Smutstep, Pokémon Waymo swattings, foodie calls, the Cornell 7 merch economy, LinkedIn selfies, TikTok's hot dog bandit, ...

y as people seek a new app to connect with others ahead of the TikTok ban. The Chinese app is less a TikTok clone and more of an Instagram meets Pinterest, featuring aspirational content and ...

Body cameras were supposed to hold police accountable. So why is police violence still rising? Why are cops almost never convicted using body cam footage? And why are so many people now demanding that ...

Is AI really a massive bubble waiting to burst, or are we underestimating how durable the AI boom actually is?

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Every single video included in these news stories comes from a Ring camera or other home surveillance system. The people interviewed in nearly half a dozen local news segments all claim that kids have ...

There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

In 2017, Facebook’s AI research division and Georgia Tech published a paper titled “Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues.” In it, they described how they trained AI chatbots ...

Across the internet, young progressive internet users are embracing their inner MSNBC moms and proudly “libbing out." "Libbed out so hard at the Kamala rally tonight I’m feeling cautiously optimistic ...

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After years of futilely mashing our fingers onto touch screens, buttons on technology products are making a comeback. I’ve been fascinated by this re-buttonization of tech and once you see it, you’ll ...