Comment on From portal pranks to chatbot chaos, here's why fun tech projects designed to connect us end in tears

The towering display at JFK’s Terminal 4 is only the beginning of the hologram takeover. If you happened to be waiting for a flight at JFK Terminal 4 on May 23, chances are you bumped into the comedian Howie Mandel. Not in-person, of course. Mandel is averse to germs and doesn’t like to fly.

The rise of quantum computing means encryption tech has to change. Here’s how you’ll protect your data going forward Late last month, Zoom announced that it was rolling out a new type of encryption, called post-quantum cryptography (PQC), to its Zoom Workplace product. A day later, Facebook owner Meta revealed it had deployed post-quantum cryptography across most of its internal service communications.

More often than not, telling it like it is is not indicative of intelligence. If you’re like most people—someone who pays attention to the feelings of others, and tries to act with empathy in professional interactions with coworkers and colleagues—you’ll have experienced the common tension between telling others what you really think and coming across as rewarding to deal with.

The cave system contains one of the biggest aquifers in Mexico and acts as the region’s main water source, crucial at a time when the nation faces a deepening water crisis. Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula.

This tech cofounder and CEO calls them the “Four I’s”—instinct, integrity, intensity, and inclusion. Here’s how to cultivate the values they stand for. There is a quote from leadership and company culture expert Larry Senn that says, “Culture is not an initiative. Culture is the enabler of all initiatives.” I couldn’t agree more.

Hugging Face’s HuggingChat incorporates open-source LLMs from Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Mistral. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini all run on a big company’s servers. Even if you had powerful computing hardware, you couldn’t run them yourself. A few gigantic corporations control them.