Cormac McCarthy

George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast

The estate of the comedian George Carlin reached a settlement on Monday with the makers of a podcast who had said they had...

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes

For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers.But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington...

Sticks. And the People Who Love Them.

Stick Nation was born last summer, during a hiking trip to Arches National Park in Utah.Boone Hogg, Logan Jugler and some friends were...

Tesla’s Sales Fell in First Quarter as Competition Intensified

Tesla, which has been accustomed to brisk growth, reported a drop in car sales during the first three months of the year as...

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

In recent months, Google has raced to settle a backlog of lawsuits ahead of major antitrust showdowns with the Justice Department later this...

How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class

David Autor seems an unlikely A.I. optimist. The labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is best known for his in-depth studies...

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking...

Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82

Daniel C. Lynch, a computer network engineer whose exhibitions on networking equipment helped accelerate the commercialization of the internet in the 1980s and...

Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?

These days, the song brings in about $1,200 per month, enough to pay his rent, Casey told me, with what sounded like a...

AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked

The telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer...

San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer? He Might Be Both.

But Mr. Tan’s passion, as it is for a growing number of tech industry leaders, is San Francisco politics. He is one of...

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices

First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built...

4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks

The recent cyberattack on the billing and payment colossus Change Healthcare revealed just how serious the vulnerabilities are throughout the U.S. health care...

Master the Essentials of Blockchain and Crypto for $20 Through 4/2

TL;DR: The Fundamentals of Blockchain, Bitcoin & Crypto is a collection of 28...

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