Microsoft bets big on ChatGPT creator in race to dominate AI
Microsoft is now poised to challenge competitors like Google, Amazon and Apple with a technological advantage the company has not possessed for more...
Screens stole our focus? Medieval monks were distracted too
12 Jan 2023 10:30 AMKreiner, a historian at the University of Georgia, organizes the book around the various sources of distraction that a Christian monk had to face,...
Border trouble: Why India and China fight in the Himalayas
12 Jan 2023 3:08 AMFrom New Delhi’s perspective, the Chinese military aggression on the disputed border is the price India is paying for joining hands with the Western...
In memoriam: Willard Gaylin, a pioneer in bioethics, is dead at 97
11 Jan 2023 1:30 PMIn 1969 Dr. Gaylin, a psychiatrist, and Daniel Callahan started the Hastings Center, devoted to the study of bioethics, in Hastings-on-Hudson, north...
The hottest Gen Z gadget: A 20-year-old digital camera
10 Jan 2023 1:30 PMTabarez documented prom night with an Olympus FE-230, a 7.1-megapixel, silver digital camera made in 2007 and previously owned by his mother.
In memoriam: Nate Thayer, bold reporter who interviewed Pol Pot
9 Jan 2023 1:30 PMThayer interviewed Pol Pot in October 1997 after months of clandestine meetings with Khmer Rouge guerrillas, whom Pol Pot led.
Making America the opposite of great
7 Jan 2023 5:30 AMThis time, there has been no significant dispute about policy — Kevin McCarthy and his opponents agree on key policy issues like investigating Hunter...
Call the Ghostwriter When the writing demands talent and discretion
7 Jan 2023 1:31 AMGhostwriters channel someone else’s voice — often, someone else’s very recognizable voice — and construct with it a book that has shape and texture,...