Sony has launched the Reon Pocket, which can only be described as a wearable air conditioner. The Reon Pocket is a fairly slim palm-sized white plastic device that charges over USB-C and connects to your […]
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Could your Fitbit Detect Early COVID-19 Symptoms?
Fitbit and other wearable devices typically linked to exercise are being studied as ways to identify people who are potentially infected with COVID-19 before symptoms appear. Changes in heart rate, respiratory rate, and other biometrics […]
GPT-3 is Shockingly Good—and Completely Mindless
The AI is the largest language model ever created and can generate amazing human-like text on demand but won’t bring us closer to true intelligence. GPT-3 is the most powerful language model ever. Its predecessor, […]
OpenAI’s CEO: “The GPT-3 Hype is Way Too Much”
GPT-3 can generate impressively fluid text, but it is often unmoored from reality. GPT-3 was built by directing machine-learning algorithms to study the statistical patterns in almost a trillion words collected from the web and […]
China Launches Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Mission
China’s first fully homegrown Mars mission is on its way to the Red Planet. Tianwen-1 consists of an orbiter and a lander/rover duo, a combination of craft that had never before launched together toward the […]
UAE’s ‘Apollo moment’
The United Arab Emirates is on its way to Mars, the first Arab country to launch an interplanetary mission, which it designed and built in just six years and dubbed Hope. The Hope Mars orbiter […]
An Information Ecosystem at Risk
A new video re-creates a history that never happened, showing the power of AI-generated media. Starting in 2019, media artists Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with two […]
Google’s Holographic Glasses and Smart Tattoos
Google has been trying to get a toehold in wearables for years but hasn’t quite found the spot. Recently, however, the company has made a more determined push. Asimple pair of sunglasses that projects holographic […]
Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. There are strong indications that this attack […]