Month: January 2023

Data scientists will have a bumper year in 2023 as governments invest heavily in applying AI and algorithms to public policy. The European Commission has committed €1.3 billion ($1.38 billion) to research and innovation under the Digital Europe Programme. The UK government is funding £117 million ($143.6 million) for...

How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and art created by humans? Ari Melenciano, an artist who works at Google’s Creative Lab, squints at her computer screen during our Zoom chat and scans artwork created with generative AI....

A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities.  One example was the 2012 work by neuroscientists Leigh Hochberg and John Donoghue at Brown University. Their team trained two people with long-standing paralysis—a 58-year-old woman...

But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that newly relaxed sanctions still had not authorized those activities, “unfortunately.” Isakowitz instead urged Congress to work with the Biden administration “to identify additional means of ensuring Iranians’ access to...

A browser is a web-based interface that allows you to interact with the majority of the web. There are lots of popular browsers on the market. The three most popular websites are Chrome, Safari, and Firefox with market share of 62.8 percent, 19.3%, and 4.2 percentage, respectively. Let’s take...

Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to back up what some workers at the company have long alleged: that the online retail giant’s warehouse and fulfillment facilities are designed for speed over safety, causing lower-back injuries and...

If you peruse our Best Sex Toys guide, you’ll come across several products from Lelo, but let’s be honest—they can be pretty expensive. That’s why Lelo’s 20th-anniversary sale caught my eye. There aren’t a ton of huge discounts, but there are a couple of standouts, including some of our...

E-bikes are becoming more popular and it’s not difficult to see why . After all, who doesn’t want an extra speeds to get the pain from any ride? Do you need convincing? Here are a few more reasons to be part of the electric bike trend… 1. They’ll allow...

New year, new MacBooks. With little fanfare, Apple has unveiled updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, now powered by the M2 Pro and M2 Max Apple-made chipsets. That’s practically the only major change from the 2021 MacBook Pro predecessors. However, that’s not the only new hardware announcement. There’s also...

Britishvolt was meant to be the UK’s answer to Tesla. By 2024, it was supposed to be producing hundreds of thousands of lithium-ion batteries a year for the British automotive sector, and driving an industrial renaissance for the economically deprived northeast of the country.  Since its launch in 2019,...