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☆ A high school band director was tased by cops at a football game after he refused orders to stop his musicians from playing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A band director ignored police requests to stop performing at the end of a football game. After he told his band to keep playing, police attempted to arrest him, the New York Post reported. The New York Post reported that Johnny Mims, the director of the Minor High School band, told musicians to keep playing after police instructed him to stop the music. The band was accompanying a high school football game between Minor High School and Jackson-Olin High School at the PD Jackson-Olin High School stadium in Alabama on September 14. AdvertisementAdvertisementHe refused police orders to stop, instead instructing his band to keep playing, the police department said in a statement issued on September 15.

Persons: Johnny Mims, Mims, Walter Gonsoulin Jr Organizations: New York Post, Service, The New York Post, Minor High, Minor High School, Jackson, Olin High School, Birmingham City, Institute of Electrical, Electronics Engineers Locations: Wall, Silicon, Alabama, Birmingham

☆ It’s Finally Time to Add Some Smart Tech to Your Dumb Home
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How Better Tech Could Save Lives in a World of Bigger, Faster, More Devastating Fires
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How Better Tech Could Save Lives in a World of Bigger, Faster, More Devastating Fires We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start. Here’s why we don’t yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday. A firefighting helicopter made a water drop while firefighters worked to combat the fire that devastated Lahaina, Hawaii, last month. patrick t. fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Persons: patrick Organizations: fallon, Agence France Locations: Lahaina, Hawaii

☆ Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she's being cut out of millions from her husband's estate in an act of 'financial elder abuse'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dianne Feinstein alleges that the trustees for her husband's estate have engaged in "financial elder abuse." Katherine Feinstein, who filed the suit on behalf of her mother, alleges that Feinstein is being cut out of millions. Katherine Feinstein, a former San Francisco judge, filed the suit on behalf of her mother. In a previous suit, Katherine Feinstein alleged that the trust was not moving quickly enough to sell the Stinson Beach house. Katherine Feinstein concedes that the trust has never denied one of Feinstein's requests, but characterizes this claim as "misleading."

Persons: Dianne Feinstein, Katherine Feinstein, Feinstein, Richard Blum's, Sen, Dianne Feinstein's, Feinstein's, Blum, Michael Klein, Marc Scholvinck, Verett Mims, Klein, Scholvinck, Steven P, Braccini Organizations: Service, San Francisco Chronicle, California Democrat, San Francisco, D.C, Stinson, Claremont Locations: Wall, Silicon, California, San Francisco, Washington, Kauai, Berkeley , California, Feinstein's

☆ Amazon Wants You to Pay With Your Palm. It’s a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How Netflix’s Algorithms and Tech Feed Its Success
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Exotic New Silicon-Based Speakers Are Coming to Next-Generation Earbuds
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Here’s How Twitter Could Become Irrelevant
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It’s Already Doing to Coders
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ These Pandemic-Era Habits Just Won’t Die
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Archer Aviation hires former acting FAA administrator
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Air taxi maker Archer Aviation (ACHR.N) said on Tuesday former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) acting administrator Billy Nolen had joined the company as chief safety officer. California-based Archer said in May it had completed final assembly of its first "Midnight" electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. In March, Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington withdrew his nomination to serve as FAA administrator after Republican criticism. Last week, the U.S. Transportation Department announced Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg was taking over as acting head of the FAA. She is also retaining her role as USDOT but focused on FAA, a department spokesperson said.

Persons: Billy Nolen, Archer, Billy, ” Adam Goldstein, Nolen, Phil Washington, Polly Trottenberg, Joe Biden, Katie Thomson, Bradley Mims, David Shepardson, Aishwarya Nair, Anil D'Silva, Emelia Organizations: Air, Archer Aviation, Aviation Administration, FAA, Reuters, Denver International, U.S . Transportation Department, Thomson Locations: California, Washington, Bengaluru

☆ Why America Isn’t Ready for the EV Takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The adoption of electric vehicles represents the biggest shift in our energy and transportation systems in more than a century—but it’s also the biggest shift in consumer electronics since the debut of the iPhone. On both counts, progress is accelerating in the U.S. And on both counts, we are far from where we need to be.

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☆ Ultralong-Range Electric Cars Are Arriving. Say Goodbye to Charging Stops.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Christopher Mims | Photographs Danielle Amy For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Says Chinese Jet Fighter Buzzed U.S. Reconnaissance Plane
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

What’s the Future of Identity Verification? The CEO of secure identity company Clear says in the future verifying your age, employment history, and even hotel booking will be much easier using biometrics. But that kind of tech, which can scan your face or fingerprint, raises lots of privacy questions. Clear CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker spoke with WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims at the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival. Zoe Thomas hosts.

Persons: Caryn Seidman, Becker, Christopher Mims, Zoe Thomas, AMOGH ALVA VAZ Organizations: Everything

☆ The ‘Killer Apps’ That Could Make Apple’s New Headset a Winner
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How Will We Know When Self-Driving Cars Are Safe? When They Can Handle the World’s Worst Drivers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Help! My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot!
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When we ask ChatGPT or another bot to draft a memo, email, or presentation, we think these artificial-intelligence assistants are doing our bidding. A growing body of research shows that they also can change our thinking—without our knowing. One of the latest studies in this vein, from researchers spread across the globe, found that when subjects were asked to use an AI to help them write an essay, that AI could nudge them to write an essay either for or against a particular view, depending on the bias of the algorithm. Performing this exercise also measurably influenced the subjects’ opinions on the topic, after the exercise.

☆ Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Evangeline GallagherIf you’ve ever published a blog, or posted something to Reddit, or shared content anywhere else on the open web, it’s very likely you have played a part in creating the latest generation of artificial intelligence. Google’s Bard chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft ’s OpenAI-powered version of Bing, and similar tools from the many startups now incorporating these and other AI language models—none of these clever automated writers could exist without the enormous body of text freely available on the web.

☆ The Latest AI Tech Wouldn’t Be Possible Without a Key Contributor: You
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ The Secret History of AI, and a Hint at What’s Next
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

If you’re worried that artificial intelligence will transform your job, insinuate itself into your daily routines, or lead to wars fought with lethal autonomous systems, you’re a little late—all of those things have already come to pass. The AI revolution is here. Recent developments like AI chatbots are important, but serve mostly to highlight that AI has been profoundly affecting our lives for decades—and will continue to for many more.

☆ The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the past few years, the market for smartphones has become a lot more like the one for used cars. Whereas many of us once upgraded our phones every two or three years, and treated old ones almost as if they were disposable, more than ever these phones are sticking around, and having a long afterlife. That could affect everything from who wins the smartphone wars (hint: Apple ) to how the dominant players in this industry make most of their profits (spoiler: not from selling hardware).

☆ Is Big Tech’s R&D Spending Actually Hurting Innovation in the U.S.?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The moment Noam Bardin , former chief executive of navigation app Waze, knew that life at a big company would be profoundly different from running a startup came soon after he sold his company to Google. “The first few weeks after the acquisition, we began dealing with the bewildering corporate bureaucracy,” says Mr. Bardin. “What seems natural at a corporation—multiple approvers and meetings for each decision—is completely alien in the startup environment: make quick decisions, change them quickly if you are wrong.”

☆ Artificial Intelligence Is Teaching Us New, Surprising Things About the Human Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The world has been learning an awful lot about artificial intelligence lately, thanks to the arrival of eerily human-like chatbots. Less noticed, but just as important: Researchers are learning a great deal about us – with the help of AI.

☆ A TikTok Ban May Be Just the Beginning
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

What if, at the dawn of Japan’s entry into the U.S. auto market, the U.S. government had simply banned the import of vehicles from that country? How different would America—and the global economy—be today? Such a scenario isn’t so different from what the U.S. is doing now to tech built by companies in China, first hardware and now software.

☆ Pain In the Tech Industry Is Beginning to Hit the Rest of Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Weeks of grim news have made it clear that we’re in a new phase of the tech downturn, where companies’ problems are reverberating through the industry and spilling out into the wider economy. There are plenty of reasons to expect the damage will get worse.

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