All images, courtesy of Amazon. 2023 has been a wild year in the tech world. E3’s organizers have decided to shut their doors, or they didn’t. The Class of 2023 is graduating with ChatGPT who’s also preaching the gospel. And Amazon is ushering in a new future where people and robots will work alongside each...
Very few things are better than a good brassiere. A good bra is supportive. Stands the test of time. And is good looking. After announcing a concept started 4 years ago, the US Army’s Tactical Brassiere (ATB) is nearing combat readiness. Patricia Marx’s profile of the ATB showcases the US Army’s commitment to the female...
Said Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist. Yann LeCun is considered one of the godfathers of AI along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. LeCun recently spoke with the BBC at a Meta press junket in Paris. I also think AI won’t destroy jobs forever and will spur the creation of new and different kinds...
There’s being thrifty, and then there’s being cheap. As news unfolded regarding the tragic loss of an OceanGate Expeditions tourist sub, Titan, one of the more interesting tidbits is what’s used to steer the submarine. The submersible didn’t meet many safety regulations and one of those regulations included steering controls. The OceanGate submersible used a...
“We puttin’ our faith in ChatGPT when we should be putting our faith in G.O.D!” – Said a Non-Churchy Church Lady 300 people attended a ChatGPT programmed and led service at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Germany. The service featured a 40-minute sermon generated by ChatGPT and AI-generated avatars. Rev. GPT started the service as...
Excuses are monuments to nothing, and build bridges to nowhere. Those who use these tools of incompetence are fools, fools, fools, and masters of nothing. Excuses. Comcast whined to the FCC last week about it being too hard to list its broadband fees to customers. They can keep raising fees and charging for hidden things,...
The Federal Trade Commission moved to block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision. The deal would have been worthing a record breaking $69 billion. The FTC blocked the merger after the UK opposed the deal, and the EU approving it. The FTC said the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the video game industry....
That’s meta verse with two words. As promised, Apple showcased the Vision Pro AR/VR headset at this week’s Worldwide Developer Conference. It’s everything we expected in a newly released Apple product. The Vision Pro headset is priced at $3,499. It’s not priced, nor designed for regular human consumption. The headset is specifically designed for software...
It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Yesterday, Yintao Yu, a former ByteDance executive, alleged the company gave Chinese Communist Party members access to Hong Kong activists’ TikTok data. The allegations were part of a US court filing. The filing reports users who uploaded “protest-related content” were identified and monitored. According to Mr. Yu, ByteDance/TikTok...
Sextortion isn’t a new phenomenon. For decades, criminals have threatened people (mostly women) with exposure over sexual compromising or explicit photos of themselves online. Sextortion could involves payments in money or more photos of the victim. Sometimes, the images possessed by these criminals are real, other times they could be fake when the mere threat...