Lauren Tamaki for Vox The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate Azeem Azhar is, as he puts it in his 2021 book The Exponential Age, a “child of the microchip,” born in 1972, the “year after the first commercially produced computer processor was released.” As a…
In factory farms, pigs are sometimes locked in crates the width and length of their bodies, so they can’t even turn around. | Getty Images These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering. If you care about animals and want to reduce their suffering, but aren’t sure exactly how, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE)…
Three strategies for helping your son develop critical thinking skills. Gary Barker believes parents are inadvertently ceding too much ground to digital culture influencers who may not have their sons’ best interests at heart. As the president and CEO of the nonprofit think tank Equimundo, which promotes gender equality, Barker spends much of his …
Tesla has delivered its first Cybertrucks, and now we finally know the SUV’s price and trim details. You’re not dreaming: Tesla Cybertruck is actually available. What “available” means is up for debate, though. At an event in its Texas Gigafactory, Tesla delivered its first Cybertruck vehicles, and revealed the steely SUV’s price and trims (hint:…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work. It’s hard enough to understand quantum computing, the potentially transformative next generation of computing. Unlike classical computers, which are powered by chips packed with billions of tiny transistors that process…
Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images To the victor — Microsoft — go the spoils? The seismic shake-up at OpenAI has come as a shock to almost everyone. But the truth is, the company was probably always going to break. It was built on…
Telegram has released an update in celebration of Halloween, featuring a range of fresh functionalities including Replies 2.0, Adjustable Link Previews, and Name Colors, among other additions.
The best games for your Meta Quest headset, whether you’re playing with friends or solo The best Meta Quest games whisk you away to action-filled, fantastical virtual worlds that drag you into wild adventures. Or maybe you prefer calming, relaxing, mind-stimulating puzzle games. If so, the Meta Quest Store has plenty of incredible games for…
The human rights organization is pressing Meta to compensate victims of Ethiopia’s Tigray civil conflict. Meta, and its platform Facebook, are facing continued calls for accountability and reparations following accusations that its platforms can exacerbate violent global conflicts. The latest push comes in the form of a new report by human rights organization Amnesty International,…
President Joe Biden greets Chinese leader Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI. The big news from the summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader…