Category: Technology

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat. Source: Wired.

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seen it. The glowing eyes. The gangly frame that should not be able to stand, propped up by rods unseen in the dark. It is Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton—the most fashionable Home Depot product of probably the past decade. If you live in America, this skeleton presides over a yard near you. And newly…

Zoë Schiffer is joined by senior editor Louise Matsakis to run through five stories that you need to know about this week—from how SEO is changing in the era of AI to how frogs became a protest symbol. Then, Zoë and Louise dive into why some people have been filing complaints to the FTC about…

What Makes a Great Gaming Laptop? Picking the right gaming laptop can be a delicate balance. The raw power you typically find in gaming desktops takes a lot of energy, and when you put that in a laptop, it can drain the battery fast. Similarly, the superfast refresh rates in gaming monitors can lead to…

I was expecting SuperWide would make dialog harder to understand, but the Stage Pro has exceptional vocal clarity for both Far and Near, even in Music and Movie modes. I found the extra boost to upper-mids and highs in Vocal mode unnecessary. As a music speaker, the Stage Pro is geared toward lower volumes and…

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platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result of what Microsoft said was “an inadvertent configuration change.” The incident—which marks the second major cloud provider outage in less than two weeks—highlights the instability of an internet built largely on infrastructure run by…

that Jonathan Paul has ever recorded in a London Tube station is about 42 Celsius, or 107.6 Fahrenheit. Paul, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, uses his thermometer-equipped smartphone to take such readings. 42C is the kind of heat that would send someone running to the nearest air-conditioned building. Underground, though, they can’t.…

The texture on the mousepad is consistent, and I think there are some benefits to the plastic over the fabric one. I always find a way to get small cuts or perforations in my typical fabric mousepads, and it’s much more difficult to damage a plastic mousepad when you’re tinkering on top of it. (Admittedly,…