Tech Culture
There's a technology revolution everywhere and it's manifesting in more ways than we can imagine.
AI art generator Stable Diffusion faces another copyright lawsuit, this time from Getty
Does data scraping fall under fair use? Not according to Getty Images
Bitcoin has seen a resurgence this month, but is the crypto winter really thawing?
Here's what analysts think
Artists launch copyright lawsuit against AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney
"Another step toward making AI fair & ethical for everyone"
Researchers have created a new and potentially dangerous encryption-breaking quantum algorithm
Some cryptography researchers see the claim as misleading, others see it as a potential warning sign
US government publishes annual unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena
More than 500 UAP reports have been cataloged
Congress refuses Army request to spend $400 million on Microsoft HoloLens-based headsets
It awarded $40 million to build a new version instead
What just happened? The controversial deal between Microsoft and the US Army for the military branch to buy 6,900 HoloLens-based headsets at the cost of $400 million has been blocked by congress. As a consolation, the government approved $40 million for Microsoft to build a new and improved version that soldiers will hopefully hate less.
Bill Gates reveals which phone is his new daily driver
It's not from Microsoft
In a nutshell: Bill Gates has an impressive CV: co-founder and, at various times, chairman, chief executive officer, president, and chief software architect of Microsoft; the sixth wealthiest person in the world; author; and renowned philanthropist. But what people really want to know is which phone he uses as his daily driver. That question has now been answered, and it seems Gates is a fan of foldables, though not ones from his former company.
A live-action Dungeons & Dragons series is coming to Paramount+
Producers double down on the as-yet-unknown success of their theatrical adaptation
In a nutshell: If you are looking forward to the upcoming theatrical release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, then you might be pleased to learn that Paramount has just agreed to bring a live-action D&D series to the small screen via its streaming service. The pilot is in very early production, with Rawson Marshall Thurber writing and directing.
John Deere provides some right-to-repair concessions to customers
What just happened? John Deere finally caved, offering its customers some rights to repair and fix their expensive equipment however they like. There's a catch, though: if state or federal right-to-repair laws go into effect, the concessions are no more.
Facial recognition leads to week-long wrongful imprisonment
Louisiana police have few, if any restrictions on using facial recognition
Belarus law grants government ability to pirate western multimedia, including software until 2025
Scheme allows IP owners to collect money owed, if they can
Nearly all new homes built in England must include gigabit internet access
Tenants can also more easily request gigabit upgrades
Creative Labs founder Sim Wong Hoo, creator of the Sound Blaster, has died
Sound Blaster was the king of 90s PC audio
Seattle schools sue social media companies for causing "mental health crisis" among children
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube have been named in the suit
January tech layoffs top December's total in less than a week
The big picture: We are less than a week into the new year and the tech sector is already feeling the squeeze. According to Layoffs Tracker, a whopping 29,686 tech employees across 27 companies have been let go globally so far this month. For comparison, 17,074 tech workers lost their jobs in December 2022. Put another way, there have been nearly 74 percent more job cuts in the first several days of 2023 compared to all of last month.
ChatGPT is getting banned from New York City public schools
AI technology is a new form of an old problem with exam cheating
Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia administrators for four decades in "bid to control website's content" (Updated)
Weeks after a former Twitter employee was jailed for being a Saudi spy
AI will go mainstream in 2023
The significance of AI is becoming more commonplace and impactful for a large percentage of the population
Highly anticipated: One of the many challenges in analyzing and predicting trends in the tech industry is that some topics get so much coverage well before they're ready that by the time they start to really impact the market they sound like old news. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a great example of this phenomenon.
Adobe: Online holiday spending reached record $211.7 billion in 2022
Nearly half of all online sales came through smartphones
Sony shares sneak peek of Gran Turismo movie, and its car project with Honda
Gran Turismo hits theaters this summer
Compaq: The Best-Selling PC Brand in the Late 1980s and '90s
#TBT Computers had finally made the jump from taking up a full room to something that could fit on a desk. In 1982, three entrepreneurs founded Compaq to make a portable IBM-compatible PC, they succeeded.
Science isn't as disruptive as it used to be. Now we need to understand why
Citation data shows a steep decline in revolutionary discoveries