Mass layoffs and general chaos: How Elon Musk is changing Twitter
Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned…
Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. Giacomo Miceli…
The Download: Twitter’s user exodus, and fixing bridges
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Here’s how personalized brain stimulation could treat depression
The resulting mood decoder enabled the researchers to identify how each of the volunteers was feeling…
OpenAI debuts DALL-E API so devs can integrate its AI artwork into their apps
Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting…
The FCC wants to regulate space. Have fun!
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to open a bureau specifically devoted to space. This new…
Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over
From October 27 through November 1, Bot Sentinel found that 11,535 accounts they were monitoring had…
The Download: updates from our flagship EmTech event, and cleaning up the grid
Which technologies are creating new opportunities for our planet, our bodies and our businesses? That question…
New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said,…
Accelerating the energy transition with Web3 technologies
“We are witnessing a paradigm shift from a centralized internet world to a decentralized one, which…
In-Depth Admin Exploration: Shopify Collections
In the following article, we explain what collections on Shopify are. Our guide explores two major…
Elizabeth Warren wants to keep Big Tech from taking over your car
Elizabeth Warren has a new Big Tech target: its growing presence in our cars. The Democratic…
Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. reader comments 99 with 85…
Who’s winning, and losing, in the Elon Twitter era
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been chaotic, to say the least. He repeatedly changed his…
The Download: Vine revisited, and AI ethicist burnout
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The Best BigCommerce Apps for Mobile
There are a number of e-commerce sites with specialized app stores. BigCommerce fits this description too….
Replit’s Ghostwriter AI can explain programs to you—or help write them
Enlarge / Replit’s Ghostwriter AI tool can assist you while you code. reader comments 42 with…
The Best BigCommerce Apps for Marketing
In e-commerce, extensions and third-party apps are extremely helpful. Such add-ons’ main objective is to simplify…
Rich crypto executives really want voters to care about crypto. Good luck with that.
The crypto industry is constantly trying to sell us something new. This election season, it’s the…
Reward offered for anyone who spots singing robot disguised as Pumpkin
Starship Robots’ Seasonal Robots are Now Roaming US Campuses and UK cities SAN FRANCISCO (October 31,…
Rixxo Review: Improve your B2B eCommerce game
The world of eCommerce is vast. Being an expert and capable of doing everything at once…
The Best BigCommerce Apps for Financing
Today, the most popular tools for ecommerce firms are extensions and applications from third parties. Their…
How tech is helping us talk to animals
The world around us is vibrating with sounds we cannot hear. Bats chitter and babble in…
Elon Musk doesn’t know what it takes to make a digital town square
This, though, is just one possibility in the era of Musk, which is just beginning. Now…
How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account)
Enlarge / Whatever happens, it’s nice to know your data options. Benj Edwards reader comments 197…
The Download: the human toll of ethical AI, and lab-grown meat
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1…
Elon Musk owns Twitter. Now what?
After more than six months of one of the most chaotic, high-profile business negotiations in recent…
Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
Enlarge / An Open Connect Appliance server from around 2013 that a Redditor acquired. reader comments…
The Download: the mortality issue, and America’s new favorite shopping app
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1…
Ben Smith’s Semafor is live. He says it will take 10 years to get it right.
Ben Smith generates attention anywhere he goes. See: Politico, BuzzFeed, and the New York Times, where…