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AI OF A THOUSAND FACES  WIRED AI presents potential, and aspects that should give us pause  The Hill Times Are You Ready For AI That Sees, Hears, Smells, Talks And Acts?  Forbes AI everything  FinTech Futures Source link

This constant change has thrown many lives out of balance—and author, researcher, and professor Brené Brown told Fortune that instability wreaks havoc on workers’ mental health. “If you’re leading people, you probably know people are not okay,” Brown said onstage during the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., last week.  “Folks are still going into Costco with an …

Sennheiser hasn’t debuted a premium set of wireless headphones since the Momentum 4 arrived in 2022. Sure, there were two sets of Accentum cans, but those offer more mid-range performance in the $180-$250 range. Instead of a Momentum 5 for its latest release, the company has revealed the HDB 630: a $500 set of wireless noise-canceling headphones that offer lossless …

Summary: A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter. Using advanced imaging data, researchers showed that newborns exhibit robust connectivity in regions responsible for visual and social processing. Infants with stronger early connectivity paid greater attention to faces at four months and displayed fewer …

Security News This Week: Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure  WIRED Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House’s request to remove ICE tracking app  NPR Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects  AP News Apple removes app that tracks ICE agents from its App Store, developer says  CBS News Conservatives rally around …

“There are only a couple of things that are so important for your body that there’s a completely innate drive to get it if you fall into deficiency,” Knight said. “Oxygen, food, water, and sodium.” However, animals like us do not experience salt desire as a powerful, controlling drive as we do with oxygen, food, and water. Sensors signal salt …

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’  WIRED Microsoft AI CEO warns against giving AI rights: ‘That’s so dangerous and so misguided’  yahoo.com Could AI chatbots become conscious?  The Hindu From ELIZA to ChatGPT: Why machines only need to seem conscious to change us  VentureBeat Microsoft AI Chief Suleyman Warns of Anthropomorphizing Risks and ‘AI Psychosis  WebProNews Source link

As you’ve probably noticed, Google has gotten … weird lately. Weirder? It can be hard to find the search results you’re looking for. Between AI summaries and algorithm changes resulting in unexpected sources, it can be tricky to navigate the most popular search engine in the world. (And publishers are feeling the strain, too.) Earlier this year, Google updated its …

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from him in 2018, court documents show. The Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making …

All the Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025  WIRED The best stuff announced at IFA so far  The Verge The 5 Biggest Announcements From ShowStoppers At IFA 2025  bgr.com The Best of IFA 2025: Flagships, Foldables, and Fancy Fridges That Blew Us Away  PCMag The 4 coolest gadgets I’ve seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy)  ZDNET Source link