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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI
Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was...
Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?
AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like T...
Tesla recalls thousands of Model Ys at risk of… missing a sticker
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a recall for 14,575 Model Y vehicles over an issue that Tesla can't fix with its usual sof...
Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters
Before Boots Riley became the writer / director / musician behind Sorry to Bother You and I'm a Virgo, he was a young community organizer fighting for social ju...
The post-search Google era begins
Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing the searchi...
If I could only have one laptop for work and gaming, I’d get this one
I've loved the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 since it launched in 2020. I bought one for my wife after reading about how awesome it was on a little site called The Verg...
The Boys limped through its last season, but made up for it with the finale
It's hard existing in a world seemingly designed for the undeservingly powerful and painfully boring few. They have been gifted what many of us only dream of: t...
Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year
Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some work...
Microsoft’s consumer marketing chief to leave next year
Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, is leaving the company after 35 years. Mehdi announced his departure in...
Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button
Microsoft is rolling out Office app updates next week that allow users to disable a floating Copilot button. The button appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint...
Anker’s new earbuds have the best call quality I’ve ever heard
Soundcore, Anker's audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it's aiming at the big guys. The two n...
Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction
Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company's first earbuds featuring the Thus AI audio...