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The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta

So, inevitably, we talk a lot more, and meta-ly, about language, words, meaning—though Sloan doesn’t think it was inevitable that language would be the breakthrough AI technology. Could’ve...

10 best disaster movies of all time, ranked | Tech Reader

Chaos and catastrophes have often been the subject of some of the most thrilling films ever made, with the disaster subgenre producing iconic blockbusters that had cinemas packed...

Nintendo is finally opening a second US store

It's taken Nintendo two decades, but the company is finally ready to open a second store in the US. The new location in San Francisco’s Union Square is...

5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other...

Waymo robotaxi attacked and set on fire in San Francisco | Tech Reader

A Waymo self-driving car was set upon by vandals in San Francisco on Saturday evening. According to footage and eyewitness reports of the incident, the attackers graffitied the car...

The Story You’ve Heard About Cities and the Drug Crisis Is Wrong

When journalists on the fashion beat accept conventional wisdom as fact and don’t look too closely at whether the trends they describe are real, the worst that happens...

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Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Wei worked on OpenAI’s o3 and...

Video Games Weekly: Who put all these videos in my games?

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Tech Reader. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is...

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and it cost me...