Microsoft Previews Azure Remote Rendering Support On Quest 2 & Pro
As part of Meta and Microsoft’s ongoing partnership, a public preview is taking place for Azure Remote Rendering on Quest 2 and Pro. During Connect 2022...
Porto Digital Is the Quixotic Tech Hub That Actually Worked
Cristiano Lincoln Mattos, CEO and cofounder at Tempest, which also spun out of Cesar, attributes the very existence of his company to the ecosystem’s ability to...
The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
In June 2021, GitHub announced Copilot, a kind of auto-complete for computer code powered by OpenAI’s text-generation technology. It provided an early glimpse of the impressive...
Reddit Is Already on the Rebound
Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month. They were roused by 6:30 am...
Instagram Is Removing Sex-Positive Accounts Without Warning
On the morning of June 22, Karl Verboten tried to log into the Instagram account for Klub Verboten, his London kink space and fortnightly party, but...
Wagner Mutiny Puts Russia’s Military Bloggers on a Razor’s Edge
On other parts of the app, silence spread through normally vocal accounts. That applied to more conventional propagandists, such as Margarita Simonyan, editor of state TV...
Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
When Elon Musk arrived at VivaTech, a leading technology conference in France, his presence had an immediate effect, as event founder Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe...
How to Tackle AI—and Cheating—in the Classroom
This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt at the end of a school...