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‘Blockout 2024’ Wants to Send Celebrities to the ‘Digital Guillotine’

As protests over the war in Gaza unfolded blocks away, last week’s Met Gala was largely devoid of political statements on the red...

OpenAI’s Flirty New Assistant, Google Guts the Web and We Play HatGPT

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its newest A.I. model. It has an...

Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

As it is in the United States, TikTok is popular in Taiwan, used by a quarter of the island’s 23 million residents.People post...

Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91

Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an indispensable role in every smartphone, laptop and tablet computer,...

What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?

Last summer, as they drove to a doctor’s appointment near their home in Manhattan, Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage listened to a podcast...

E.U. Investigates Meta Over Addictive Social Media Effects on Children

European Union regulators on Thursday opened investigations into the American tech giant Meta for the potentially addictive effects Instagram and Facebook have on...

An A.I. Robot Named Sophia Tells Graduates to Believe in Themselves

When it comes to choosing a commencement speaker, colleges and universities take different approaches. Some go local, selecting well-known figures in the area....

Netflix and the N.F.L. Sign a Three-Season Deal

Netflix is no longer simply in the “sports-adjacent” business. On Wednesday, the streaming giant announced a three-season deal with the National Football League...

Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.

Every smartphone has an expiration date. That day arrives when the software updates stop coming and you start missing out on new apps...

A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students

Over the last 10 months, Chelsea Prudencio, a junior at Baruch College in Manhattan, got a crash course in artificial intelligence through a...

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