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Can I Opt Out of Meta’s A.I. Scraping? Sort Of.

Last month, Meta announced that it was going to expand its artificial intelligence services around the world, and the company let users in...

A Conversation With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, and an OpenAI Whistle-Blower Speaks Out

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, we host a cultural exchange. Kevin and Casey show off...

Auriea Harvey’s Digital Worlds Are Love Stories, Without Neat Ends

Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the...

‘This Is Going to Be Painful’: How a Bold A.I. Device Flopped

Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence, the founders of the...

That Much-Despised Apple Ad Could Be More Disturbing Than It Looks

If you haven’t yet seen the new and already-infamous Apple ad — the one in which a giant mechanical compactor violently crushes a...

The Life, Death and Rebirth of an A.I.-Generated News Outlet

The news was featured on MSN.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” At the top of the story was a...

U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

Federal regulators have reached a deal that allows them to proceed with antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia...

How Electric Car Batteries Might Aid the Grid (and Win Over Drivers)

Electric cars are more expensive than gasoline models largely because batteries cost so much. But new technology could turn those pricey devices into...

Finding Your Roots With Help From Your Phone

Spending time in graveyards and libraries may not be everyone’s idea of summer fun, but for those interested in finding their roots, collecting...

As China’s Internet Disappears, ‘We Lose Parts of Our Collective Memory’

Chinese people know their country’s internet is different. There is no Google, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. They use euphemisms online to communicate the...

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