How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
The race to lead A.I. has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To…
Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
Online data has long been a valuable commodity. For years, Meta and Google have used data to target their online…
What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
OpenAI, Google and other tech companies train their chatbots with huge amounts of data culled from books, Wikipedia articles, news…
Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse. The crowd gasped as the moon…
Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.
Stripe, a payments start-up, is one of the most successful companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in a generation. Last…
Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week we look at how A.I. is…
Standby Cruising: A New Option for Bargain Seekers
In February, Barb McGowan took a seven-day cruise on Holland America Line, visiting the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the…
Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global
Cualquiera que trabaje a fondo en las trincheras de internet te dirá que no es una maquinaria bien aceitada que…
NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
NASA will be renting some cool wheels to drive around the moon. Space agency officials announced on Wednesday that they…
TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App
In a TV commercial, Sister Monica Clare, a nun in northern New Jersey, walks through a church that’s bathed in…