A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.
A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. X: @recurrented , @mikeisaac , @franklinleonard , @stev...
Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICEBlock, and more
Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”
A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company
Great reporting from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social here, including a a conversation with James Cameron, the man who came up with Terminator and Skynet, and who is now on the board of an...
At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived. Bluesky: @wired.com , @manishakrishnan , @r...
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating
The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine. — This ...
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...
Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed
Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.