• ZDNet

    This AI-powered ring wraps ChatGPT around your finger. You can pre-order it now

    Have you ever wanted AI at the tip of your fingers? One company is promising to do just that –- sort of. VTouch is launching a Kickstarter campaign for WIZPR, its AI-powered smart ring that lets wearers talk to their favorite AI assistant by whispering into the device. The WIZPR ring is meant to wake automatically when you bring your hand to your mouth; there is no need to use a wake word or press any buttons. Built to respond to close-range speech, the WIZPR ring is designed to listen to...

  • Real life Skynet? Controversial robot powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT can now have real-time conversations

    A new robot has independent conversational skills like a human, spurring on flashbacks to Skynet from the sci-fi film, Terminator. OpenAI created the robot called Figure 01.

    • CNET

    This New 3D Printer Can Handle Exotic Filaments, and You Can Save $140 on It Right Now

    Qidi Tech has launched its newest 3D printer, the Q1 Pro, and if you act fast, you can get early bird pricing on it.

  • Portland Art Museum's "Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks" Unboxes the Future of Sneakers

    Get comfy, folks; the future of sneakers is heady as all hell. by Corbin Smith On March 30th, the Portland Art Museum will raise the curtain on Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, a new exhibit about the various futures imaginable for the world’s most versatile sporting footwear. Our city is the touring exhibition's first stop following its premiere at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. This feels appropriate since...

  • Wikifunctions: where we are now, and what you can do

    Think of a website that can answer questions such as “how do I spell this in Morse code?”, “how do you write this as a Roman numeral?”, or “is this word a palindrome?”, maintained by a growing comm

  • to seize power over nation states in future pandemics

    MATT RIDLEY: The WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to Covid-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China's bidding.

  • AI Can Now Forget Copyrighted and Other Material

    Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed what they believe is the first machine unlearning method applied to image-based generative AI. This method offers the ability to look under the hood and actively block and remove any violent images or copyrighted works without losing the rest of the information in the model.

  • You Can Now Take a Photography Course on Spotify

    Spotify is best-known for being the world's most popular music streaming service but it is adding video learning courses to its app -- including photography courses. [Read More]

  • You can now get an Amazon Echo for under £20

    Whether you want to expand your smart home or take your first step into smart technology, this deal on the Echo Pop should not be missed.  The Amazon Echo Pop is currently just £19.99 in the Amazon Spring Deal Days sale, which is a massive 56% reduction off the £44.99 RRP. Available in a choice of four colours including Charcoal, Lavender Bloom, Midnight Teal and Glacier White, the Echo Pop is a compact Bluetooth speaker that sits at the entry level of Amazon’s Echo range and naturally...

  • "This Is A Power Grab": Our Perilous, Magnificent, Perilous Future

    "This Is A Power Grab": Our Perilous, Magnificent, Perilous Future Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, The establishment narrative in the United States is pathologically negative, with its centerpiece being the climate “crisis.” A generation of America’s youth has been indoctrinated to believe the planet’s ecosystems are on the brink of catastrophic collapse, bringing with it chaos and doom. As if that weren’t enough, Americans are perpetually inundated with panic over...

  • AI forecaster can predict the future better than humans

    An AI forecaster based on the language model GPT-4 can predict the outcome of future events more accurately than single humans. In some cases, it can even outperform the “wisdom of crowds”

  • Some Threads Users Can Now Share Their Posts to the Fediverse

    The post-Twitter world is fractured among a handful of potential alternate social networks—which is exciting, but also annoying. Things got slightly more integrated last week. That's because Threads, the Twitter alternative owned by Meta, made it possible for users of Mastodon and other services to follow Threads accounts that opt in to the Fediverse.