It would be far too dramatic to extrapolate from the disastrous week that journalism itself is dying. The New York Times is healthy. Thanks to good management and demographically vigorous readerships, the Boston Globe and Minneapolis Star Tribune carry on. Cable, network and local TV news still toss off profits. […]
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Tech News Today: Taylor Swift AI images spark outrage, Microsoft Teams back up after outage, and more | Technology News
The past couple of days have seen some major developments in the tech world, from controversial AI-generated images going viral to rumours about the next Nintendo console. Here are 5 key tech stories you need to know. 01 Taylor Swift AI images cause chaos on X Highly offensive and explicit […]
News industry off to brutal 2024 start as mass layoffs devastate publishers, raising questions about the future of journalism
CNN — The news industry is enduring a brutal start to the new year, with outlets large and small across the country hemorrhaging reporting staff as legacy business models that kept much of the industry afloat for decades collapse in plain sight. The rapid contraction, coming even as the presidential election cycle heats up and public […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for ‘open-source’ AGI raises concerns | Technology News
It is now confirmed that Meta has joined the fray to make Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) a reality. Earlier, San Francisco-based AI start-up OpenAI had outlined its plans for how all of its AI projects are leading up to AGI. For the uninitiated, AGI is several steps above what we […]
Variety.com Was the No. 1 Entertainment Business News Site of 2023
Variety.com was the highest-ranking entertainment business news site every single month in 2023. The online home of legacy brand and weekly entertainment business magazine Variety scored record-breaking traffic last year. An average of 29.1 million unique users visited the site each month in 2023 — and Variety reached a bigger […]
Best Samsung smartphones to consider ahead of Unpacked 2024 | Technology News
Samsung Unpacked 2024 is just around the corner, where, the South Korean tech brand will showcase the latest smartphone innovations. At the same time, a lot of flagship Galaxy S series smartphones have gotten a lot more affordable than ever before. Here are some of the best Galaxy S series […]
CES 2024 Live Blog: News, Gadgets, and Photos From Tech’s Big Show
Much like Bosch, which is working on a hydrogen car engine, Hyundai has announced that it too is doubling down on hydrogen, presenting what it calls a blueprint for a hydrogen energy ecosystem. Hyundai has the world’s highest market share in hydrogen-powered vehicle sales, though that isn’t nearly as impressive […]
There was some good climate news in 2023. Really.
As federal regulations go, preventing emissions of a combustible, planet-warming superpolllutant that isn’t even producing anything of economic value is truly about the least we can ask of an industry. But it’s a step forward that promises to eliminate the warming equivalent of about 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon […]