David Lawder and Andrea Shalal | Reuters Wall Street closes lower as Trump sets 25% tariffs U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday after President Trump announced sweeping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, with the Dow dropping almost 1.5%, the S&P 500 shedding more than one-and-three-quarters percent and the Nasdaq spiraling more than 2.6%. WASHINGTON – … Read more
David Lawder and Andrea Shalal | Reuters Wall Street closes lower as Trump sets 25% tariffs U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday after President Trump announced sweeping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, with the Dow dropping almost 1.5%, the S&P 500 shedding more than one-and-three-quarters percent and the Nasdaq spiraling more than 2.6%. WASHINGTON – … Read more
I am not a coder. I can’t write a single line of Python, JavaScript or C++. Except for a brief period in my teenage years when I built websites and tinkered with Flash animations, I’ve never been a software engineer, nor do I harbor ambitions of giving up journalism for a career in the tech … Read more
Amazon’s Alexa is undergoing its biggest overhaul since debuting more than a decade ago. On Wednesday, Amazon said it was giving Alexa a new brain powered by generative artificial intelligence. The update, called Alexa+, is set to make the virtual assistant more conversational and helpful in booking concert tickets, coordinating calendars and suggesting food to … Read more
A picture is worth a thousand words, but you don’t need to type any of them to search the internet these days. Boosted by artificial intelligence, software on your phone can automatically analyze objects live in your camera view or in a photo (or video) to immediately round up a list of search results. And … Read more
After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven’t felt on social media in a long time: free. Free from Elon Musk, and his tedious quest to turn X into a right-wing echo chamber where he and his friends are the permanent, inescapable main characters. Free … Read more
Australia has passed a law to prevent children under 16 from creating accounts on social media platforms. The bill, which the government calls a “world leading” move to protect young people online, was approved in the Senate on Thursday with support from both of the country’s major parties. The lower house of Parliament had passed … Read more
But that was specifically for psoriasis, with a limited pool of 783 patients. Popular at-home skin-care devices tend to be less vetted, said the study’s lead author Joel Gelfand, MD, a professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the Perelman School. “If they aren’t studied in a randomized control trial, it makes me skeptical,” he said. … Read more
Fable, a popular app for talking about and tracking books, is changing the way it creates personalized summaries for its users after complaints that an artificial intelligence model used offensive language. One summary suggested that a reader of Black narratives should also read white authors. In an Instagram post this week, Chris Gallello, the head … Read more
On Tuesday, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, many Instagram and Facebook users found themselves following him on the social media apps even though they had not signed up to do so. What gives? Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it was part of a regular process in which White … Read more