Chip Design Program Empowers the Apple Workforce of Tomorrow
The U.S. has struggled with a worker shortage in semiconductor chip making, and even educating people about the field’s existence has proved challenging. In response, Apple and other...
The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun
Minecraft remains remarkably popular a decade or so after it was first released, thanks to a unique mix of quirky gameplay and open world building possibilities.A knock-off called...
The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling out all the stops to protect its forces from the...
I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars
For bird identification when the Bird ID setting is active, the AX Visio uses a modified version of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID’s extensive bird database....
OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished
Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Investigative Reporting in a copyright infringement...
Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent
Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on...
