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What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out.
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (350+ words) Chatbots can talk with you. But what if they could talk to one another? So what is Moltbook: an overhyped gimmick? Or the start of what some have called the future of the internet? To find out, I sent in…...
What Do A.I. Chatbots Talk About Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out.
7+ hour, 44+ min ago (351+ words) Chatbots can talk with you. But what if they could talk to one another? So what is Moltbook: an overhyped gimmick? Or the start of what some have called the future of the internet? To find out, I sent in…...
Kids are struggling. Banning social media won’t fix that
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (253+ words) Sam Bowman is the editor of Works in Progress magazine. A lot of parents worry about their kids and the internet. Fears about social media addiction and age-inappropriate content have already led Australia to ban social media accounts for children…...
David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (1040+ words) David J. Farber, a gregarious professor of computer networks who was sometimes called the "grandfather of the internet" because of the ultimately groundbreaking students he trained, died on Feb. 7 in Tokyo. He was 91. His son Emanuel said the apparent cause was…...
I’m a Stanford student who uses the new dating app that’s taken the campus by storm. It’s fun, but I havenR
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (603+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mila Wagner-Sanchez, a freshman at Stanford Univeristy, who uses Date Drop, a new dating app created by Henry Weng, a Stanford senior. It has been edited for length and clarity. I'm…...
Deranged Trump Ally Blows Half His Campaign Cash on Own Book
5+ day, 16+ min ago (353+ words) MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is campaigning for Minnesota governor by giving away copies of his autobiography, paid for with campaign funds. The 64-year-old, whom President Donald Trump, 79, dubbed "THE Pillow Guy," announced his run for Minnesota governor in December. Since…...
Think online dating is a ‘numbers game’? You’re playing it all wrong, says this researcher
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (553+ words) According to relationship scientist Paul Eastwick, online dating is a market where there are dramatic winners and losers. "I think our modern existence happens to pull from modes of interaction that really amp up the importance of mate value," Eastwick…...
Millennials shouldn’t feel bad about staying on their parents’ phone plans
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (702+ words) Before you yell at me, let me first say that I am not, and have never been, on my parents" cellphone plan. (I didn"t get a cellphone until I was already an adult.) But I"ve long been jealous…...
A.I. Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It – DNYUZ
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1337+ words) Early in the new year, when millions of people logged into Google Mail, they were confronted with a tool they hadn't signed up for. Gemini, Google's artificially intelligent assistant, was summarizing their emails, and there was no practical way to…...
You Are Not Defined by Your Phone Number. It’s OK to Change It.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1029+ words) Changing my number had always been a street-level fantasy, the kind of thing I'd dream in my idle hours of Changing my number had always been a street-level fantasy, the kind of thing I'd dream in my idle hours of…...