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EU Investigates Elon Musk’s X for Spreading Illegal Content

The relationship between Elon Musk and the European Union deteriorated further on Monday, with the bloc launching a formal investigation

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Pinterest Is Having a Moment

Gen Z-ers are making aspirational boards about houses they want to live in, places they want to visit, and even

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My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was

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OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably

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Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday.

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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around