Mike Pearl
By Mike Pearl
When the clocks change for Daylight Saving Time, and why we do it at all
Can't we just...not change our clocks?
By Mike Pearl
Alibaba's AI video generator just dunked on Sora by making the Sora lady sing
Alibaba calls it 'EMO,' and it sure is.
By Mike Pearl
AI 'writers' are mostly worthless right now. But that won't last.
Sure, an AI can write a decent book...if you painstakingly force it to write exactly what you want.
By Mike Pearl
How the AI boom is informed by the Industrial Revolution
Is another revolution against tech coming?
By Mike Pearl
ChatGPT freaked out, generating gibberish for many users
ChatGPT said it may have been suffering from "jumbled inceptions," "affected parts blindness," and "higher perplexity stoked in modules," whatever that means.
By Mike Pearl
Google announces Gemini 1.5, a flashy upgrade to its flagship AI model
It can be prompted with truly massive amounts of text.
By Mike Pearl
ChatGPT will now remember things about you
It appears users will have the feature turned on by default
By Mike Pearl
Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
"We feel horrible about it," the CEO told Mashable.
By Mike Pearl
A Jimmy Buffett-parodying horror movie called 'Murdaritaville' exists now
The man has been dead less than a year.
By Mike Pearl
Sony just drove its concept car Afeela with a DualSense controller at CES 2024
It's like something out of a video game.
By Mike Pearl
Survey: AI experts' minds were blown by last year's pace of AI development
The new findings also suggest that "accelerationists" may outnumber "doomers."
By Mike Pearl
Google just killed cookies for a fraction of users, but you can kill yours right now
Don't want to wait in line?
By Mike Pearl
How people are using Mickey Mouse in his post-copyright era
Is making Mickey dirty really all that subversive?
By Mike Pearl
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is looking for dark photons. But... why?
Particles are being collided in the hopes of finding something related to dark matter.
By Mike Pearl
How to kick off your new year with a view of the Quadrantid meteor shower
If it's the night of Jan. 3-4, look up.
By Mike Pearl
Here are 2024's public domain works, and how you can use them
Old art — yes including Mickey Mouse — is all of our rightful inheritance.
By Mike Pearl
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision is essentially a done deal
The $69 billion merger is really happening, thanks to a UK regulatory decision.
By Mike Pearl
OpenAI just revealed DALL-E 3, its newest image generator
It can add (non-gibberish) text to images.
By Mike Pearl
Where to watch Northwestern vs Duke livestream
How to watch the action if you don't have pay TV.
By Mike Pearl
Where to watch Georgia Tech vs Ole Miss livestream
Where to stream the action if you don't have pay TV.
By Mike Pearl
Where to watch Notre Dame vs Central Michigan livestream
How to watch the action without pay TV.
By Mike Pearl
Google Home just massively expanded its capabilities
You can automate in all sorts of (sometimes weird) new ways.
By Mike Pearl