Hearing loss can happen at any age—including birth—but it’s most common among older adults. Data shows that about a third of people 65 and older have age-related hearing loss, jumping to 50 percent after age 75. For these individuals, a hearing aid can significantly enhance their quality of life, allowing them to fully engage in social… Continue reading The Best Hearing Aids for Seniors (2024)
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Tesla’s Cheaper Long-Range Model 3 Is Back
Sadly, Ford stopped making the Capri in 1986. Society moved on, and the people of that era grew up, voted for Reagan, and went gray. But once again, there is a new Ford Capri in the world. The Capri has been miraculously resuscitated in EV form. Aside from the name, the 2024 Capri bears little… Continue reading Tesla’s Cheaper Long-Range Model 3 Is Back
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their time in the limelight isn’t over yet. On Friday, telecom giant AT&T announced that it recently suffered a data breach impacting call and text messaging records of “nearly all” its customers. The company is in… Continue reading The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
The Kamala Harris Conspiracies Are Here
Leah Feiger: Well, yeah, no, in your reporting, you shared posts of people calling her the DEI candidate. That’s what’s going around, and it’s not just Trump in the public sphere sharing this. These were conspiracies that were being repeated on Fox and all over the place. David Gilbert: After those fringe platforms, we saw… Continue reading The Kamala Harris Conspiracies Are Here
Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, Google DeepMind revealed today. The robot uses the latest version of Google’s Gemini large language model to both parse commands and find its way… Continue reading Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
When Tigran Gambaryan was first invited in February to meet with the Nigerian government in order to settle a dispute with his employer, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Nigerian officials detained him against his will, stripped him of his passport, and told him he was a “guest” of the state. He’s since been charged with financial… Continue reading Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta
Williams in her note explained that “‘Prayers for …’ any location where there is a war in process might be taken down, but prayers for those impacted by a natural disaster, for example, might stay up.” She continued, “We know people may not agree with this approach, but it’s one of the trade-offs we made… Continue reading How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and Ukrainian officials raided his Donetsk apartment in 2010, the place was deserted and Penchukov had vanished. But the criminal spree came to a juddering halt at the end of 2022, when he traveled… Continue reading Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion
This week, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of the health company Thrive Global, published an article in Time touting Thrive AI, a startup backed by Thrive and OpenAI’s Startup Fund. The piece suggests that AI could have a huge positive impact on public health by talking people into healthier… Continue reading OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer
A second person will soon receive Neuralink’s experimental brain implant, according to Elon Musk, the company’s cofounder. In a video update on Wednesday, Musk said the surgery is planned to take place in “the next week or so.” The company is making changes to the surgical procedure and placement of the device to avoid problems… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer