Generative AI may make the 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess,’ but that isn’t stopping AI startups from getting into the political game.
Category: Travel
This app lets cafes and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom
Thanks to bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s, folks in the U.S. have become accustomed to enjoying free public restroom access pretty much anywhere their travels take them. Depending on the town or city, however, free-use bathrooms aren’t necessarily plentiful — or […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posts statement supporting Palestinians and Muslims in tech
Altman’s commentary also follows a controversy surrounding another member of the OpenAI team, Tal Broda, Head of Research Platform.
Stanford’s mobile ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry
The results are impressive and show that a simple training recipe enables the system to learn complex mobile manipulation tasks.
Ranking every 2023 game I played (all 85 of them) | Kaser Focus
Rachel Kaser puts a bow on 2023 by ranking every single game she played throughout the year — and there were a lot of them.
Microsoft adds Copilot key to Windows 11
Microsoft said the introduction of the Copilot AI key “marks the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades.”
Perplexity AI raises $74M to take on Google and Microsoft Bing with AI-native search
Perplexity, which has now raised a total of $100 million, plans to use the capital to build out its AI-driven search engine offering.
Ford is raising the price of its entry-level F-150 Lightning by $5,000
Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup was one of the few models to retain the full $7,500 US tax credit for 2024, but a lot of that advantage is about to be negated. The price of 2024 models is set to rise from $49,995 to $54,995 […]
NLRB accuses SpaceX of illegally firing workers for criticizing Elon Musk
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a complaint against SpaceX, accusing it of unlawfully firing eight employees involved in writing a letter that called Elon Musk’s behavior on social media “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment.” According to the filing, the company […]
Xbox Game Pass adds Resident Evil, Assassin’s Creed titles to begin 2024
Xbox Game Pass adds several horror-themed games in its first update of 2024, including Resident Evil 2 Remake and Those Who Remain.
