Results day has a time-worn rhythm, full of annual tropes: local newspaper pictures of envelope-clutching girls jumping in the air in threes and fours, columnists complaining that exams have gotten far too easy, and the same five or six...
WEEKLY MARKET REPORT The Australian share market enjoyed a strong end to the week, with the ASX 200 jumping 0.6% on Friday as health stocks, technology and the gold sector...
Since Sen. Kamala Harris was announced as the Democratic vice presidential pick, there’s been a surge in misinformation about her. | Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Some conservatives were quick to spread conspiracy theories when Joe Biden...
When news broke that a mistaken match from a face recognition system had led Detroit police to arrest Robert Williams for a crime he didn’t commit, it was late June, and the country was already in upheaval over the...
The TikTok situation is just the 2020 version of that lesson: weirder, sudden, and wrapped up in the “Can he do that?” questions that surround Trump’s whims (in this case, the answer is kind of). Along for the ride...
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350 million players worldwide. | Epic Games It’s Epic versus Apple in an antitrust battle … royale. The company that owns Fortnite is making an in-your-face challenge to Apple: We’re not going...
In July, St. Louis was still scrambling to raise $500,000 to buy machinery that would allow him to test the fabric used in masks. Meanwhile, he refers inquiries about mask testing to a company in Nevada—the lone private laboratory...
In the comments, some people were angrily insisting that they were not bots, and that their indignation was both human and sincere. Fair enough! But some of those people, and many others, were also in the comments accusing Ellen...
Companies are adapting their artificial intelligence products with the hope they can help schools reopen amid the pandemic. | George Frey/Getty Images This fall, AI could be watching students social distance and checking their masks. ...
OpenAI co-founder and chair Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and TechCrunch news editor Frederic Lardinois during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. | Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Computers are getting closer to passing the...
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