An increasing number of recommendation apps are popping up to serve niche audiences.
Why it matters: Groups of friends — driven by the fear of missing out on the best of the best — are flocking to siloed apps and services for advice on what to consume.
Cybersecurity professionals heading out for Labor Day weekend can't rest too easy: Ransomware hackers love to strike while they're away.
Why it matters: Only the most cyber-aware companies typically have tools in place to monitor their networks for suspicious activity 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
Why it matters: Robinhood shares jumped on the news, as it became the latest company to disentangle from the former FTX CEO.
"Doomsday" seed vaults are becoming an increasingly popular tool in the race to insure global crop and agricultural production against the damaging impacts of climate change.
Why it matters: In an era of simultaneous climate disasters, long-term solutions that bolster the future of food supply are gaining momentum among governments, scientists and small-scale farmers.
"Hi, mom. Hi, dad." The face in the video was mine, and the voice was mine, too. But I hadn't spoken the words my parents heard.
What's happening: The video was the product of a company named HeyGen, which allows anyone to create a personal "deepfake" — an AI-generated video double capable of reciting virtually anything you type into a text field.
Nintendo's next big game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, plays like a throwback to the Mario series' earliest games, but has the energy of the newest ones.
Why it matters: Wonder — set for an Oct. 20 release — is Nintendo's flagship game for the fall, as it brings back one of its most-popular styles of game: a side-scrolling Mario adventure, the first new one in 11 years.
Meta on Thursday released a new tool designed to spot racial and gender bias within computer vision systems.
Why it matters: Many computer vision models have shown systematic bias against women and people of color. The hope is that improved tools will enable developers to better detect shortcomings and address them.
Nearly 20% of the top 1000 websites in the world are blocking crawler bots that gather web data for AI services, according to new data from Originality.AI, an AI content detector.
Why it matters: In the absence of clear legal or regulatory rules governing AI's use of copyrighted material, websites big and small are taking matters into their own hands.
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