Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype
Vocal fry, aka “creaky voice,” is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the […]
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Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
Perhaps you remember Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, the 34-year-old twin brothers we profiled earlier this week. Although they had the
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Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its
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Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and its CEO
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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the
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Cell phone users can’t stop incriminating themselves
“What kind of doctor was dr. pepper,” Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins once asked a search engine. (Sadly, there
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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
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Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world’s first ‘AI art’ museum be any different?
Dataland will open at the Frank Gehry designed The Grand LA. RDNE Stock project/Pexels The “world first museum of AI
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during cross-examination in
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
In recent years, many overworked doctors have turned to so-called AI medical scribes to help automatically summarize patient conversations, diagnoses,
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