Category: Technology

Reesa Teesa posted nearly eight hours of video to TikTok in her quest to tell the story of a messy marriage and divorce she claimed to have had with a “pathological liar.” Millions of views on each of her 50 videos suggest people are listening from start to finish. On a platform known for dances […]

There’s a total solar eclipse passing through the US on April 8 this year, and natural-wonder seekers, take note: It’ll be the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous US until 2044, NASA says.  A total solar eclipse happens when the moon momentarily blocks the sun’s face, resulting in a very cool yet very […]

Nvidia, the kingpin of chips powering artificial intelligence, on Wednesday released quarterly financial results that reinforced how the company has become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence boom, and it said demand for its products would fuel continued sales growth. The Silicon Valley chip maker has been on an extraordinary rise over […]

Dina Genkina: Hi. I’m Dina Genkina for IEEE Spectrum‘s Fixing the Future. Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beeps, including AI, Change, and Robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org\newsletters to subscribe. Today, […]

In her delightfully cheeky Verizon Super Bowl commercial, Beyoncé swore to do one thing: Break the internet. As the commercial demonstrated, she could not—at least not in the literal sense. Instead, after the commercial ended, she did something else: She hacked the internet, dropping two new songs, “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages,” the former […]

We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created […]

It’s a tough time for publishers and brands, as AI companies scrape their content to train their models, Big Tech controls search traffic, and LLMs spit out articles that are rewritten versions of the original — often without attribution. Now, adtech pioneers who helped build online advertising unicorns like DoubleClick and AppNexus want to give […]