Limitless variety Fashion items, skin colors, body shapes, hairstyles and other digital identity choices on today’s immersive platforms are already enabling millions of people to be who they want to be in these environments. 2023 will be a breakthrough year for people who have fully realized themselves in the digital space, as more and more...
In August Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was one of hundreds of targets in a massive criminal phishing campaign that hacked numerous technology companies. While some Cloudflare employees have been deceived by phishing messages, attackers couldn’t dig deeper into company systems. This is because as part of Cloudflare’s security measures, each employee must use a physical...
The lockdown and the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the sudden drop in the price of powerful PC graphics cards this year, have led to an unexpected resurgence in PC gaming. The argument against PC gaming often boils down to this: it’s cheaper and easier to deal with a gaming console...
In 2023 emotional AI, a technology that can perceive and interact with human emotions, will become one of the dominant applications of machine learning. For example, Hume AI, founded by Alan Cowan, a former Google employee, is developing tools to measure emotions through verbal, facial expressions, and vocal expressions. Swedish company Smart Eyes recently acquired...
Blockbusters are back baby! Between an early return to Avatar: Path of Water and $1.5 billion Top Shooter: Maverick brought globally, everything old is new again (again) in Hollywood. This could be very good for studios in the coming year, which promises some very long-awaited sequels, hot Willy Wonka, superheroes galore and a few minutes...
“I don’t remember much and, to be honest, I felt terrible the next day,” Will says. “If it’s a particularly big night, you should remember to take a pink capsule before bed, which I consider a bit of a chore. I think having something like this makes you more aware of what you’re consuming, and...
Who is calling shots about how many days you end up working in the office? It slowly dawned on the bosses that it wasn’t them. Real holders of power? The elusive “top talent” that every firm tries to attract. Raj Chowdhury, an economist at Harvard Business School, argues that throughout history, the most sought-after candidates...
causation will be hard to prove – did the words of the chatbot really pissed off the killer? Nobody will know for sure. But the perpetrator spoke to the chatbot, and the chatbot supported this action. Or maybe the chatbot broke someone’s heart so badly that they wanted to kill themselves? (Already, some chatbots drive...
While many people have only recently upgraded to Wi-Fi 6 and some may consider upgrading to Wi-Fi 6E, their successor is on the horizon. Wi-Fi 7 is the next big thing, and like its predecessors, the new standard promises faster connections, lower latency, and the ability to gracefully manage more connections than ever before. If...
I was in academics for over 20 years as a member of the physics department at Southeast Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Here the department is small enough for all of us to share the load of the course, which is quite nice – it gives me the opportunity to teach a wide range of...
