British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing his seatbelt while filming a social media video in a moving car. Sunak was visiting three towns in the north of England when he posted the video promoting his ‘leveling up’ program on Instagram. The video has since been taken down but can be seen in a…
Here’s a fun thing you can do if you’re Disney and own virtually all of the top studios and major movie franchises that exist: you can spew your releases over the yearly box office like an invading army, determined to decimate all foes. And thus, Disney has announced 21 release dates for mysterious new films in…
Quordle, a Wordle-style word game, has a fitting new owner in the shape of Merriam-Webster. The game’s URL now redirects to a page on the company’s website, as TechCrunch spotted. The Merriam-Webster logo appears at the top of the page too.
“I’m delighted to announce that Quordle was acquired by Merriam-Webster! I can’t think of a better home for this game,” Quordle creator Freddie Meyer wrote in a message on the game’s help tab. “Lots of new features and fun to come, so stay tuned!”
Quordle is a supercharged version of Wordle. Instead of giving folks six guesses to find a single five-letter word, Quordle challenges players to simultaneously figure out four of them in nine guesses or fewer. The color-coded approach is the same. If a letter is the correct place, it turns green, and if it’s elsewhere in a given word, it turns yellow. As with Wordle, there’s one daily batch of four words.
Merriam-Webster scooped up Quordle a year after Wordle took the world by storm and got snapped up by The New York Times. Heardle, a music-themed clone, also has an apt owner after Spotify bought it last summer.
Some players (hi) have been annoyed by Quordle reusing certain words. On a few occasions, the same word has popped up two days in a row. With a dictionary company now in charge, here’s hoping Quordle will freshen things up.
The department will soon use Calibri instead of Times New Roman in all high-level internal documents.
It’s been a rough few weeks for the U.S. air industry and tech. First, Southwest Airlines was forced to cancel an astounding 16,700 holiday flights due, in part, to outdated scheduling software. Just weeks later the Federal Aviation Administration drastically had to ground all domestic flights because of a corrupted…
CNET is halting its use of AI-written articles for the time being. The Vergeclaims the technology publication’s leadership has paused experiments with AI stories “for now” during a question-and-answer call with staff. While there’s no word on the exact reasoning behind the freeze, which also affects Bankrate and CreditCards.com, editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo reportedly said future AI-related stories would include a disclosure that the publication uses automated technologies.
Executive content VP Lindsey Turrentine also promised more transparency regarding the AI, according to The Verge. Some employees would get a preview of the tech, she said. More details of the system will reportedly be available next week. CNET owner Red Ventures has also formed an AI working group. Staff were generally unaware of either the AI’s inner workings or when it was being used.
Questions about CNET‘s AI practices began last week, when The Byte noticed that dozens of financial explainer articles appeared to have been written using “automation technology.” While there was a disclosure, it was effectively hidden when you had to click the byline to see it. CNET claimed in the blurb that humans “thoroughly” edited and fact-checked the work, but that wasn’t true — the outlet started reviewing the pieces after Futurism discovered serious errors in a story.
CNET has used machine-made articles in years past. AI has advanced since then, though, and the discovery comes as text generation tools like ChatGPT draw flak and even bans over fears of plagiarism and reduced work for human writers. As with automation elsewhere in the workforce, some people don’t trust that companies will use AI in an ethical way.
Richard Barnett is most recognized for the image of him propping his feet up on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and leaving her a vulgar note.
Mercedes’ resurrected Maybach brand is only applied to its most lavish cars, and that goes beyond gadgets to raise questions about the true meaning of luxury.
In the race to iterate and improve on artificial intelligence, Google is tapping into its co-founders to help bolster efforts in improving its search engine.
You have a choice to make when it comes to the next Hyundai Santa Fe you buy. Do you go for speed with the Calligraphy, or keep it green with the Hybrid?
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