Margaret Atwood Is Ready to Let It Rip
A whole book? No. I changed “Freeforall” to make it more succinct. But to redo a novel, no. I don’t think you need to redo any of your novels, by…
The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret
The algorithm’s impact on Serbia’s Roma community has been dramatic. Ahmetović says his sister has also had her welfare payments cut since the system was introduced, as have several of…
Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ions flowing through space—is a decades-old enigma. Scientists know it…
How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare
Another variable, “presumed partner,” is used to determine whether someone has a concealed relationship, since single people receive more benefits. This involves searching data for connections between welfare recipients and…
China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving
“The high-context nature of Chinese language used to create hurdles in natural language processing,” says Thomas Qitong Cao, a PhD candidate at Stanford University who studies political behaviour and the…
What’s Up With M.O.D.O.K. in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’?
The actual process of getting M.O.D.O.K. onscreen was just as ridiculous. To make the character, Stoll had to shoot a run-through of the script while donning a facial motion-capture apparatus,…
Meta is planning a fresh round of job cuts, report claims
Meta is planning to embark on another round of job cuts that could see “thousands” of positions go, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday. The efficiency cuts would follow…
This Dell gaming laptop with an RTX 3050 is surprisingly affordable
We spend all day looking for laptop deals, yet sometimes even we’re surprised at how cheap gaming laptop deals can get. Take this Dell G15 deal, for instance. It’s down…
Apple could soon put an M3 chip in its worst laptop
Apple’s MacBook lineup is full of great laptops, but the 13-inch MacBook Pro really doesn’t feel like it belongs. Yet a new report claims Apple will update that device with…
Grab these Nintendo 3DS games before the eShop closes
While the Nintendo 3DS had a rocky launch, the handheld system recovered gracefully and ended up having one of the best game lineups of any Nintendo system. Many of these…