Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for…
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How a Citizen Science Organization Aims to Preserve the Places It Brings Tourists to Study
…Because the company uses boats that have been in the region for over a century—rather than import or build new boats for its operations—their husbands are able to work as…
I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
…About one out of every five questions in a new conversation thread triggered an ad at the bottom of the chatbot’s output. These ads always included a website link as a…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
…Deepfake videos, cloned voices, and bogus news stories are dissolving the line between what’s real and what’s not faster than society can adapt. Fully AI-generated personas, with faces, voices…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker says. Shopping Shift The new…
AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
…Inside is an entirely new hand-wound version of Swatch's Sistem51 caliber, a movement that is completely machine assembled. Swatch has 15 active patents on this new iteration and has also…
Can Listening to ‘Subliminals’ Make You Beautiful? Plenty of Women Believe It
…Kristian Sandberg, who is an associate professor of neuroscience and leads an international research group at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University in Denmark, has published work on subliminal…
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
…The transition comes at the same time as the advent of new cryptographic tricks—namely, “zero-knowledge proofs”—that enable computers to manipulate and verify the integrity of encrypted data without seeing…
Amazon’s Ember Artline Makes Art TVs More Accessible
…Alexa+ is integrated and helpful. The video artwork looks stunning. Easy mounting. Low price. TIRED The contrast ratio is average, which makes the photo artwork appear with a lack of texture. Alexa…
Logitech Finally Made a Keyboard to Pair With Its Top Mouse
…While Logitech couldn’t tell me who manufactured them, I would imagine they were made by one of multiple new brands that focus on smooth “pre-lubed” switches—a choice that makes…