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I found cheap accessories that made my AirTags twice as useful (and secure)

Elevation Labs accessories ZDNET’s key takeaways These are tough, water- and dirt-resistant AirTag holders that will last years. They go a long way to preventing bad guys from removing your AirTags from secured items. They work on everything from suitcases, camera bags, jackets, and even your cat or dog! I’ve mentioned more than once my… Continue reading I found cheap accessories that made my AirTags twice as useful (and secure)

If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk is famously prolific as a father: at last count, the man has sired 14 known children — though there may be far more in the shadows — while frequently expressing deep concern about the world’s falling birthrate. So why is it that he’s been rolling out a slate of AI “companions” via… Continue reading If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

Braving the dance floor in broad daylight — or even just when the overhead lights are on — frequently does not end well. Your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will likely be captured by someone with their phone out, who will then quickly deliver the footage to potentially millions of eyeballs online.… Continue reading Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Would you work 72 hour weeks? All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as “996” — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which… Continue reading AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

ChatGPT isn’t very good at knowing when to keep its mouth shut. That makes for a deadly combination with what it is very good at, which is being able to conjure up a response to pretty much anything you throw at it, having been trained on the entire corpus of human writing on the internet.… Continue reading ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

Honda takes a page from Tesla playbook, launches new insurance business

Say what you will about Elon Musk, but Tesla has changed the way that millions of people buy cars and, by extension, car insurance. Now, Honda is taking a page from Tesla’s successful playbook and launching its own in-house insurance business. Enter: Honda Insurance Solutions. Honda Insurance Solutions is being launched as a fully licensed insurance… Continue reading Honda takes a page from Tesla playbook, launches new insurance business

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

Akin to a rapacious maw, the AI boom has swallowed up untold amounts of water, energy, and jobs lost to automation. Now add the rapidly dwindling housing stock in the Bay Area as even more tech workers crowd in, lured by the possibility of enriching themselves in this massive AI gold rush, according to reporting… Continue reading The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

Image by Getty / Futurism One person’s junk is another’s treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of “junk” DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are actually pretty important after all. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Advances, focuses… Continue reading Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil

Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports. Worse still, these “hidden signals” appear completely meaningless to humans — and we’re not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing… Continue reading AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil