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I met Gabriel Metcalf, the urban planner hired to design a new California city backed by tech billionaires, while we were mincing garlic and herbs at Burning Man. The New York Times had just blown open the mystery of who was secretly buying up more than 50,000 acres of farmland in Solano county, about 50 … Read more

Cutting, copying, and pasting are actions that are regularly performed in apps and between apps: getting an address from a message into a map, moving an image from an email to a document, or just transferring text from one end of a note to another. But while I’ve known how to cut, copy, and paste … Read more

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Elon Musk visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau World War II Nazi German death camp on Monday, after the billionaire faced criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory and allowing hate messages on his social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The private visit was apparently in response to … Read more

When I was invited by Ford to visit its headquarters in Dearborn, Mich, last week and check out its new in-car operating system, I thought I knew what to expect.  It was going to be built on the Android Automotive operating system, so there would be native versions of Maps, Assistant, and other popular Google … Read more

OpenAI has removed the account of the developer behind an artificial intelligence-powered bot impersonating the US presidential candidate Dean Phillips, saying it violated company policy. Phillips, who is challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic party candidacy, was impersonated by a ChatGPT-powered bot on the dean.bot site. The bot was backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt … Read more

EU users will be able to unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services ahead of the bloc’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) coming into force in March, the company has announced. The changes will apply in the European Union, European Economic Area, and Switzerland, and notifications informing users of the … Read more

Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? A new group of folding devices are competing to appeal to consumers who want the best of both worlds, offering a phone-like screen on the outside and a large display on the inside that opens out like a book. Each is superior at different parts of the … Read more

Alex, I read a headline saying Russian Cops Forced to Investigate YouTube’s Famous ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Series. As a series of words, what does that mean? Brrr Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes, Steph. Skibidi dobidi dib dib. I think that pretty much explains itself. Thanks, I hate it. But it has 135m views (!) and … Read more

(WJW) — While your smartphone might be essential, it could be consuming a lot of your time, especially if you’re constantly checking apps, texts and emails. If you’re willing to ditch your device for a bit, you could win a sweet prize. The New York-based company Siggi’s Dairy, known for its Icelandic-style yogurt, is offering … Read more

(NewsNation) — U.S.-based artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI has banned the creator of a bot that mimics Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., The Washington Post reports. The 2024 election season is in full swing with the GOP’s New Hampshire primary just days away — the banning of Dean.Bot is one of the first … Read more