Renting a printer month-by-month might seem silly to older generations who grew up with one in the house, but that was before the digital renaissance — which saw everything from books to boarding passes go digital. Printing isn’t as much of a necessity as it used to be, so it’s possible (sometimes preferable) for many […]
These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
Enlarge / Testing replica Stone Age tools with a bit of wood-scraping. A. Iwase et al., 2024/Tokyo Metropolitan University When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and chisels and […]
Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
Each method is weaponized—almost always against women—to degrade, harass, or cause shame, among other harms. Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s e-safety commissioner, says her office is starting to see more deepfakes reported to its image-based abuse complaints scheme, alongside other AI-generated content, such as “synthetic” child sexual abuse and children using apps to create sexualized videos […]
Should you be scared of Apple Journal?
Apple’s new Journal feature is all about capturing those little moments in life right on your iPhone. But posts started blowing up on social media that (oh no!) because of it, anyone can find your full name and location. Yikes. Is all the fearmongering worth our worry? Or is it just another tech urban legend? […]
Oscars 2024: From Poor Things to Ryan Gosling to Jimmy Kimmel, the Academy Awards were a hit
2023 was the year movies were finally back — and the 96th Academy Awards reflected what a good time at the cinema we all had. Not only was this year’s crop of Best Picture nominees one of the best we’ve had in eons, the often self-serious award show’s ceremony was warm-hearted, hilarious, and enjoyable enough […]
4K Blu-ray is getting a little too expensive
OPINION: Despite all the doom and gloom about physical media in recent months, it continues to walk – perhaps a little unsteady, but it’s still one foot in front of the other. Streaming is where the majority of consumers have moved to, and from a convenience perspective, it’s a move that I can understand. However, […]
AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, research finds
The large-language-models (LLMs) behind AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, even when being asked questions in other languages, new research shows. To investigate this phenomenon, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne looked at three versions of these AI chatbot models: opening them up to see the various “layers” that make up these […]
IT’s Waste Management Job With Software Applications
Getting the most out of each IT investment matters. Consequently, items such as cloud waste, data waste, and storage waste have all been recent focal points, but what is your organization doing about the optimization and ROI of applications and systems, particularly in a SaaS era? Not much attention has been devoted to it. Instead, […]
Win an HP Sprocket Photo Printer and Print On-the-Go!
Taking photos is as easy as a click; printing them has become a forgotten hassle. It’s 2024, and we’re still fumbling with cables, navigating complicated printing software, and waiting endlessly for photo labs. But not anymore! We’re about to change your world with our latest giveaway. We’re giving away TWO HP Sprocket 3×4 Photo Printers […]
AIs may be better at prompt optimization than humans
With prompt engineers among the workers most in demand in the wake of generative AI’s arrival in the enterprise, it was inevitable that someone would investigate whether their role, too, could be automated, or at least facilitated, by AI. And, indeed, a recent study focused on how to write the best prompts for a large-language […]