Month: November 2022

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings likes Elon Musk, video games, and binge watching Netflix doesn’t want to sell itself to Microsoft. It does want to get really deep into the games business. Elon…

While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor ChatGPT appears to address some of these problems, but it is far from a full fix—as I found when I got…

Here’s my guess: Neuralink will unveil a vision implant at today’s “show and tell” Recently, a group in Spain, using an implant called the Utah array, which has 96 electrodes, found that…

Companies are cutting Zoom accounts and office space instead of jobs In the last three months, Dumbo Moving downsized about 200 offices into storage and about another 100 into smaller office space….

Twitter’s toxicity, and what China’s protestors want By Scott Wiener, a California state senator who represents San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. A mere day after Elon Musk reactivated Rep. Marjorie…

How chemists are tackling the plastics problem Rorrer says the researchers are also considering what materials they should use. Cobalt is more common and less expensive than some other catalysts they’ve tried,…

What Shanghai protesters want and fear You may have seen that nearly three years after the pandemic started, protests have erupted across the country. In Beijing, Shanghai, Urumqi, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, and…

Elon Musk has created a toxic mess for the LGBTQ+ community. I would know. Musk is now promising—based on a Twitter “poll” that was reportedly mobbed with extremist 4chan users—to reactivate any…

Human creators stand to benefit as AI rewrites the rules of content creation A game-changer for content creation Among the AI-related technologies to have emerged in the past several years is generative…

the West’s AI myth, and Musk v Apple While the US and the EU may differ on how to regulate tech, their lawmakers seem to agree on one thing: the West needs…