… The 20 Settings You Need to Change on Your iPhone …

  APR 1, 2025 Tweak these settings to get the most out of your feature-packed iPhone. Apple’s software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024, … Continue reading … The 20 Settings You Need to Change on Your iPhone …

… The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey …

The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending censorship forever, new background on the elon saga, and the death of social media as we know it Bluesky was launched to become the open source protocol layer for … Continue reading … The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey …

… The risks of AI are real but manageable …

The world has learned a lot about handling problems caused by breakthrough innovations. The risks created by artificial intelligence can seem overwhelming. What happens to people who lose their jobs to an intelligent machine? Could AI affect the results of an election? What if a future AI decides it doesn’t need humans anymore and wants … Continue reading … The risks of AI are real but manageable …

… The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn’t Dead Yet …

Nvidia’s A100 is a powerful tool for AI, but high demand has made the hardware tough to obtain.NVIDIA   GPUs may dominate, but CPUs could be perfect for smaller AI models It’s time to give the humble CPU another crack at AI. That’s the conclusion reached by a small but increasingly vocal group of AI … Continue reading … The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn’t Dead Yet …

… What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? …

It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult. Maggie Chiang for Quanta Magazine Remember IBM’s Watson, the AI Jeopardy! champion? A 2010 promotionproclaimed, “Watson understands natural language with all its ambiguity and complexity.” However, as we saw when Watson subsequently failed … Continue reading … What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? …

… Genetics and AI …

How two technologies can benefit the world’s poorest. by Bill Gates People often ask me which technologies have the most potential to change our lives in the decades ahead. AI is always near the top of the list. It can help us make sense of complex biological systems—like the microbiome in the human gut —and … Continue reading … Genetics and AI …