Home automation is fast becoming the norm for all the convenience it provides—and smart lighting is now no exception. Connect a smart light to an available power source, typically a wall outlet or light socket, and then to a mobile app to control it from just about any location with your phone. Smart lights can… Continue reading The Best Smart Lights of 2023
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New SUV Features Electrified Door Handles and Pepper Spray Guns
“Please, please tell me this is a bit.” Battle Tank California carmaker Rezvani has come up with a genuinely apocalyptic military-grade SUV that can pepper spray, electrify, and blind passersby. The Batmobile-like monstrosity, dubbed the Rezvani Vengeance, is a heavily modified Cadillac Escalade SUV that’s decked out with a preposterous number of military features that only… Continue reading New SUV Features Electrified Door Handles and Pepper Spray Guns
Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail
“…it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom.” Big Twist It looks like AI startup DoNotPay’s “robot lawyer” — specifically, an AI-powered earpiece designed to coach defendants through court hearings about things like parking tickets and bill negotiations —… Continue reading Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail
Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT
It might already be too late. Leaky Faucet After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorithm. According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told… Continue reading Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT
The Metaverse Industry Is Already Going Belly-Up, for Reasons We Can’t Imagine
Surely no one could have seen this coming. Metahearse A spate of layoffs and closures in the burgeoning Metaverse Industrial Complex is proving what many critics have said all along — that over-investment was never going to be enough to breathe life into the hype-poisoned space. As Insider reports, recent virtual reality-related layoffs and division closures… Continue reading The Metaverse Industry Is Already Going Belly-Up, for Reasons We Can’t Imagine
CNET Editor-in-Chief Addresses AI Journalists Errors and Plagiarism
This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site’s lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles about personal finance topics on its site. It appears to be the first time that anyone in the site’s leadership has addressed issues of rampant factual errors and apparent plagiarism in the AI’s published work, both first… Continue reading CNET Editor-in-Chief Addresses AI Journalists Errors and Plagiarism
Guy “Outsources” His Own Memory to AI
To cope with the very real challenges that humans face when trying to remember everything that we read online, tech journalist Shubham Agarwal decided to “outsource” his memory to assistive AI. “Often during the day, I end up Googling articles I read just a few hours ago because I can’t recall more than a few… Continue reading Guy “Outsources” His Own Memory to AI
The Best Mini Instant Pots of 2023
Instant Pot appliances have gained a cult following over the years and it’s easy to see why. These smart, multi-use kitchen gadgets are designed to do the work of multiple other devices, including slow cookers, rice cookers, and steaming pots. And while some Instant Pot models can be big, bulky, and hard to store or… Continue reading The Best Mini Instant Pots of 2023
Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”
Shots fired. No Pulled Punches As the fallout from tech news stalwart CNET‘s disastrous experiment with AI-generated SEO-bait articles — which, as we recently reported, weren’t just shrouded in secrecy and chock full of errors, but also seem to have been riddled with substantial instances of plagiarism — continues, a major publishing rival to CNET owner… Continue reading Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”
Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software
These aren’t for the faint of heart. Mamma Mia! If you’re looking to bypass the Madison Square Garden enemy list, do we have a brand for you. An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of absolutely outlandish knits, all designed with the goal of fooling facial recognition software — no mask or face painting… Continue reading Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software