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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player [MUSIC PLAYING] RICHARD WATERS: And when he first talked about this, he had a human dressed up as a robot dancing on stage. And I think a lot of people thought it was a joke. MATT WEBB: What will we see at Tesla in the next…
As the managing director who brought smartphone vendor Xiaomi to India in 2014, Manu Kumar Jain was the face of the Chinese-owned company. He even danced in its ad campaigns. Under Jain, Xiaomi’s rise was swift. It jumped from 6 per cent of India’s smartphone market in 2016 to 27 per cent three years later,…
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First we buy a gadget. For the next few years, the manufacturer releases an occasional software update that fixes bugs and protects us from vulnerabilities. One day, those updates stop coming. According to conventional wisdom, that’s the time to buy a new device. But what if it isn’t? The truth is, upgrades needn’t be so…
For decades, much of the federal government’s security-clearance-granting process has relied on techniques that emerged in the mid-twentieth century. “It’s very manual,” said Evan Lesser, president of ClearanceJobs, a website posting, jobs, news and advice for positions that involve security clearances. “Driving around in cars to meet people. It’s very antiquated and takes up a…
Consumer prices are increasing at the fastest clip in about 40 years, climbing 8.3 percent in April compared with a year earlier. As popular anger about the rising costs mounts, a chorus of critics have been arguing that the sky-high inflation figure is actually being undercounted. In YouTube videos, on conservative talk shows and in…
Newcomers to San Francisco who are looking for signs of a futuristic tech metropolis tend to come away disappointed. Yes, there is a robot barista making coffee in the airport, but other evidence is harder to come by. The city’s apathy towards its own tech sector is exemplified by low regard for ride-hailing apps. Not…
In January 2020, as doctors struggled to treat the first coronavirus patients, data scientists and biochemists at BenevolentAI turned to artificial intelligence to hunt for a drug to help. The researchers had only a few clues about how the new virus operated. They fed them to their algorithm and set it to work searching 50mn…
OK, start me off gently. What is a DAO? DAO stands for decentralized autonomous organization. That’s a mouthful. Sure is. What does it mean? A DAO (pronounced dow) is a new kind of organizational structure, built with blockchain technology, that is often described as a sort of crypto co-op. (Or, alternatively, as a “financial flash…
This is part of “The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto,” a mega-F.A.Q. about cryptocurrency and its offshoots. Kevin Roose, a Times technology columnist, is answering some of the most frequently asked questions he gets about DAOs, DeFi, web3 and other crypto concepts. OK, I know NFT stands for nonfungible token. But what does it actually mean?…