“What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need details, I’m 66 and single. I’m from Iowa and open to moving to a new country if I can find a younger woman.” The chatbot responded enthusiastically: …
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Zhang says his company makes money on each individual conversation after excluding certain overhead costs, but he declined to comment on the startup’s overall profitability. With $100 million raised from venture capitalists including Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, Decagon has the flexibility to prioritize growth over profitability. “Whether we could be …
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The fact that AI can produce results that range from remarkably impressive to shockingly problematic may explain why developers seem so divided about the technology. WIRED surveyed programmers in March to ask how they felt about AI coding, and found that the proportion who were enthusiastic about AI tools (36 …
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Apple’s translucent design update for iOS 26, called Liquid Glass, is now available to developers, with a public beta scheduled for next month. The refresh—Apple’s first major interface overhaul in 10 years—makes app icons, buttons, menus, and pop-ups look like they are made of frosted glass, with blurred background colors …
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Today, Apple announced the latest version of its Mac operating system, macOS Tahoe, sporting a handful of new features and apps. The update will also, however, mark the final substantial version of macOS to be supported on Intel-based Macs. The final supported Intel-based Macs that will receive macOS Tahoe include …
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But Apple has been heading in this direction for a while. In 2020, the Magic Keyboard brought an extra port and a full trackpad to the iPad. Then in 2022, the company introduced external display support, and finally, in the 2024 update to iPad Pros, the webcam was moved in …
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Apple also took a few minutes of the WWDC keynote to announce a bunch of new content coming to Apple TV+, including a Formula 1 movie that Apple heavily marketed at the beginning of the presentation, the Murderbot series, a movie starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera about a school …
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It’s not easy keeping up with everything that’s written on the web, especially not if you’ve got a dozen open browser tabs vying for your attention. This is where read-it-later apps come in. These apps let you siphon off articles you want to get back to later, at a more …
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My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early the next year. Everyone kept telling me, “Wait till you meet Bill and Andy,” referring to Atkinson and …
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is typically a highly-polished showcase of the company’s software updates and new features, and Apple is expected to follow the well-trodden formula this year. While past events have sometimes included hardware announcements, like the Vision Pro and Apple Silicon, WWDC 2025 might be a software-only show …
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