A shopping mall in Shenzhen has started installing bathroom stall doors that turn transparent if they detect cigarette smoke. Usually, the glass is opaque. Frosted. The kind you stop noticing the moment the door closes. But if someone lights up inside the stall, a sensor triggers and the glass clears….
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Kids Are Talking to Chatbots Now — and Parents Aren’t Sure What to Do About It
Remember when “screen time” meant cartoons before dinner? Now it means your 8-year-old might be chatting with an AI that calls itself “Sally.” A new survey finds that kids as young as five are already engaging with artificial intelligence — and parents are scrambling to keep up. According to fresh…
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AOL Dial-Up Curtain Call – Goodbye to the Screech Heard ‘Round the World
Thirty-two years ago, I logged onto AOL for the first time. I was in my twenties, excited about this thing called the “Information Superhighway,” and there it was: the scratchy, robotic modem sound that—let’s be honest—sounded like R2-D2 in a fistfight with a fax machine. That sound still cracks me…