The quality of Google’s search engine results has “gotten worse” due to rampant spam, according to a study out of Germany. The findings were based on a year-long analysis of 7,392 product review queries — such as “best headphones” and “best alphabet toys” — on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, according to experts at Leipzig University,…
Agnieszka Pilat is not your typical artist. She doesn’t use brushes, pencils or even her own hands to create her artwork. Instead, she uses robots — specifically, robot dogs made by Boston Dynamics The robot dogs that paint like humans Pilat, who was born in Poland and now lives in the U.S., spent months teaching three of…
Billionaire Elon Musk took to social media to express his agreement with a fellow tech leader’s prediction that there will be about 1 billion humanoid robots on Earth in two decades. Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to concur with the prediction made by David Holz, the founder of artificial intelligence (AI) research lab Midjourney. Holz said in…
Google boss Sundar Pichai identified “durable cost savings” among the tech giant’s key goals in 2024 – even after the company spooked some employees by teeing up renewed rounds of layoffs This month, Google has already confirmed layoffs across multiple parts of its empire – including several hundred job cuts on its ad sales team…
Who wants to be a millionaire? A New Yorker is sharing his four secrets to success — perseverance, endless curiosity, innovation, and balance — after inventing an app at just 14 years old propelled him to the millionaire’s club. “Success is rarely an overnight phenomenon — it’s the result of consistent effort over time,” entrepreneur…
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a Texas lawsuit accusing the Facebook and Instagram parent of using facial recognition technology without customer consent. A Texas state appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision requiring Zuckerberg to give testimony in the case. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2022, accused Meta of “secretly…
Western television and anime localizers have recently come under fire for injecting “woke” language into English dubs not present in the original work, prompting some companies to implement artificial intelligence (AI) as a way of limiting human intervention or to remove them entirely. The use of AI in the industry is already well underway. On…
Vasectomies and condoms have traditionally been the only ways men can use contraception, but a Los Angeles-based health startup wants to change that. NEXT Life Sciences is pioneering Plan A, a procedure in which men pay a 10-minute visit to a doctor to receive an injection of a hydrogel into the vas deferens — the…
A controversial proposal to build a billionaire-backed city in California is trying to win over locals with a package of lavish benefits – including $400 million in “down payment assistance” for homebuyers and a guarantee of 15,000 new jobs. As The Post has reported, California Forever — the firm behind nearly $1 billion in secretive…
Samsung Electronics latest premium smartphones, unveiled on Wednesday, will have multiple AI functions, such as simultaneous translation of foreign language phone calls, in the company’s latest push to challenge Apple. Apple topped Samsung in 2023 smartphone shipments, according to data provider International Data Corporation, dethroning Samsung for the first time since 2010 as demand for premium devices — a segment Apple dominates…
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