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    Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize

    When the San Francisco start-up OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT online chatbot late last year, millions were wowed by the humanlike way it answered questions,...

    Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

    Chris Caputo stood on the tarmac at Burlington International Airport in Vermont in early October and looked to the clouds in the distance. He...

    Look, Up in the Sky! Amazon’s Drones Are Delivering Cans of Soup!

    Exactly a decade ago, Amazon revealed a program that aimed to revolutionize shopping and shipping. Drones launched from a central hub would waft through...

    Gen Z Beatles Fans Come Together on TikTok

    Eloise Smith, 23, posted a reaction video on TikTok immediately after listening to “Now and Then,” the Beatles song released on Thursday.“Can’t believe it’s...

    Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Nears Finish as Closing Arguments Are Made

    Sam Bankman Fried, the onetime cryptocurrency mogul, built his FTX crypto exchange into a “pyramid of deceit” resting on a “foundation of lies and...

    Those Promotions Promising a ‘Free’ iPhone? It Isn’t Free.

    There’s no such thing as a free iPhone.But phone carriers would like you to believe otherwise. Over the last few weeks, AT&T, Verizon and...

    Executive Order on A.I. Tries to Balance Technology’s Potential and Peril

    How do you regulate something that has the potential to both help and harm people, that touches every sector of the economy and that...

    Biden to Issue First Regulations on Artificial Intelligence Systems

    President Biden will issue an executive order on Monday outlining the federal government’s first regulations on artificial intelligence systems. They include requirements that the...

    Did A.I. Write Product Reviews? Gannett Says No.

    When several articles were published last week on Reviewed, a USA Today-owned website that recommends products, something seemed off. No one at Reviewed recognized...

    Blue-Collar Workers Are the New Social Media Stars

    It was another busy day for the crew of the Rest-Ashoar, a lobster fishing boat that works the waters off the rocky coast of...

    U.S. Tries New Tack on Russian Disinformation: Pre-Empting It

    An article that appeared in August on an international news outlet, Pressenza, recycled a false Russian claim that the West was looting religious relics...

    Inside Google’s Plan to Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search

    For years, Google watched with increasing concern as Apple improved its search technology, not knowing whether its longtime partner and sometimes competitor would eventually...

    Using Your Phone to Visit the Library

    Public libraries have lent e-books to patrons for more than 20 years, but many have widened their electronic offerings with digital audiobooks, magazines, comics,...

    Stop, Before You Close This Tab (or Any Others) …

    Whatever the inventors intended us to do with tabs, they probably couldn’t have imagined how emotionally attached to our tabs we would become. A...

    Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93

    Martin Goetz, who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received...

    The Race to Avert Quantum Computing Threat With New Encryption Standards

    They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the world of privacy and...