Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Appear to Have Very Different Views About Deep Fakes
Demand Progress Action, the advocacy group behind the “fake zuck” deepfake originally uploaded the video, which digitally mimics both Zuckerberg’s appearance and voice, originally tried to upload the video to…
Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for…
Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy
As internet shutdowns, platform blocking, and content filtering become increasingly common levers for authoritarian control around the world, Iran has presented an especially dramatic case study on the economic impact…
XRAI Glass Wants to Subtitle Life for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Users
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The Crispr Baby Scientist Is Back. Here’s What He’s Doing Next
Some scientists and ethicists think He deserves a chance to prove that he’s capable of producing scientifically valid and ethically sound work. “His case is publicly known enough that the…
The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack, where a person is a server in…
Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield
Living among mines then has a well-documented deleterious effect on a country’s psychological health. Research shows that just the knowledge that you are in an area contaminated with explosives can lead to…
It’s Time to Focus on Reproductive Longevity Research
Women’s ovaries age prematurely, at more than twice the rate of other organs. Why that is remains a mystery to scientists, making it one of the most important unanswered questions…
Vans Can (and Should) Go Electric
For far too long, commercial vehicles remained an underserved sector of the electric vehicle market. Despite making up over 23 million vehicles worldwide and 82 percent of vehicle emissions, the…
Q&A With ‘Cyclettes’ Author and Designer Tree Abraham
Tree Abraham works as an art director in the publishing industry, so she considers herself a person who primarily designs books and not a person who writes them. However, in…