Anthropic’s announcement of Claude 3.7 Sonnet notwithstanding, the breakneck pace of major AI announcements seemed to slow down through February. That gave us some time […]
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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum, The Institute, or IEEE. […]
How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt Key Industries in Mexico
The US government has imposed tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada. The measure promoted by Donald Trump threatens the free […]
Canada-owned Ludia plans to add 50 new jobs and make acquisitions
Under new Canadian management, the mobile game studio Ludia plans to add 50 new jobs this year and possibly make some acquisitions. That’s what Jimmy […]
Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a […]
How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth
Zhang exhaled. She had recently quit her stable job as a product manager at a major tech company to start her own business, and she […]
Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded free app […]
How AI, which makes intelligence ubiquitous and practically free, could upend the economy, which is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive (Azeem Azhar/Bloomberg)
Azeem Azhar / Bloomberg: How AI, which makes intelligence ubiquitous and practically free, could upend the economy, which is built on the idea that expertise […]
Why Are Cassette And CD Players So Big Now?
The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller […]
How to Show Hidden Files on a Mac
Apple has its reasons for hiding away certain files from the average Mac user; after all, it’s difficult to break something you can’t see. But […]