Ikea's New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats
…Deciding to stick with his original tubular chrome frame idea, Axelsson hand-welded 20 prototypes himself, a skill acquired from growing up around his father's metal workshop, but the beach ball…
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AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
…and Amazon mint their own silicon to improve the performance of their cloud-computing platforms. Meta recently said it would deploy 1 gigawatt of compute capacity with a new chip developed with…
The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
…Some of the world’s largest tech companies such as Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet have sponsored RightsCon or sent employees to participate in it. Last year, Access Now hosted RightsCon in Taipei…
The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?
…So did Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and Demis Hassabis, a cofounder and CEO of Google’s DeepMind Technologies. (Though the filmmakers say they requested interviews with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg…
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
…To extend the metaphor, hand-tuned CUDA libraries optimized for one matrix operation are the equivalent of kitchen tools designed for a single job and nothing more—a cherry pitter, a shrimp…
A Smarter Way to Watch Baby in Your Back Seat
…The adapter plugs into your car’s USB data port (a charge-only port won’t work), and the camera mounts onto your rear headrest either by clipping onto the metal posts…
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
…In February, The New York Times reported that Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta had received hundreds of administrative subpoenas during the previous six months. In March, a group of US congressmembers asked…
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
…Snap regularly makes proactive referrals to the agency, and Meta says it cooperates with law enforcement to combat drug sales. Spotify's position, according to the report, is that, as a licensed…
Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
…The last Vertu phone we tested in 2023, the Metavertu, scared us with its privacy missteps. We'll have to see if the AlphaFold will spark the same fears. It's on…
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
…real metadata, real sensor noise, real lighting physics. The manipulation sits in a single detail—a patch added to a uniform, a weapon placed into a hand, a face subtly swapped in…