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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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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ 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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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ 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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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ 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.
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☆ 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
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 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.
☆ Annoying Password Rules Actually Make Us Less Secure
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Does your company network or a frequently visited website force you to come up with a new password because it has declared your old one is past its expiration date? If you find that annoying, you’re not alone. What’s worse: It’s actually bad for cybersecurity, say researchers.
☆ Electric Vehicles Are Shattering the Barrier to Adoption that Could Matter Most
  + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
For car buyers, a new reality is setting in: You don’t necessarily have to pay more to go electric. The automobile industry may never be the same. There are some qualifiers, but the bottom line is a potentially momentous change.
☆ For Chat-Based AI, We Are All Once Again Tech Companies’ Guinea Pigs
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The companies touting new chat-based artificial-intelligence systems are running a massive experiment—and we are the test subjects. In this experiment, Microsoft , OpenAI and others are rolling out on the internet an alien intelligence that no one really understands, which has been granted the ability to influence our assessment of what’s true in the world.
☆ AI Becomes Silicon Valley’s Next Buzzy Bandwagon as Crypto Boom Fizzles
  + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The new artificial-intelligence tools getting widespread attention for spitting out text, images and computer code are also generating something else: talk of the next technology bubble. Technologists broadly agree that the so-called generative AI that powers systems like ChatGPT has the potential to change how we live and work, despite the technology’s clear flaws. But some investors, chief executives and engineers see signs of froth that remind them of the crypto boom that recently fizzled.
☆ The AI Boom That Could Make Google and Microsoft Even More Powerful
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Seeing the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbots touted in dueling announcements this past week by Microsoft and Google drives home two major takeaways. First, the feeling of “wow, this definitely could change everything.” And second, the realization that for chat-based search and related AI technologies to have an impact, we’re going to have to put a lot of faith in them and the companies they come from. When AI is delivering answers, and not just information for us to base decisions on, we’re going to have to trust it much more deeply than we have before. This new generation of chat-based search engines are better described as “answer engines” that can, in a sense, “show their work” by giving links to the webpages they deliver and summarize. But for an answer engine to have real utility, we’re going to have to trust it enough, most of the time, that we accept those answers at face value.
☆ AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Grzegorz Rutkowski has studied the great masters of texture and light—Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and his ability to mimic their techniques has made him an in-demand painter of fantastical beasts and landscapes for the videogame industry. But these days, instead of devoting all his time to painting in his sun-dappled studio near the picturesque medieval square in the town of Pieńsk, Poland, he’s spending ever more of it on Zoom calls, talking to lawyers, artists and others about the strange reason he is suddenly far more famous than he ever thought possible.
☆ The Decline of the Nice-to-Have Economy
  + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Over the past decade, startups delivered Americans conveniences of every description, and more recently, pandemic lockdowns supercharged our spending on them. Amid the longest boom in tech so far, investors were eager to subsidize the losses of these startups—and by extension, subsidize our consumption of their products—on the logic that they would grow into their oversize valuations.
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