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Parmy Olson

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Musk is said to be scouting for investment targets in the field of AI. AP

Elon Musk might have found his big post-Twitter fascination

4 min read . 01 Mar 2023

Facebook and Instagram have also taken to selling ID-verified badges (Photo: Reuters)

Facebook may fare better with Twitter’s ‘blue tick’ brain wave

3 min read . 22 Feb 2023

Chatbot technology may not have had all the safety checks we need istockphoto

The OpenAI vs. Google AI race has opened up Pandora’s bots

4 min read . 21 Feb 2023

People going through layoffs are in wide-ranging positions, most of which are uncomfortable in one way or another (Photo: iStock)

Layoffs alone won’t solve tech’s problems

4 min read . 07 Feb 2023

If regulators find that Instagram has been steering British kids toward material encouraging suicide, Mark Zuckerberg could be behind bars.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg could soon face the threat of prison

4 min read . 19 Jan 2023

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 04: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 04, 2023 in New York City. U.S. stocks rose at the start of the second day of trading in 2023. The stock market opened awaiting an economic data report on the U.S. economy amid the Federal Reserve�s rate hikes to attempt to lower inflation. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

Predicting the stock market movement from facial expression of traders

5 min read . 17 Jan 2023

To date, about 500 people have been put in cryogenic stasis after legal death, with the majority of them in the US (Photo: Tomorrow Biostasis GmbH)

Want to avoid death? Maybe cryonics isn't crazy

5 min read . 08 Jan 2023

The Google and Facebook advertising duopoly is shifting to a market where Amazon.com and potentially Apple are big threats.

Big crisis of Big Tech means innovation curve had plateaued

4 min read . 05 Jan 2023

Apple’s decision to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, similar to the way Alphabet’s Google has allowed non-Google app marketplaces on Android-run devices, also would give consumers a wider array of app choices. (Bloomberg)

Apple’s iPhone may gain from the legal shake-up it’s getting

3 min read . 22 Dec 2022

Musk seems on track right now to go “full Pizza Gate”, which refers to a QAnon fabrication about world leaders running a child sex trafficking ring. We seem to be watching him drag himself and Twitter down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. (AFP)

Twitter must not get dragged down a dangerous rabbit hole

3 min read . 15 Dec 2022

AI-generated text needs some kind of watermark, like how stock photo sellers protect their images and movie studios deter piracy.

We need digital watermarks to catch AI passing off as human

4 min read . 13 Dec 2022

Google works by crawling billions of web pages, indexing content, ranking it by relevance, and then spitting out a list of links to click. (iStockphoto)

Google faces a big threat from ChatGPT’s answers to queries

1 min read . 08 Dec 2022

Twitter under Musk could well survive the way Telegram did

3 min read . 05 Dec 2022

A low-cost operation won’t be pretty but can be financially viable. (REUTERS)

Twitter under Musk could well survive the way Telegram did

1 min read . 05 Dec 2022

Popular image generators like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion are shielded by America’s fair use doctrine, which hinges on free expression as a defence for using copyrighted work. (E+)

Generative AI is generating a big ethical and legal quagmire

1 min read . 30 Nov 2022

Whether Musk has a larger plan is a matter of furious debate (Photo: AP)

Twitter has been hollowed out almost entirely by Elon Musk

3 min read . 21 Nov 2022

Kanye West is a musician with a successful apparel venture (Photo: AFP)

Kanye West’s free speech buy is not something to celebrate

3 min read . 18 Oct 2022

AI leaps by Meta and Google could make ‘seeing is believing’ history (Photo: iStock)

Algorithm domination of what we see looks set to rise sharply

4 min read . 10 Oct 2022

WeChat is a Chinese super app that’s the envy of many digital players (Photo: Mint)

Musk’s everything app ‘X’ is an idea that deserves to fizzle out

3 min read . 06 Oct 2022

Whether Musk can win Twitter’s staff over remains a question (AFP)

Twitter may reel from a culture shock under Musk ownership

4 min read . 05 Oct 2022

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