TECHNOLOGYSamsung Galaxy Watch9 struggles with metric overload, not capabilitySamsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.Wired·6d ago
TECHNOLOGYSmall body rings shift faster than theory predictedRings around a tiny body have changed over the past decadeArs Technica·6d ago
TECHNOLOGYHow birdwatching became a tech industry obsessionWhether they’re into feeders, field guides, or games, these tried-and-tested picks are sure to land perfectly.Wired·6d ago
TECHNOLOGYTruecaller’s India problem shows the limits of data moats in regulated marketsTruecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.TechCrunch·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYAI press tour derails when virtual persona switches to Chinese mid-interviewIn one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.TechCrunch·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYVenture studio Vantora bets industrial AI needs external buildersUP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.TechCrunch·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYAnthropic’s biology lab tests the limits of its safety rhetoricAI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.TechCrunch·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYInternal docs show OpenAI and Microsoft foresaw AI’s harm to web publishersRecently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor iThe Verge·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYAI hallucination nearly triggered US military strike on ChinaAI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attackArs Technica·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYFAA’s $875 million bet on AI to untangle aviation’s bottleneck problemFAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestionArs Technica·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYSpanberger’s Virginia data center order signals shift from growth-at-any-cost eraVirginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch oThe Verge·1w ago
TECHNOLOGYDisney’s new CTO signals AI is now a boardroom priorityYou would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will repoThe Verge·1w ago
