technology
40 pieces tagged “technology”, newest first.
AI for Journalistic Publicity? Caveat Emptor
From Jim Acosta's stunt with a dead student's avatar to Dave Rubin's counterfeit stand-in, Artificial Intelligence is the compliant genie that might grant wishes — but at a terrible cost.
Summer Reading List in Major Newspapers Full of Books That Don't Exist
Americans can learn a valuable lesson from a recent flub involving an erroneous advertisement for made-up books that utilized modern technology.
Stealing Faces and Voices
No one is safe in the new technological frontier known as Artificial Intelligence. Just ask Scarlett Johansson.
Deepfake Porn Exploitation
Now that Taylor Swift is a victim, will new laws be implemented?
Smartphones Are Dumb
They distract from life, they contribute to poor mental health outcomes, and they hurt academics.
AI: Poised to Poison Our Politics
The power of artificial intelligence, coupled with its progressive bias, bodes ill for politics generally and Republicans in particular.
The Dangers of AI
As a chilling incident with law professor Jonathan Turley showed, there is much work to do before artificial intelligence can earn even a modicum of our trust.
The Mobile Phone at 50
It's been half a century since the first portable phone call was made on a New York City street, and cellphones have since come to dominate our lives.
What Is ChatGPT, and Is It Woke?
A new artificial intelligence can write complete essays for you, but not about certain topics or theses.
Parler and the Big Tech Backlash
The upstart social media platform offers a censorship-free alternative to totalitarian Twitter.
Amazon Censors a Black Conservative
Shelby Steele's new documentary debunks a popular leftist narrative, so he must be silenced.
Google's Dry Run
Did Tuesday's "blip" reveal a list of conservative sites blacklisted for suppression?
A Virtual Educational Failure
Lockdowns changed education for millions of students, and not always in a good way.
Doxxing for Dollars
The nation's two most powerful papers have decided to attack the little guy.
Google Is Evil
The tech giant's monopoly is an ever-growing threat to free political speech.
Complicating the Obvious
Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications or murky instructions, that is something else.
Tethered to Technology — Escaping the IT Trap
Increasingly, we often expect each other to be smartphone-available nearly 24/7. Or we act as if this is the case. Over time, this can lead to feelings of exhaustion and a sense of entrapment. Time to just focus on our families, our worship, our hobbies, and so on without endless "work" interruption seems to be harder to come by. And even if it only takes five minutes to read and respond to an email or text, this kind of thing puts us back into "work track" mentally and emotionally.
Free Your Eyes From the Shackles of the Shutter
Massachusetts native Paul Theroux has roamed the world for decades, visiting countless countries and drawing on his experiences in dozens of published novels, short stories, and volumes of travel writing. He has been everywhere, or as close to everywhere as one man can manage in a peripatetic career. What Theroux doesn't know about how to travel probably isn't worth knowing. Here's one lesson he has gleaned from a lifetime of roving: The best traveling is done without a camera.