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Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be prompted to use generative AI to help them write and edit…

The social media company X is closing its San Francisco office “over the next few weeks,” according to an internal email sent out by CEO Linda Yaccarino earlier today. “This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the…

One thing that US politicians seem to agree on, despite a great many other differences, is that the country needs to lead technologically to maintain a position of economic and geopolitical preeminence. How to ensure such leadership will be…

Finally, a release date was chosen: May 25, 1979—exactly two years to the day following the release of Star Wars. Ladd had come to believe that the date was a lucky one for the studio.“I remember I was in a horrible office in Times Square,…

The Friend gets around 15 hours of battery life and comes in an array of colors that look almost exactly like the color palette of the first Apple iMac computers. (Schiffmann says that wasn’t intentional.) The design comes from a…

For someone just getting into this weird craft, BASIC felt positively thaumaturgic. It was spellcasting: You uttered words that brought iron and silicon to life, and made them do things. (As the software engineer Erin Spiceland puts it,…

New Jersey itself is a home to many large pharmaceutical companies—and if these companies use AI to design new drugs, nearby data centers are vital, Sullivan says.“If you’re three people at a desk trying to develop the next Google, the next…

An ambitious project to find and purify water for growing crops on the Moon is underway, and could involve a microwave from Tesco.The joint UK-Canada £1.2 million Aqualunar Challenge is launching to support development of water-purifying…

NASA reports the Northern Lights might be gracing our skies this week. A moderate geomagnetic storm appears to be zooming towards Earth, potentially causing radio disruptions.A solar flare has caused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Brits have fessed up to 'roomscrolling' the act of ogling property listings without any intention to buy, with over half admitting to this guilty pleasure.A survey of 2,000 adults found that a whopping 42% are daydreaming about other…