Technology

LLMs can no longer lurk, learn, and profit from 18 years of links and chatter.

Snap is planning to launch augmented-reality mirrors that allow shoppers in stores to instantly see how clothes look on them without physically trying them on, the company announced today. The mirrors are going to appear in some US Nike stores later this year, and in the Men’s Wearhouse in Paramus, […]

Matt Novak / Forbes:Twitter suspends Wired’s Dell Cameron for reporting on hack of Matt Walsh’s account; Wired says it does not believe Dell’s account violated Twitter’s policy  —  A reporter at Wired magazine has been banned from Twitter after he wrote about the fact that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh had […]

Offering plenty of advanced writing tools, the Kobo Elipsa 2E takes the fight to Amazon’s Kindle Scribe.

Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not so fast.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes With each devastating wildfire in the US West, officials consider new methods or regulations that might save homes or lives the next […]

Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC:Some software firms are facing large tax bills after US lawmakers failed to renew a provision letting companies to fully expense R&D costs in the year incurred  —  – Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development […]

The Station is simple enough — and smart enough, for that matter. But like a teenager’s bedroom, I’m afraid the smarthome may remain a cluttered mess.

“Firefly for Video” will generate sound effects and music, edit footage via text.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say. Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by […]