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Lauren Goode: It sounds like you're a little bit aligned with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were surveyed by the junior college in Palo Alto in terms of being a liberaltarian.Michael Calore: No, I go further left than that, I would…

James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island…

People have never been better, here in the Year of Our Simulation 2024, at hating the very forces underlying that simulation—at hating, in other words, digital technology itself. And good for them. These everywhere-active tech critics don’t…

The Swifties were the canaries in the coal mine. Last week, as the fallout from the US presidential election ricocheted across the internet, Taylor Swift fans took a stand. In droves, they left X and went to Bluesky, where, as one Swiftie…

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its…

During the month of October, many folks get into the spirit of Halloween by putting themselves in scary situations, like going to see a horror movie or visiting a haunted house. However, some travelers seek that feeling all year round by…

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, Max (aka the streamer formerly known as HBO Max)—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also…

So what can you do right now? Let's start with Writing Tools, which helps to you Rewrite, Proofread, or Summarize text wherever you are in the operating system. Rewrite changes the sentence's tone from casual to professional, for example,…

It's really no wonder that there has been this scattering to the winds of people on social media now, as if they didn't need another reason to migrate to other platforms. I remember that moment when there was Threads, Bluesky, Twitter,…

In just a few short weeks, it'll be nothing but Hallmark movies and Lindsay Lohan rom-coms, but right now it's spooky season and if you're looking to relax with a chainsaw-wielding serial killer, a telekinetic teen hellbent on revenge, or a…