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...
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...
“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...
Camping at the location of the orbs is a solid strategy: the player must collect the orbs to win (imagine if Pac-Man’s ghosts just lingered near the entrances to every corner of the map). It also makes the game less fun. Players no longer experience thrilling chases. Instead, the AI can set up an unpredictable...
With the pandemic Entering an amorphous new phase and increasing political polarization around the world, 2022 has been a challenging and often perplexing year for digital security. And while hackers often relied on old chestnuts like phishing attacks and ransomware attacks, they still found new malicious options to undermine protection. Here’s WIRED’s look at...
Michael Kalore: In a word? Lauren Good: I’ll give you a phrase. Michael Kalore: Elon Musk. Lauren Good: Oh really? It’s like a proper name. Michael Kalore: Yeah. Lauren Good: It’s like a wrong noun. Michael KaloreA: I mean, it looks great. And you? Lauren Good: I went with a dictionary word, so I chose...
