Today, I’m talking with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He’s been in the Senate for a little more than a decade now, and he’s seen a lot in that time. We joke that Decoder is ultimately a show about org charts, but there’s a lot of truth to it. A CEO can upend their whole…
Here’s the TL;DR: Taylor Swift can probably make it to the Super Bowl to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, take on the San Francisco 49ers. It’ll just take some effort. Swift is scheduled to stop in Tokyo to perform her Eras Tour show from Feb. 7 through Feb. 10. The Super Bowl, meanwhile, is scheduled…
In 2021, Oleg Klimov, Vlad Guber and Oleg Kiyashko set out to co-create a platform, Refact.ai, that could convince more companies to embrace GenAI for coding by affording users more customization — and control — over the experience. Klimov and Kiyashko had worked together for nearly a decade building AI-based systems for image recognition and…
Police took a digital rendering of a suspect’s face, generated using DNA evidence, and ran it through a facial recognition system in a troubling incident reported for the first time by WIRED this week. The tactic came to light in a trove of hacked police records published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets….
After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage to a blade during its most recent landing and would not make another flight. Trump Went Through Twitter Withdrawal Images of Ingenuity’s last flight—its 72nd on Mars—which took place…
Blizzard team, As you may have read in Phil’s note, today is a challenging day as we say goodbye to some of our colleagues. This is a difficult process, but it is one that will best enable Blizzard and Xbox to deliver ambitious games for our players on more platforms and in more places than…
Ring will no longer facilitate police requests for footage from its cameras without a warrant. At least, not public ones. The Amazon-owned company announced on Wednesday that it is sunsetting Request for Assistance (RFA), a tool found in its Neighbours app. Introduced in 2021, RFA was designed to let police publicly request information such as…
As one might expect, lots of students who graduate with a doctorate in an AI-related field end up joining an AI company, whether a startup or Big Tech giant. According to Stanford’s 2021 Artificial Intelligence Index Report, the number of new AI PhD graduates in North America entering the AI industry post-graduation grew from 44.4%…
In 2024, social media will get small. Not small in influence, of course. As the US weathers an election likely to be both divisive and often divorced from reality, social media will again be a battleground for public opinion and perception. But the platforms on which these conversations will take place will be smaller in…
Image: Sony Pictures/Marvel Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for Madame Web, folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to whichever Spider-Man is swinging around now? io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was ‘All In’ on Moon Knight If you’ve watched the trailer, one of the questions…
