Monthly Archives: February 2023

Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

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Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

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The PlayStation Goggles Are a Win for Gamers. Not for the Metaverse.

Sony’s new $550 headset offers best-in-class virtual reality gaming, but it’s still hard to see why we need V.R. goggles at all.

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Bitcoin Price Stages a Comeback, Hitting Six-Month High

The cryptocurrency has soared to a six-month high as investors eagerly jump back into risky digital assets.

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Tile takes extreme steps to limit stalkers and thieves from using its Bluetooth trackers

Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts, which led the company to retool its software with a closer eye on user safety. AirTag’s competitor … Continue reading

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So that founder you backed turned out to be problematic. Now what?

Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re the right people to execute the startup’s goals. However, being the … Continue reading

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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam

And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.

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Zerocater raises $15M as demand heats up for flexible in-office food services

Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the day when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) — was growing at a fast clip and gobbling up new customers for its office meal delivery service before Covid-19 … Continue reading

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5 buyer red flags to look for during the M&A process

Marina Martianova Contributor Share on Twitter Marina Martianova, founder and CEO of Seamm, is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first startup at the age of 21. The global mergers and acquisitions market skyrocketed in 2021, with a total of … Continue reading

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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.

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