Revenge of the Mall Escalators
Escalator Mechanic For Pablo Katchadjian “For weeks I haven’t been able to focus on even the most trivial thing, because all I can think about is...
We Need To Talk About Competition
For years I thought myself in competition with another writer—a writer, I should say, whom I’d never met. I first became acquainted with this writer nearly...
7 Novels Featuring Literary Translators As Characters
Translators are an incredibly vital part of the literary ecosystem—not only because they carry books from one language into another, but also because they are generally...
Read This Action-Packed Korean Space Opera
Today’s pick is a Korean space opera about love, grief, and the struggle to find one’s place in the solar system. Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U....
ISP Must Unmask Alleged Pirates But Rightsholders Can’t ‘Harass’ Them
In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Internet providers, for failing to take action against pirating subscribers. One of the...
‘The Daily Show’ mocks the horniness of ChatGPT’s AI voice assistant
“The Daily Show” host Desi Lydic poked fun at GPT-4o. Source : ‘The Daily Show’ mocks the horniness of ChatGPT’s AI voice assistant
Sex education is under threat in the UK. What’s going on?
If there’s anything that undoubtedly unites everyone, it’s that we all had terrible sex education in school. Yet, some members of parliament in the United Kingdom...
I Found the Perfect Smart Light for My Kids Room
A good smart nightlight for a young kid’s rooms is tricky to find, but the Nanoleaf Umbra Cono portable lamp might just fit that bill perfectly....
LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI
Chang She, previously the VP of engineering at Tubi and a Cloudera veteran, has years of experience building data tooling and infrastructure. But when She began...
OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving. But what did he see?
Ilya Sutskever is leaving OpenAI, and we have questions. One in particular. Announcing the move on X on Tuesday night, the company’s chief scientist said he...
