The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…Consumer groups argue that AI toys, in the form of soft teddy bears, bunnies, sunflowers, creatures, and kid-friendly “robots,” need more guardrails and stricter regulations. FoloToy’s Kumma bear, powered by…
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How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
…At a time when Turkey’s most famous figures were traveling to Europe for cosmetic surgeries, Dr. Mustafa Tuncer, who attended the Medica trade show in Düsseldorf in 1999, adopted a radical…
Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems
…Public pushback and regulation, she says, is crucial. “The industry has to be challenged to design smarter and simplify things,” she says.
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…The primary criticism around the idea of regulating AI seems to have to do with innovation and our rivalry with China. The idea that regulation will throttle American innovation, we will lose…
It Sure Seems Like These Instagram Ads Want You to Do Cocaine
…James Bond film, touted as a superior straw for the snorting of cacao. (A supposed European club craze for raw cacao “snuff” in the late 2010s led one enterprising Florida man to…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…European regulators and privacy advocates in the US questioned its legality as early as 2011, and there were concerns over whether users had meaningfully consented to the creation of biometric data. In…
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
…For those who aren't aware, Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, signed a bill recently regulating data centers. Essentially, the idea would be not to pass on utility costs of…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…network, and compete with the likes of Alphabet and Meta, which are facing regulatory scrutiny in the European Union and California. One way it could do this is through the Fire TV…
The 12 Best Movies to Stream This Month
…However, one sexual awakening later and Bella is a runaway on a whistle-stop tour of Europe with lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), running into remnants of her (or her body’s…
The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month
…Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell), a notorious womanizer and Conservative politician, finds himself regularly butting heads—both personally and professionally—with cutthroat television executive Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant). The two battle…