“Joan Is Awful,” the first episode of the new season of Black Mirror, was inspired by The Dropout. Specifically, as creator Charlie Brooker told WIRED this week, it was sparked by seeing the deluge of content surrounding Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal—a book, a TV show, a movie, around 800 podcasts—and thinking about how… Continue reading The ‘Joan Is Awful’ Episode of ‘Black Mirror’ Asks You to Please Click Here
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Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently said that China should play a key role in shaping the guardrails that are placed around the technology. “China has some of the best AI talent in the world,” Altman said during a talk at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) last week. “Solving alignment for advanced AI systems requires some… Continue reading Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
OnePlus Nord N30 5G Review: A Fine Android Phone
The primary camera struggles with high-contrast scenes, so the sky is often blown out in the background, though it can still take some decent photos in even lighting. When the sun gets low, you can use the Night mode to take better low-light images, but the colors are off and things still end up a… Continue reading OnePlus Nord N30 5G Review: A Fine Android Phone
Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep
The researchers called this type of stimulation “synced.” They also tested another form of stimulation, called “mixed-phase,” where the electrode delivered pulses into the frontal lobe without regard to activity in the hippocampus. To see if these types of stimulation would affect memory, the scientists used a test in which the patients were introduced to… Continue reading Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep
Google’s New AI Tool Is About to Make Online Shopping Even Easier
It matched photos of of the models wearing shirts in two different poses and generated images of that shirt from other angles. Then it took images of the clothing from the merchant and fused them with images of Google’s model via generative diffusion models to produce multiple, diverse images of the clothing. The result? A wide… Continue reading Google’s New AI Tool Is About to Make Online Shopping Even Easier
Frances Haugen Says We Need a ‘Free Mark’ Movement
You believe those laws will come? Will we get the laws we need in the next two years? Very unlikely. But I think we’ll get the laws we need in the next five to 10 years. Meanwhile, Meta has refocused on the metaverse and generative AI. I worry about the rise of those. Do not… Continue reading Frances Haugen Says We Need a ‘Free Mark’ Movement
Want to Understand Canada’s Wildfire Crisis? Read This Book
The day John Vaillant’s new book about Canadian wildfires, Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World, came out in the US, Canadian wildfires became a temporary American obsession. Skies in the northeastern United States turned orange, hazy, and hazardous as the result of more than 400 infernos in Canada’s vast boreal forests in early June. New… Continue reading Want to Understand Canada’s Wildfire Crisis? Read This Book
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago. The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans’… Continue reading The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
On the evening of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based news portal The Fourth reported that a Telegram bot in a channel called “hak4learn” was offering access to the private data of millions of Indians. All a user had to do was put in a phone number or Aadhaar (India’s national ID) number, and it… Continue reading A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale Is Happening Right Now: Deals on Pots and Pans
There are two things in every kitchen that qualify as heirlooms: cast-iron pans and All-Clad pots and pans. Okay, if you’re super fancy, copper pans make nice heirlooms too. But for most of us, there’s the great grandparents’ cast-iron skillet and the All-Clad pan someone gifted us long ago. All-Clad makes some of the best,… Continue reading All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale Is Happening Right Now: Deals on Pots and Pans