A group of well-known AI ethicists have written a counterpoint to this week's controversial letter asking for a six-month "pause" on AI development, criticizing it for a focus on hypothetical future t...
[photo1]Megan FarokhmaneshThe future of the metaverse looks shakier than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully--like Facebook-turned-Meta and Disney--are facing th...
Vaclav Smil reminds us that despite the onslaught of popular techno-pundits claiming otherwise, immense and rapid progress in one realm does not mean immense and rapid progress in all realms.Let's jus...
Every so often I receive one of these bizarre little computers that Asus has done in collaboration with someone or other, and my senses are ever so slightly overwhelmed. They made one with an animated...
No one likes ads, especially when they get in the way of what you're actually trying to do. I doubt a single Roku user wants to see obtrusive banner ads while they're looking for something to watch (u...
Gwyneth Paltrow (Photo by JEFF SWINGER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.I felt that acquiescing to a false claim compromised my integrity. I a...
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)* Ron DeSantis announces that he won't allow Trump to be extradited to New York. Welcome to the phase of American decline where Florida is basically Somalia. [Politic...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images)Disillusioned with the legal system? Trust you aren't alone. But when speaking to a law student at an event who expressed a similar senti...
We're an impatient bunch here at TechCrunch+, so while we await tidied quarterly venture reports from major startup databases, we're also running our own queries to get early looks at the state of the...
Have you ever opened your freezer to grab one small item and caused something of a food avalanche? It doesn't have to be like this; there is a better way. You can organize your freezer easily and effi...
The line for the "Many Dimensions of Kirby" panel at GDC was so long that it stretched from the doors of the conference room, wrapped around the third floor of the main hall of the Moscone Center, and...
[photo1]What's in a label? Turns out a lot, actually. Illnesses come in all types of flavors and symptoms -- figuring out how to alleviate, let alone cure some of them, can require companies to spend ...
[photo1]It's opening day and already Major League Baseball has struck out.It's a story as old as time: major sports league tries to trademark a bunch of city names only to be schooled on the internet ...
Here at Lifehacker, we know scams. We know they're elaborate and sophisticated. We know that scams cost victims their time, money, and private data, and can leave them feeling like complete and total ...
Cottage cheese is important to me. Without it, I would devolve into a hangry, pouty pile of woman, and I would definitely have a hard time meeting my daily protein goal--a goal I am still getting used...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)It's been a busy week in the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. And ye...
[photo1][photo2]Olga V. Mack is the VP at LexisNexis and CEO of Parley Pro, a next-generation contract management company th...
A U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York threw out a lawsuit against Meta this week that had been simmering for a year and a half.The suit, filed in late 2021 by now-shuttered ...
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[photo1]What With Weed Being Legal, Time To Criminalize The Internet: TikTok and VPNs could be the next big thing getting people criminal records.Go Bad Or Go Home: C...