As the Cold War subsided, physicist Louis Branscombe feared that America’s economic and scientific supremacy was in jeopardy. He believed that the decline of scientific knowledge and critical thinking in American education could have disastrous consequences for the country. Students told PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” in 1986, “They don’t need to know a lot of … Read more
Earlier this year, Mark Austin, vice president of data science at AT&T, noted that some of the company’s developers had begun using the ChatGPT chatbot at work. When developers stalled, they asked ChatGPT to explain, fix, or refine their code. Mr. Austin said it was a game-changer. But since ChatGPT is a publicly available tool, … Read more
Summer is in full swing now, but along with vacation trips, campsites, and lazy days, severe weather has arrived in many parts of the country. If you live in an area prone to such conditions, it pays to be prepared. Here are some tips to help you use your technology during the big meteorological moments—sometimes, … Read more
After months of speculation and secrecy, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival app is here. The new app, Threads, was unveiled on Wednesday as a companion to Instagram, the popular photo-sharing network that Mr. Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, bought more than a decade ago. If Instagram executives get their way, Topics will also replace rival Twitter, with some … Read more
With the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX last fall, seven-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady made an urgent phone call. Contact Sina Nader, Head of Partnerships at FTX. The exchange’s employees were in the midst of a crisis meeting with its embattled founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Mr. Nader could not answer. “I never expected to … Read more
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that its new-vehicle sales rose 10 percent in the three months from April to June, thanks to strong truck demand. The automaker sold 531,662 vehicles, compared to 483,688 in the second quarter of last year, as sales of vans, delivery vans and heavy trucks increased 26 percent. The increase in … Read more
After two hours of hitting the play button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new real-time public conversations app, Mark Zuckerberg to publish That more than two million people have downloaded his latest creation. This was just the beginning. After another two hours, Five million people Download themes. By the time Mr. Zuckerberg, the CEO of … Read more
The FBI searched the home of cryptocurrency executive Jesse Powell in March as part of a criminal investigation into allegations that he hacked into a nonprofit he founded and stalked it online, three people with knowledge of the matter said. The investigation focused on the nonprofit’s claim that Mr. Powell, who also founded cryptocurrency exchange … Read more
The tech industry loves garage startup stories. From Hewlett-Packard to Google, tales of innovative companies turned giants have inspired generations of entrepreneurs. But the massive amounts of money and computing power needed for startups trying to make it happen with today’s cutting edge technology, and the artificial intelligence used in chatbots like ChatGPT and Google … Read more