The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
My personal term for the inexact nature of the messy, fuzzy world was muzzy. But then, in 1980, I acquired an Ohio Scientific desktop computer and...
These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
As soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger. Ruiter, a...
A Manhunt in India Left 27 Million People Without Mobile Internet
Manish Kumar runs a car rental service in the city of Jalandhar in India’s northern state of Punjab. For the past two weeks, his business has...
In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
Stone, a signatory of the letter, says he does not agree with everything in it, and is not personally concerned about existential dangers. But he says advances...
One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube
Predictably, it was harder than Whitener thought. It took him two years to persuade AT&T, which hadn’t made a tube since 1988 but still owned Western...
The Trans-American Race to Build Chargers for Electric Trucks
More than is typical even for technology entrepreneurs, Neha Palmer is in the business of predicting the future. TeraWatt Infrastructure, a startup unicorn based in San...
TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud
The pandemic sent the livestream sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “zero Covid” policies hit the brick-and-mortar retail industry hard. Stuck at home, sales...
Now That ChatGPT Is Plugged In, Things Could Get Weird
A number of open source projects such as LangChain and LLamaIndex are also exploring ways of building applications using the capabilities provided by large language models. The launch...
ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It
Ecosia, which uses Bing results and invests its profits in environmental projects, is considering potential partners to develop its own chatbot. Its leaders would be eager to...
11 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
ChatGPT and tools like it have made AI available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back on almost any topic imaginable....