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On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, isolating eyes, noses, and mouths before passing...
When the US Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter hearing-aid software for Apple’s AirPods Pro in September 2024, with a device price point right around $200, I was excited. I have mild to medium hearing loss and tinnitus, and my everyday programmed hearing aids cost just over...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by...
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II. Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to make...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Boston, 1992. Dans un loft miteux du South End qui ressemble plus à un squat qu’à un labo, une bande de hackers bidouille tranquillement. On est dans la cave de la cave du 59 Hamilton Street, à côté du Boston...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling...
June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It was like a robot.” June, who asked that we use...
There is no word for art in most Native American languages. Instead, the closest terms speak not to objecthood but to action and intention. In Lakota, “wówačhiŋtȟaŋka” implies deep thought or reflection, while “wóčhekiye” suggests offering or prayer. Art is not separate from life; it is ceremony,...
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That year, the coronavirus was responsible for around 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Then came the vaccines....
One winter afternoon in a conference room in Taipei, a pair of twentysomething women dragged their friend across the floor. Lying on the ground in checkered pants and a brown sweatshirt, she was pretending to be either injured or dead. One friend picked her up by her arms, the other grabbed hold of...
J’sais pas vous, mais moi, je perds tout le temps des trucs… Où sont mes chaussures ? Où est mon téléphone ? Mais il est où encore cet aspi robot ? Et mes clés ? J’lai garé où déjà la voiture ? Mais où est ce que j’avais noté ce truc ? T’as pas vu les enfants ?????...
Vous savez ce qui pousse des ingénieurs bien payés d’Amazon Web Services à tout plaquer ? C’est l’écœurement total face à ce qu’ils appellent “l’économie de la surveillance”. Et c’est exactement ce qui est arrivé à Mohammed, Murtaza et Santhosh en 2019 qui...