Getty Images Finding the best gate for an aircraft is a surprisingly difficult task Next time you’re running at full tilt towards your airport gate, spare a thought for the airline staff who made sure that that gate was actually available. Gate allocation is a surprisingly complex task. “With 15 gates and 10 airplanes, there … Read more
From startups to industry giants like TikTok, companies are increasingly turning to AI to improve online sales. Digital advertising is moving five times faster than inflation in the U.S.; 71% faster than the costs of TV ads. Further, the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) in e-commerce has risen more than 60 percent over the past … Read more
Space Black MacBook Pro (M3 Max) running MacOS Sonoma wallpaper Jason Hiner/ZDNET At the time of this writing, Amazon’s October Prime Day event is only a few days away, and laptops are selling like hotcakes. I’ve had difficulty finding a good laptop because they’re either sold out or the discount is minimal. Luckily, I stumbled across a … Read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against TikTok claiming the company violated a new child privacy law in the state. It’s set to be the first test of Texas’ Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act since it went into effect just over a month ago. Under the law, parts of … Read more
Now that cooler fall temperatures are here, it’s a good time to start thinking about COVID-19 protection. You might consider getting updated COVID vaccines — including the new Novavax vaccine. And if you want to keep some test kits handy, you’re in luck: the federal government has started sending at-home COVID tests again. Using the COVIDTests.gov website, … Read more
And just like that, the strike was over. At least for now. The 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), who have been on strike since Tuesday, will reportedly go back to work Friday after an interim deal was reached, according to a new report from CNN. The news outlet cites two unnamed sources … Read more
It may not have the shine it once did, but Max (previously HBO Max) is still home to some of the best TV shows of the past 25 years, from The Sopranos and The Wire to Game of Thrones and The Leftovers. Max has gotten into the original content game too, with highly acclaimed series like Hacks, Station Eleven, and The Staircase (the … Read more
OpenAI is changing up ChatGPT‘s interface to look more like a digital notepad for projects. On Thursday, OpenAI announced a beta “canvas” feature for writing and coding. Canvas is different from the traditional chatbox interface, which makes it tedious to refine or develop ideas without the back and forth prompts. “Although the [ChatGPT] interface is … Read more
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The new Expedition, which is first being teased with a drone light show today in Texas, looks like it has only the left half of the Lincoln’s 48-inch pillar-to-pillar panoramic display, leaving behind just a 24-inch panel for the Expedition. You’re getting the same instrument cluster and navigation combo in front of the driver’s seat, … Read more
One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has left for Google. Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post on X that he’ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, to work on video generation technologies and “world simulators.” “I had an amazing two years … Read more