If there’s one theme emerging this year in Washington, D.C., it’s the full-on bipartisan rampage against American tech firms. In a courthouse just blocks away from the Capitol, Google is defending its search engine against the Justice Department, while down…
How often do you question the world around you and think, “I’ll just Google it?” For most Americans, the answer is “most of the time.” That’s because Google is responsible for processing about 90 percent of all internet search queries…
There is a great divide between what electric vehicle (EV) advocates wish their preferred method of movement could do and what it can currently accomplish. While EVs may someday surpass their gasoline and diesel counterparts — and they already do…
Nine fingers? Weird shadows? Too many teeth? Artificial intelligence currently struggles with some fairly mundane details when it comes to generating images, but there’s no doubt it’s rapidly improving. Like it or not, it’s inevitable that AI will eventually discover…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction, which predicted it all. Where and when the genre began is debatable: among the ancestors of today’s science fiction are…
Forget about artificial intelligence. The next big development in the tech industry is not chatbots that can respond to you as though they’re human — it’s computers that solve complex problems the way the universe does: with quantum physics. On…
I got an idea of how much Americans still struggle with understanding generative artificial intelligence (chatbots or image generators) when I posted five photos of bikini-clad women on my Facebook page, made it very clear that they were indeed AI,…
Elon Musk’s announcement that he would be rebranding Twitter came as a surprise to pundits, who hastened to denounce the change. BBC reported that users felt “shock[ed]” at the shift, and tech reporter Casey Newton called the move an “extended…
While open-source artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, the military has explored using more advanced AI versions for years, from gathering intelligence, acquiring targets, streamlining decision-making, and analyzing data. Of course, we’re not the only ones interested in using…
