Baltimore principal’s racist rant was an AI fake. His colleague was arrested.The case raises fresh concerns about easily accessible AI tools that can allow users, with only a few seconds of real audio footage, to create believable clones of people.
What is TikTok Lite and why is the EU concerned about it?TikTok is officially under investigation by the EU and that means everything that goes with it, including the company's spinoff app, TikTok Lite.
How Gmail Became Our DiaryDigging through 20 years of our archived mistakes. Twenty years ago this month, Google launched Gmail. At first, user numbers were deliberately kept low, and those with access would hoard invitations and bestow them on friends like precious gifts.
Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective“Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on the couch with her MacBook Air, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch.
The Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931)Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation.
How to improve the quality of the audio in your streaming appsWhen you load your music streaming app of choice onto your mobile device, your audio quality settings are worth taking a minute or two to configure. If you don’t have these set to as high a quality as possible, you’re missing out on the best audio experience your streaming apps can offer.
Can the First Amendment Save TikTok?On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a law that could effectively ban TikTok if the company does not divest from ByteDance, its Chinese owner, in the next 12 months.
Blink to Generate Power For Smart Contact LensesThe potential use cases for smart contacts are compelling and varied. Pop a lens on your eye and monitor health metrics like glucose levels; receive targeted drug delivery for ocular diseases; experience augmented reality and read news updates with displays of information literally in your face.
The AI That Could Heal a Divided InternetIn the 1990s and early 2000s, technologists made the world a grand promise: new communications technologies would strengthen democracy, undermine authoritarianism, and lead to a new era of human flourishing. But today, few people would agree that the internet has lived up to that lofty goal.
How to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile Using AIKey Takeaways Improve your LinkedIn profile with AI-generated summaries and paragraphs using tools like ChatGPT. Utilize LinkedIn Premium to enhance your profile with AI features like improved summaries and headlines.
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data LeakMore than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthcare finally confirmed what cybercriminals, security researchers, and Bitcoin's blockchain had already made all too clear: that it did indeed
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old ProblemMathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. Introduction The change of plans came on a road trip.
Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t ImpressedWith the long-hyped Humane AI Pin finally hitting the streets Thursday, those gripping their hands until their knuckles turn white in anticipation since its debut last November might want to hold off for a bit before dropping $699 (plus a $24-a-month subscription) on the small, wearable chatbot.
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existedMaria grew up in Barcelona, Spain, in the 1940s. Her first memories of her father are vivid. As a six-year-old, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building when she wanted to see him.
How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI CopyrightThe message was from Elisa Shupe, a 60-year-old retired US Army veteran who had just filed a copyright registration for a novel she’d recently self-published. She’d used OpenAI's ChatGPT extensively while writing the book.