What is USB-C? A computer engineer explains the one device connector to rule them all. Apple announced on Sept. 12, 2023, that it plans to…
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Is Kissanime Safe to Use? – Alternative Anime Streaming Sites. As an anime fan, I’ve always been on the lookout for new and exciting ways…
What Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s canceled cage match says about masculine anxiety. While the cage fight between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO…
To steal today’s computerized cars, thieves go high-tech. These days, cars are computer centers on wheels. Today’s vehicles can contain over 100 computers and millions of…
Friday essay: Australia may ban WeChat – but for many Chinese Australians, it’s their ‘lifeline’. One morning in February 2021, I was woken by a…
Your genetic code has lots of ‘words’ for the same thing – information theory may help explain the redundancies. Nearly all life, from bacteria to…
Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t. If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by…
Microsoft and Activision: the big questions that will decide whether the US$68 billion deal goes ahead. Microsoft’s proposed US$68 billion (£52 billion) acquisition of video…
The folly of making art with text-to-image generative AI. Making art using artificial intelligence isn’t new. It’s as old as AI itself. What’s new is…
Can chatbots write inspirational and wise sermons? When several hundred Lutherans in Bavaria, Germany, attended a service on June 9, 2023, designed by ChatGPT, the program…