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I'll know it's art when I see it?

32-bits ought to be enough for everyone

"Everyone's a critic"

For those that never sleep

How about a 4-hour work week?

Oh, they *say* it's a simulation. I'm ducking anyway.

"Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune"

Congratulations, Microsoft!

There's an awful lot of uncertainty in this article. Reader be warned!

And it doesn’t expect another profit until the third quarter of this year. A confidence builder!

Users "are willing to pay a premium" for 500Mbps or 1Gbps, AT&T CEO says. Speak for yourself, Stephenson.

Crap artists? My Mom has my art work as her phone's wallpaper.

Honey? I just got a call back. My interview is with a phone bot tomorrow!

Technology could one day be used to help people who can’t talk to communicate.

Workaround: Users must remove any USB storage device and SD card and restart May 2019 Update installation.

Because life is beautiful.

If you think looking for a job is already daunting, anxiety-riddled, and unpleasant, just wait until the algorithms take over the hiring process.

If you think looking for a job is already daunting, anxiety-riddled, and unpleasant, just wait until the algorithms take over the hiring process.

The recent AI boom has had all sorts of weird and wonderful side effects as amateur tinkerers find ways to repurpose research from universities and tech companies.

Seven Dreamers, the Japanese company behind the AI-powered laundry-folding robot Laundroid, has filed for bankruptcy.

EDWARD CHANG KEEPS a cybernetic implant at his desk, which seems almost calculatedly cool. Chang is a lean, low-voiced neurosurgeon at UC San Francisco. The cybernetic implant—more properly a Brain-Computer Interface—is a floppy, translucent plastic square about the size of my hand, embedded with a 16-by-16 array of titanium dots, each about the size of a cupcake sprinkle.

So long as cryptocurrency exists, so too will the extraordinary lengths to which thieves will go to try to steal it. Unfortunately, that also includes preying on weak private keys, a method that has evidently made one crypto bandit filthy rich with millions in swiped Ethereum.

Forty-one percent of voice assistant users are concerned about trust, privacy and passive listening, according to a new report from Microsoft focused on consumer adoption of voice and digital assistants.