Enlarge / The Akuvox E11 (credit: Akuvox) The Akuvox E11 is billed as a video door phone, but it’s actually much more than that. The network-connected device opens building doors, provides live video and microphone feeds, takes a picture and uploads it each time someone walks by, and logs each entry and exit in real...
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F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter’s Privacy Practices
The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.
The Perils of Working on a C.E.O.’s Pet Project
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs.
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy
The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, A.I. could be a boon.
New Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovered by Scientists
The breakthrough could one day transform technologies that use electric energy, but it comes from a team facing doubts after a retracted paper on superconductors.
Elon Musk Sees Twitter Financial Recovery and Apologizes to Disabled Ex-Employee
On a day Mr. Musk said the company was recovering from a sharp drop in ad sales, he found himself apologizing to a former employee with a disability he had disparaged.
Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica) Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. It is available for free today as a wide beta test for...
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a demonstration video. (credit: Google Research) On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrates vision and language for robotic...
Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free, no Office or Microsoft 365 required [Updated]
Enlarge / The current Outlook for Mac email client. (credit: Microsoft) Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the “ground up” redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook will continue to be a “native Mac app,” and not a “Progressive Web App (PWA)” like the one the company is testing in Windows....
How Some Gen Z Instagram Users Post to Facebook: Unwittingly
Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.