A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: “homework help.” Soon, Google’s artificial intelligence has read the question on-screen and suggests “choice B” as the answer. The temptation to cheat was suddenly just two clicks away Sept. 2, when Google quietly added a “homework Read more…
When Meta finally unveiled its newest smart glasses, CEO Mark Zuckerberg “drew more snickers than applause,” Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth later explained the funny reason their demo didn’t work, while answering questions on Instagram: “When the chef said, ‘Hey, Meta, start Live AI,’ it started every single Ray-Ban Read more…
A July combat training exercise involved a satellite dish-style antenna that “could fire enough electromagnetic energy to fry the satellite 22,000 miles away,” reports the Washington Post. But “Instead, the salvo would be more covert — millisecond pulses of energy that would subtly disrupt the satellite’s signals, which U.S. military Read more…
A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting in April that it had “no plans” to do so. Samsung is calling it a pilot program Read more…
Key takeaways from a new survey by Pew Research: 1. Americans are much more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, with a majority saying they want more control over how AI is used in their lives. 2. Far larger shares say AI will erode Read more…
Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste for alcohol from common primate ancestors who relied on fermented fruit — a source of sugar Read more…
On the outskirts of this city of 21 million, a showroom in a shopping mall offers extraordinary deals on new cars. Visitors can choose from some 5,000 vehicles. Locally made Audis are 50% off. A seven-seater SUV from China’s FAW is about $22,300, more than 60% below its sticker price. Read more…