Use These 4 Storytelling Strategies to Grow a Loyal Following
Sharing personal struggles, triumphs, or the vision for the future, is an authentic method that resonates deeply, turning audiences into engaged supporters and customers.
Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology
Skylight, a startup taking on TikTok with a more open alternative, is launching its mobile app to the public on Tuesday after just ten weeks of active development. The app, which is backed by Mark Cuban and others, is now one of many to build on top of the AT Protocol — the same technology […]
Your Mac, Your Way: MacPilot Optimizes macOS for Your Workflow
Discover 1,200 Mac settings to improve how you work with MacPilot.
ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot that’s gaining users
OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. SimilarWeb, which estimates traffic to websites including chatbot web apps, has recorded healthy recent upticks in usage across bots like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. Gemini’s web traffic grew […]
Lip-Bu Tan says Intel will spin off non-core units
Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan wasted no time laying out his plans for the semiconductor giant. Speaking at the Intel Vision conference this week, Tan told attendees that the company will spin off assets that aren’t core to its mission, Bloomberg reported. Tan didn’t specify what was classified as core and non-core to the company’s […]
Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service
Despite Google’s intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular photo backup services around. In fact, it was one of the most attractive offerings for years until it stopped offering unlimited storage in 2020. That change in the tech […]
The Download: brain-computer interfaces, and teaching an AI model to give therapy
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. Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire, or…
Master These 5 Pillars of Excellence to Overcome Obstacles and Reach Your Goals
Being a top-performing entrepreneur takes more than discipline. There are the five pillars of entrepreneurial excellence you need to build any empire.
Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test
Tech companies are always trying out new ways for people to interact with computers—consider efforts like Google Glass, the Apple Watch, and Amazon’s Alexa. You’ve probably used at least one. But the most radical option has been tried by fewer than 100 people on Earth—those who have lived for months or years with implanted brain-computer…
How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?
On March 27, the results of the first clinical trial for a generative AI therapy bot were published, and they showed that people in the trial who had depression or anxiety or were at risk for eating disorders benefited from chatting with the bot. I was surprised by those results, which you can read about…
OpenAI’s new image generator is now available to all users
OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. The feature was until now available only to paying users of ChatGPT. While it is not clear how many images users on the free tier can generate, Altman last week had […]