There are a few potential opportunities to protect influencers, which in turn will help us all resist the constant commercialization and misinformation in our feeds. Prioritizing fair pay and industry transparency will help incentivize influencers to share better products and information. But even to begin with, government agencies, legislators, and company executives must understand that...

M2: Despite its name, the M2 is considered an entry-level chip with slightly more processing power than the original M1. It features an 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU (two more GPU cores than its predecessor) and supports up to 24GB of combined memory. Apple says the second-generation chip has an 18 percent faster...

United States The government is notorious for its “better late than never” approach to deploying its technology. Following this tradition, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today confirmed that, after 16 years, it has finally implemented the necessary software updates to verify the cryptographic signatures stored in passport RFID chips. Since 2006, the United States...

Unfortunately, it took more than two months for Eufy’s parent company, Anker, to acknowledge some guilt and apology. Early denials drew more media attention as the company attempted to downplay Eufy’s security flaws while damaging its hard-won reputation. Multiple incidents and the fact that Yufi was caught lying and forced to back down make it...

Scientists have good estimates of where the receding ground line is, thanks to satellites tracking tiny changes in ice height. But they didn’t have a good picture of what a glacier’s stomach looks like on the ground line because it’s under thousands of feet of ice. “These data are really interesting because we are looking...

two years ago, Twitter has launched what is arguably the tech industry’s most ambitious attempt at algorithm transparency. Its researchers wrote papers showing that Twitter’s artificial intelligence system for cropping images in tweets favored white faces and women, and that messages from the political right in several countries, including the US, UK and France, received...

Musk also restricted the use of his Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine and made statements that were interpreted as support for Russian claims to Ukrainian territory. Musk’s other company, Tesla, relies on China as a market, as a manufacturing center, and as a source of raw materials. anxiety that he could be pressured to...

In 2017 Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to a phenomenon that The Handmaid’s Tale. While this morbidly prophetic adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel remains one of the best TV shows to watch on Hulu, it also set the...

“This is kind of a pivotal event for the spread of conspiracy theories and various anti-government and anti-media sentiment,” says Megan Conroy, an American fellow at the Atlantic Council, a foreign affairs think tank who has monitored social media coverage. crash. “There is a lack of clarity about what is happening on the ground in...

Black curtains hang in the windows of a modest apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles, two blocks from the Pacific Ocean, blocking out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon, about thirty, clumsy, with a Zappa mustache, scribbles on reams of graph paper. The scene is spartan: a cot, a few books, a jumbled pile of...