QR Code Scams Are on the Rise, FTC Warns — Here’s How to Avoid Falling for the Grift
From fake stickers to spoofed sites, here are all the ways criminals use QR codes to steal your information (and money).
The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small…
Inside the Resort Where Customer Service Reigns Supreme
The team at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass integrates customer service and a “can-do spirit” into everything they do — and it is paying off.
Mapping the micro and macro of biology with spatial omics and AI
37 trillion. That is the number or cells that form a human being. How they all work together to sustain life is possibly the biggest unsolved puzzle in biology. A group of up-and-coming technologies for spatially resolved multi omics, here collectively called “spatial omics,” may provide researchers with the solution. Over the last 20 years,…
How GenAI can turn an autobiography into an interactive Black history lesson
We talk a lot about the negative side of AI, but what about the positive aspects like being able to interact with authors or historical figures based on feeding their writing into a large language model? James Lowry may not be a household name, but his history is part of the Black experience in America. […]
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Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images
Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, subscribers can now create and send AI generated images based on a text prompt. In addition to getting access to a new AI extend tool, subscribers can now also use the app’s Dream selfie feature with […]
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Instagram finstas may turn into a new product called ‘flipside,’ meant only for close friends
Instagram is considering a new feature called “flipside” that allows users to establish a new, private side to their profile where they could post more candid and personal photos for a subset of their friends. The feature essentially productizes “finstas” — the slang term for alternate Instagram accounts where people post their real-life photos, as […]
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Strategies for building AI tools people will actually use at work
Jackie Rocca Contributor Jackie Rocca is VP of Product, AI, at Slack, where she oversees the vision and execution of Slack AI, which brings generative AI natively and securely into Slack’s user experience. The application of generative AI in the workplace is a long game, and we’re in the very early stages. Most businesses looking […]
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E3 has entertained its last electronic expo
E3’s decades-long history has been peppered with ups and downs. The annual Los Angeles-based gaming expo saw a decade of steady growth after it was founded in the mid-90s. The mid-00s, on the other hand, were an altogether different story, as the event struggled, downsized and moved out of the LA Convention Center. Opening the […]
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West Coast, Get Ready — Dunkin’ Is Coming, and It’s Bringing ‘Insta-Ready’ Gen Z Drinks With It
The coffee shop’s sales topped $10 billion in 2021, and its coming in at #5 on our 2023 Franchise 500.
Fuzzy Door’s Viewscreen on-set AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder
Practically every TV and film production uses CG these days, but a show with a fully digital character takes it to another level. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” is one of those, and his production company Fuzzy Door has built a suite of on-set augmented reality tools called Viewscreen turning this potentially awkward process into an opportunity […]
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