The European towns and cities that are magical at Christmas
Nowhere does festive charm quite like mainland Europe. With its chilly weather and gothic sensibilities, the continent, particularly its northern regRead More…
An American teen sent a letter to a random address across the world. It led to lifelong friendship
Growing up in a very small town in the Alentejo region of Portugal during the 1970s, Leonor Drago recalls watching planes fly over her home, coRead More…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-chRead More…
OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots
If OpenAI has its way, the next online course you take might have a chatbot component. Speaking at a fireside on Monday hosted by Coeus Collective,Read More…
Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities
Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste aRead More…
Ex-PayPal COO David Sacks is Trump’s new crypto and AI ‘czar’
Incoming president Donald Trump has a new crypto and AI “czar”: ex-PayPal COO David Sacks. Trump announced Sacks’ appointment Thursday in aRead More…
OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot
OpenAI finally released the full version of o1, which gives smarter answers than GPT-4o by using additional compute to “think” about questionRead More…
OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI is considering ditching a provision that would shut Microsoft, a major partner and investor, out of its moRead More…
a16z-backed Toka wants to help US agencies hack into security cameras and other IoT devices
U.S. government agencies legally hack into cell phones or emails all the time: think of the FBI wiretapping a suspected drug lord or the NSA monitorRead More…
It’s a Raspberry Pi 5 in a keyboard, and it’s called the Raspberry Pi 500
Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications. Named the RaspberrRead More…