If you heard rumblings this week that Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing in the United States and other markets, you heard wrong—but only for now. The company told WIRED that while it plans to make an announcement in the next few weeks about limiting account sharing, nothing has happened yet. Meanwhile, lawmakers… Continue reading Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now
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China’s XPeng G9 Could Be the Best Electric SUV Around
US investors looking to build an EV portfolio are not exactly spoilt for choice. Aside from Tesla, many companies haven’t produced cars, or if they have, they’re in such small numbers it’s difficult to know their true potential. Interestingly, however, if you want to narrow your selection to companies that produce more than 100,000 cars… Continue reading China’s XPeng G9 Could Be the Best Electric SUV Around
The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
On Friday, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken said he was canceling a high-profile diplomatic visit to Beijing following the discovery of a large, high-altitude Chinese balloon that has been drifting over the US this week. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday that the airship is an off-course… Continue reading The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
After Netflix Spent years piloting different ways to crack down on password sharing, changes to its United States Help Center page this week seemed to indicate that the streaming giant had finally settled on a plan. But those tweaks quickly disappeared, leaving confusion and concern about potential changes to Netflix’s account-sharing policies. Now the company… Continue reading Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias
Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color. Proponents argue that AI-powered generators can rectify the diversity gaps in existing image databases by supplementing them with synthetic images. Some researchers are using… Continue reading Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias
Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
The tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science. Previously, people who had seen strange lights darting around the sky could do no more than tell their friends—or call intelligence agencies. Soon, anyone with a smartphone will be able to use an app to report an unexplainable event as it happens.… Continue reading Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
An AI Filter Revealed My Secret Self
I shrug and put the phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.” After a pause, she demands, “Let me see that again.” The second time around, her eyes travel across the screen, taking time to study the image. She notes my angular brows. The sheen of silver on my breastplate. The slight raise of… Continue reading An AI Filter Revealed My Secret Self
Raycon Everyday Earbuds (E25) Review: Not Just for YouTubers
I watch a lot of YouTube. Whether I’m nerding out on my hobbies, or wasting time watching people build tunnels under their houses, the Google-owned video service is streaming somewhere at all hours. If you’ve spent any amount of time on YouTube in the past, you’re probably aware of Raycon’s Everyday Earbuds, which have been… Continue reading Raycon Everyday Earbuds (E25) Review: Not Just for YouTubers
ChatGPT Is Making Universities Rethink Plagiarism
Although Daily acknowledges that this technological growth incites new concerns in the world of academia, she doesn’t find it to be a realm entirely unexplored. “I think we’ve been in a version of this territory for a while already,” Daily says. “Students who commit plagiarism often borrow material from a ‘somewhere’—a website, for example, that… Continue reading ChatGPT Is Making Universities Rethink Plagiarism
The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack
It was a Sunday morning in mid-October 2020 when Rob Miller first heard there was a problem. The databases and IT systems at Hackney Council, in East London, were suffering from outages. At the time, the UK was heading into its second deadly wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with millions living under lockdown restrictions and… Continue reading The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack