Amazon Reels in $12.7 Billion on Prime Day
Amazon’s Prime Day sales reached a record high this year, bringing in 6.1% more revenue than during its two-day event a year ago. Shoppers spent a total of $12.7 billion,…
Companies Think Their Idiot Customers Will Accidentally Cancel Their Subscriptions if It’s Too Easy
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent proposal to require that companies offer customers easy one-click options to cancel subscriptions might seem like a no-brainer, something unequivocally good for consumers. Not according…
Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda
Advertisement Advertisement Twitter has shifted its definition of restricted hate speech many times; its enforcement of those rules has likewise varied. Musk’s multiple rounds of layoffs gutting Twitter’s trust and…
Critics Thoroughly Unimpressed With AI-Reimagined Mona Lisa
Artificial intelligence has received backlash in recent months as it enters the creative spheres including stepping on the toes of writers and artists. AI has sparked lawsuits and won art…
Everything Google Announced About AI, Bard, and PaLM 2 at I/O 2023
Before Google’s latest I/O event could even begin, the tech giant was already trying to stake a claim for its new AI. As music artist Dan Deacon played trippy, chip…
From Square-Wheeled Bicycles to V8-Powered Drills, These Were April’s Coolest and Weirdest Gadgets
April’s often a tough month to swallow, starting with that awful holiday, April Fools, and then countless teases of warmer Summer temperatures before thermometers plunge and remind us it’s still…
Tesla Employees Have Been Sharing and Meme-ing Your Private Car Videos
Former Tesla employees are confessing to having shared, laughed at, played back in slow motion, and just generally had a great time watching, the videos that were taken with customers’…
ChatGPT and Dall-E Should Watermark Their Results
Photo: J. David Ake (AP) Getty Images Wants AI to Stop Copying Them Off English Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show…
Adobe Says Its New ‘Firefly’ AI Image Generator Doesn’t Steal Other People’s Art
On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image…
The Ayaneo Geek Is the Closest Thing We Have to a Steam Deck Pro
Handheld gaming PCs have been around for longer than their recent boom might indicate, even if the Steam Deck blew the doors off of the market by making a model…