Podcast: Ring Is Just Getting Started
This week we start with Jason’s follow up to Ring launching its ‘Search Party’ feature. It turns out, according to […]
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which
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AI Will Never Be Conscious
In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be
A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why.
Scientists have resolved a longstanding mystery about the Great Unconformity, a huge gap in the geological record that shows up
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Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party
This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents.
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Meta’s AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of ‘Spectral Labor’
Last week, Business Insider reported on a Meta patent describing a system that would simulate a user’s social media activity
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Podcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)
In this week’s interview, Sam is joined by Harlo Holmes. Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer at Freedom of
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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to
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How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines
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At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we have a very special edition of the newsletter packed with everything I
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