Louisiana lawmakers have passed a bill that would prohibit minors from creating their own social media accounts without parental consent, potentially impacting popular platforms like Instagram and online games such as Roblox and Fortnite. The bill, HB61, would ban “interactive computer services” from allowing people under 18 to sign up Read more…
GM has confirmed that it will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its future electric vehicles, following in the footsteps of Ford. This is likely the next step in a domino effect that should solidify NACS as the new charging standard for electric cars in North America. When Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem fazed by Apple’s introduction of the Vision Pro. In a companywide meeting with Meta employees today that The Verge watched, the CEO said Apple’s device didn’t present any major breakthroughs in technology that Meta hadn’t “already explored” Read more…
According to a joint investigation from The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Instagram’s algorithms are actively promoting networks of pedophiles who commission and sell child sexual abuse content on the app. Accounts found by the researchers are advertised using blatant and Read more…
US healthcare chain Carbon Health has implemented an AI tool named Carby, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, to automatically generate medical records from conversations between physicians and patients. If a patient consents to having their meeting recorded and transcribed, the audio recording is passed to Amazon’s AWS Transcribe Medical Read more…
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world. “It’s the first Apple product you look through, and not at,” CEO Tim Cook said of the device, which looks like a pair of ski goggles. From a report: As rumored, Read more…
When whistleblower Frances Haugen pulled back the curtain on Facebook in the fall of 2021, thousands of pages of internal documents showed troubling signs that the social media giant knew its platforms could be negatively impacting youth, and were doing little to effectively change it. With around 21 million American Read more…