Technology
Column: The George Carlin auto-generated comedy special is everything that’s wrong with AI right now
I knew it was going to be bad. By the time I sat down to watch the thing, much of the internet was already furious that a “state-of-the-art-entertainment AI”...
Internet trolls flooded UC Irvine chat groups with gore. Then students mounted a counterattack
At the start of a new quarter, many UC Irvine students join communities on the instant messaging platform Discord to swap notes, chat about local restaurants and form interest...
Meet the Netflix executive responsible for your recommendations
LOS GATOS, Calif. — There’s no red carpet for people who make sure Netflix provides an appealing user experience; no Emmy or Oscar for an app that gives you...
All is lost in San Francisco? City loyalists take issue with naysayers. Data may back them up
SAN FRANCISCO — Far from the palm trees of Miami or Austin’s taco trucks, Catalin Voss has headquartered his literacy start-up between a cannabis club and pawn shop in the...
Opinion: I bought a flip phone and tried to get by without my smartphone. Here’s how that went
About three months ago, I bought a flip phone and turned off my smartphone for good.I am part of a trend — interest in old-fashioned flip phones is up...
Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it
This time in 2023, the world was in thrall to the rise of OpenAI’s dazzling chatbot. ChatGPT was metastasizing like a fungal infection, amassing tens of millions of users...
George Carlin’s daughter slams AI-generated comedy special: ‘No machine will ever replace his genius’
Kelly Carlin, the daughter of comedian George Carlin, is slamming an AI-generated comedy special mimicking the voice of her late father. On Tuesday, it appeared that the comedian, who...
Twitch is laying off 500 workers. Its CEO is upset the news leaked early
While expressing his regret that 500 workers would be laid off, the chief executive of the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch chided his staff in a memo for leaking the...
