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Silicon Valley’s Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone

Sophie Caldwell

Inside a former horse stable in the San Francisco neighborhood of SoMa, a wave of gentle chirps emerged from small, blinking devices pinned to the chests of employees at a…

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Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?

Sophie Caldwell

First, they are programmed for specific tasks. (Examples that OpenAI created include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests nonalcoholic drink recipes.) Second, the bots can pull…

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Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader

Sophie Caldwell

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.More than 60 years before Kindles, Nooks, iPads…

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Personalized GPTs Are Here, F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition, and Mayhem at Apefest

Sophie Caldwell

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | AmazonWarning: this episode contains some explicit language.OpenAI has unveiled a new way to build custom chatbots. Kevin shows off a few that…

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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Is ‘Doing Good’ After Minor Stroke

Sophie Caldwell

When Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, suffered a dizzy spell on Wednesday, he took a precautionary trip to the hospital and learned that he had suffered a minor stroke.…

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Can A.I. and Lasers Cure Our Smartphone Addiction?

Sophie Caldwell

An aqua blue light appeared on my outstretched palm, showing a menu. Slowly, I circled my wrist to scroll, pressing an index finger and thumb together in a pinching motion…