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Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules
On January 24, Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40. Normally that number is an inexorable milestone of middle age. Indeed, in…
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Your Medical Data Is Code Blue
Until last November, I had never heard of Perry Johnson and Associates. But they had heard of me. In fact,…
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In Defense of AI Hallucinations
No one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there’s…
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Joe Biden Has a Secret Weapon Against Killer AI. It’s Bureaucrats
As ChatGPT’s first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President…
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Here’s a New Plan to Rein In the Gilded Tech Bros
When I first heard in 2013 that Barack Obama had chosen Tom Wheeler to head the crucial tech regulator that…
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What Techno-Billionaire Marc Andreessen Missed In His Techno-Optimism Manifesto
As a general rule, any essay that includes the one-sentence paragraph “I am here to bring the good news” is…
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The Curse of the Creator Economy
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the…
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The Las Vegas Sphere Makes Virtual Reality a Full-Body Experience
The best virtual reality experience I’ve had this year was not with the $500 Quest 3 or the $3,500 Apple…
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Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having…
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Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
Researchers and futurists have been talking for decades about the day when intelligent software agents will act as personal assistants,…
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