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I was one of the internet's first influencers. AI just killed the whole category " and created something better
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (317+ words) About 28 years ago, I was reporting'a story from my desk at Wired titled "The Hot New Medium Is " Email." This was an unusually personal report because I was partly its subject " a creator of a then-novel phenomenon: the viral internet…...
A dating expert says ghosting and quiet quitting are the same problem at their core, and corporate life has more to learn from romance than it admits
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (519+ words) Dating and corporate America have more to do with each other than we think, and companies may be able to take lessons from the dating world to improve relationships in the workplace, one expert says." Lakshmi Rengarajan has had experience…...
The Smartphone's days are numbered. Meet the device that could come next
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (869+ words) An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump. Within the next ten years, our phones will no longer be our primary personal device. That's pretty universally agreed upon in Silicon Valley among tech executives, including those at Apple, the…...
We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (302+ words) Meta controlled the layer beneath Snap: the social graph, the feed, the audience. Once you own that layer, everything built on top bends toward you. We've spent more than two decades in tech. We've learned to recognize when a pattern…...
Meet the startups installing tiny data centers in people's homes to reduce strain on the grid
1+ week, 1+ day ago (906+ words) Amidst the anxiety and disdain for data center growth, startups see an opportunity by designing mini data centers to install in homes that have less of a financial burden on residents, as well as a potentially lower ecological footprint than…...
Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center
1+ week, 1+ day ago (602+ words) Gone are the days of the Cold War, of nuclear anxiety, of those old animated "Duck and Cover" PSAs we were shown in school: Americans are now more opposed to an AI data center in their neighborhood than a nuclear…...
Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it
1+ week, 2+ day ago (646+ words) Anthropic's Claude is telling people to go to sleep and users can't figure out why. A quick scan of Reddit reveals that hundreds of people have had the same issue dating back months'and as recently as Wednesday. Claude's sleep demands…...
America's data centers are thirsty. Rural towns are paying the price'from tanked water pressure to stolen desert groundwater
1+ week, 3+ day ago (670+ words) In the first week of May, two data center developments, one in Arizona and another in Georgia, were caught taking public water without authorization. In both cases, data center developers consumed water they were expressly prohibited from taking, in communities…...
After nearly a year of delays, Trump Mobile's CEO says the gold-plated Trump phone will begin shipping to buyers this week
1+ week, 3+ day ago (375+ words) Trump Mobile's flashy golden phone is releasing its first units nearly a year after the device was initially announced. The CEO of Trump Mobile, Pat O'Brien, confirmed to USA Today in an email that the company will begin shipping its…...
Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits
1+ week, 5+ day ago (266+ words) A year after followers of President Donald Trump put down $100 deposits for a Trump-branded gold phone, not one has shipped, and a recent change in the fine print has some worried they may never arrive. Last month, the company behind…...