Decades ago, Steve Perlman’s technology helped kick-start an era in which figments of Hollywood imagination feel increasingly authentic. Now, Mark Zuckerberg and other technologists are dreaming of a future in which we spend more of our time in immersive digital…
The head of BuzzFeed News and two other top editors are departing the company ahead of cuts to the newsroom. Mark Schoofs, who became the editor in chief in 2020, said in an email on Tuesday to staff members that…
First came the rhinestone-encrusted rotary. Then the cherry-red lips. After that, the cheeseburger. By last summer, Chanell Karr had amassed a collection of six landline phones. Her most recent, an orange Trimline originally made as a promotional item for the…
One such tool is IVOW’s Indigenous Knowledge Graph, or IKG, a cultural engine in early development that is focused on storytelling about Indigenous recipes and culinary practices. After meeting the IVOW team in 2018, Mr. Yarlott pitched the IKG, a…
Along a dirt-covered road deep in Texas farm country, the cryptocurrency company Argo Blockchain is building a power plant for the internet age: a crypto “mining” site stocked with computers that generate new Bitcoins. But unlike other Bitcoin mining operations,…
Probing further, the researchers tried to replicate the performance of humans and baboons with artificial intelligence, using neural-network models that are inspired by basic mathematical ideas of what a neuron does and how neurons are connected. These models — statistical…
President Biden warned on Monday that Russia is exploring the possibility of waging potential cyberattacks against the United States in retaliation for economic penalties imposed on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine. In a statement issued days before he is…
OneWeb, a British satellite internet company that canceled rocket launches with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, is turning to SpaceX to send broadband satellites into space. The alliance, announced on Monday by OneWeb, is unusual because SpaceX is currently…
OneWeb, a British satellite internet company that canceled rocket launches with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, is turning to SpaceX to send broadband satellites into space. The alliance, announced on Monday by OneWeb, is unusual because SpaceX is currently…
Google has agreed to settle a National Labor Relations Board case filed by six former and current employees who said the company had illegally fired or disciplined them because of their unionization efforts. As part of the settlement, which was…