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‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?
This is “The Interview.” I’m Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and this week, I’m speaking with Whitney Wolfe Herd. She’s the C.E.O. and founder of Bumble. Whitney Wolfe Herd was one of the co-founders of the OG dating app Tinder. Swipe...
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Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media
An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people’s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies...
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Sonos CEO: ‘We All Feel Really Terrible’ About the Bungled App Update
It is really tough, I think, to be in any environment where you've let your customers down when you're customer-centric. And if anything, Sonos is customer-centric. It's doubly hard when you work and you don't understand the relative priority...
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AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they’re here to stay
AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past...
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The everyday ways climate change is already making our lives worse
When you think of threats from climate change, you probably envision flooding and wind from supercharged hurricanes, or unprecedented...
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Hippotherapy Goes High Tech With Robotic “Horse”
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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The 2006 Zuckerberg Quote at the Center of Meta’s Antitrust Trial
In September 2006, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, described what made his social network special.“Facebook is about real connections to actual friends,” he wrote in a company post.Two decades later, that description is at the center of...
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AI-Generated ‘Slop’ Threatens Internet Ecosystem, Researchers Warn – Slashdot
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Researchers are sounding alarms about the proliferation of AI-generated content -- dubbed "slop" -- that may be overwhelming the internet's human-created material. Fil Menczer, distinguished professor of informatics at Indiana University, who has studied social bots since the...
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Two porn sites investigated for suspected age check failings
Ofcom has launched investigations into two pornographic websites it believes may be falling foul of the UK's newly introduced child safety rules.The regulator said Itai Tech Ltd - which operates a so-called "nudifying" site - and Score Internet Group...
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Bad Apple, the Rise of the A.I. Empire and Italian Brain Rot
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions.kevin rooseWell, Casey, have...
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Judge rules US deportations to South Sudan violate court order
A federal judge has said the deportation of eight men to South Sudan "unquestionably" violated his order that migrants...