Society

In a new book, a trio of Stanford professors ask tough questions about how and whether big tech is truly "making the world a better place."

In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It doesn’t need to be this way.

Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any company decide to build the future anymore?

"They're really cute until you remember that they are actually weapons platforms." "Stan Winston Studio designed and built thirty full-body mechanical penguin puppets -- ten each of three different penguin species -- and six mechanical heads and suits."

"The Metaverse," everybody's new favorite tech vision after "the Singularity," has recently had its inflection moment when Zuck decided to rename his shitty website from Faceb

How NyQuil, the over-the-counter cold medicine of choice for millions of sniffling people, innovated by combining a bunch of drugs together in a novel way.

Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.

A Q+A with Shanna Swan on the alarming rise in human reproductive problems.

Sometimes it's difficult to get across to people "the scale" part when we talk about the impossibility of content moderation at scale. It's massive. And this is why whenever there's a content moderation decision that you...

As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts pick the content you need and they deliver it to you. You have little say in the matter. There was one newspaper in my … Continue reading Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corporations!

Are you looking for an AI voice generator for your videos and podcasts? Read this post now to find out about the best ones!

Turn text into natural-sounding speech in 220+ voices across 40+ languages and variants with an API powered by Google’s machine learning technology.

Generate realistic speech from text (TTS) mp3 using online AI Voice Generator and best Text to Speech voices from Google, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft.

From an AI voice generator to voice cloning to deep fake voice technology, time to rethink the position of the real human voice.

Custom AI Voice Generator. Create realistic text-to-speech AI voices with Resemble's voice cloning software. Real-time API's and 44kHz audio.

There are many reasons why Millennials might be opting out of intense careers — and burnout is an important one.

Evidence from animal remains shows Norse seafarers settled on the islands centuries before Portuguese explorers

It's inconvenient, it's bad for your back, and it will tear your household apart.

This is almost never true. For just about any issue, behavior, company or movement, the vast majority of people are neither. They might be unaware, they might be unconcerned, they might have a diff…

Long ago a person dear to me disappeared for what would become eight years. When this happened I was given comfort and perspective by his maternal grandfather, a professor of history whose study co…

Voting with a capital “V” is fraught. It happens rarely, it’s fairly permanent and thus momentous. We bring identity and media and politics into a swirl, spending billions of dollars to create some…

Also: why do so many people feel lost in their 20s?

From, “Pay attention, I want you to buy what I made.” to… “I’ve been paying attention, and I think I can offer you what you want.”

You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet.

Zombies are a big part of pop culture, but songs about them are not—except for one performed by the King of Calypso himself, Harry Belafonte.

Texas has recently passed a series of abhorrent laws about voting rights, mask mandates and women’s reproductive freedom.

There are a few useful phrases that allow one instantly to classify a statement. For example, if any piece of popular health advice contains the word "toxins," you can probably disregard it. Other than, "avoid ingesting them."...