Nvidia temporarily became a $1 trillion company on Tuesday morning, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O...
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Urban drone deliveries, and our guide to AI regulations
—Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk to deliver the iced tea I’d ordered half an hour earlier. The delivery service is operated by Meituan, China’s most popular food delivery platform, which has...
Elon Musk teases two new EVs, says Tesla is already building one
Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased two new electric vehicles Tuesday at the automaker’s 2023 annual shareholder’s meeting. The billionaire executive even claimed that Tesla is already in the process of building a new product. “I just want to emphasize that we are...
Google Chrome Brings Better AI Brains to the Web
Much of the AI technology we use today runs in hulking data centers operated by cloud computing giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But with a technology called WebGPU that Google is now building into its Chrome browser, web apps can take advantage of AI...
The 30 best Mother’s Day gifts for moms in 2023
Joseph Joseph Rocker Garlic CrusherGarlic is a well-known staple in many a culinary dish. If you tend to burn through a lot of it, however, it pays to invest in a tool that makes prepping it for your next meal a bit more effortless. Luckily, this durable...
‘Mother of all of us’
Priscilla King Gray, the wife of former MIT president Paul Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60, and cofounder of the MIT Public Service Center (since renamed the PKG Center), died February 8 at age 89. In more than 50 years at the Institute, beginning when her husband...
The Polestar 4 replaces a rear window with a hi-def screen
Polestar introduced the Polestar 4, the second SUV in its lineup, at Auto Shanghai 2023. Actually, it’s technically an SUV coupé, meaning it has the space and four doors of an SUV, but the sloping roof and aerodynamics of a coupé. The Polestar 4 has plenty of...
The Time I Tried Polyphasic Sleep and Started Hallucinating
I check my watch. 3 a.m. I have no idea where I am. The last two hours: a blank, unknowable darkness. I hear noises, like a medieval battleground. Swords clashing, horses galloping, men screaming. I stagger forward, trying to get my bearings. I'm so confused....
Where to preorder the Nintendo Switch OLED: Tears of the Kindom Edition
For those eager to get their hands on the limited-edition console first, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart are all currently still accepting preorders. Unlike the standard Switch, the Switch OLED boasts a vibrant seven-inch OLED display, 64GB of storage, and an...
Delivering insights at scale by modernizing data
This data is often siloed in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, with ERP data modernization, businesses can integrate data from multiple sources, which will ensure data accessibility and create the framework for digital transformation....
Daily Crunch: Bing allows users to generate images using ‘very latest DALL-E models’
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AI Gets Smarter, Safer, More Visual With GPT-4 Release, OpenAI Says
The hottest AI technology foundation, OpenAI's GPT, got a big upgrade Tuesday that's now available in the premium version of the ChatGPT chatbot.The new GPT-4 can generate much longer strings of text and respond when people feed it images, and it's designed to...