Rob May predicts that bots will become the default collectors of information, which could suck for us because they never tire and have no shame. Will we be inundated with non-stop requests to benefit the AI models more than ourselves? ~ learn […]
From Ben Thompson of Stratechery. My takeaways are that it’s an absolutely incredible personal entertainment device, yet hostile to both guest users and productivity work that requires more than one app. ~ learn more
Warning: slow down whenever money is at stake! “A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of […]
“Urban noise pollution is not going away. That’s why we’ve put together this guide to the ‘noisiest’ cities across the US, UK, and mainland Europe, and the places within them where it’s possible to escape the hustle and bustle of […]
It’s a solid couple minutes of entertainment watching Javier Milei systematically cut down his government to libertarian-appropriate size. ~ learn more
“Bryan was disgusting, I was told. “A freak.” A blood sucking, overly-estrogenized bug man. His quest to “live forever” was “demonic,” the seething Twitter trads have long declared. Too online. Dangerous. “Nobody should give this man a platform.” I couldn’t […]
This is my first time learning about this. The panels provide shade for the crops, which is useful in hot weather or during droughts. It seems the trade-off is the ease of harvest. “Agrivoltaics – the practice of using land […]
“Like on-land carbon capture technologies, which can extract carbon from our air, marine carbon capture harvests the molecules from seawater or the air above. Carbon causes problems for both: Excess carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere creates a kind of […]
South Korea established itself as a world class manufacturer in part due to their policy of conditional export subsidies. They’d help their local firms out, but only after they proved overseas customers liked their products. Could this approach work in […]
“The law was fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but starting this month, farmers across the country must abide by the regulation, passed in 2018, which requires them to provide more space for breeding pigs in their […]