Mike Pearl
By Mike Pearl
How to use Google's Dark Web Report to find out where your data has been leaked
In "late July" everyone gets access.
By Mike Pearl
How gamification sparked the AI era in tech
We're all playing the global AI game — for better and worse.
By Mike Pearl
Apple announces AI-powered iPhone call recordings at WWDC 2024
They breezed right past it, but it's big.
By Mike Pearl
Apple Maps adds topographic maps in WWDC reveal
Navigating on your iPhone has never been more topographical.
By Mike Pearl
We gave Google's AI Overviews the benefit of the doubt. Here's how they did.
Were there weird hallucinations? Yes. Did they work just fine sometimes? Also yes.
By Mike Pearl
One of OpenAI's safety leaders quit on Tuesday. He just explained why.
In a word: safety.
By Mike Pearl
How to turn off Google AI Overviews
There is one way that doesn't require a Chrome extension.
By Mike Pearl
Google injects still more AI into Google Docs and other Workspace apps
Gemini will soon hang out in your sidebar while you work.
By Mike Pearl
Veo, Google's Sora competitor, is hyped by Donald Glover
More Google vs. OpenAI warfare
By Mike Pearl
Where the northern lights will be visible thanks to the solar flare
Tonight's forecast calls for auroras.
By Mike Pearl
The new iPad ad essentially flips AI-weary creatives the bird
It's the wrong ad for the wrong consumer moment.
By Mike Pearl
iPad Air 2024: 2 new features that iPad Air 2022 doesn't have
The new iPad Air 2024 is here. Check out all of its new features.
By Mike Pearl and Kimberly Gedeon
How to see the Eta Aquarid meteor shower in 2024
The barely-there moon will make for great viewing conditions.
By Mike Pearl
A ChatGPT search engine is rumored to be coming next week
The rumor is plausible and feeds into years-old speculation.
By Mike Pearl
'I was kinda trapped': Watch a Cybertruck try to eat a guy's finger
"I feared for my finger for a second."
By Mike Pearl
Hands-on with the Claude AI app: It's pleasant to use, but janky
...Because all AI apps are janky
By Mike Pearl
How to see the Lyrid meteor shower despite the bright moon
The moon will be a buzzkill, but it doesn't have to spoil the show completely.
By Mike Pearl
Where's the AI in these 'AI-powered' products for your home? An explanation.
We looked past the hype and spotted the AI for you.
By Mike Pearl
Why don't we have AI-powered robot butlers yet? An investigation.
Why AI-powered robot butlers – and the subsequent robot uprising – are at least a century away.
By Mike Pearl
The amazing total solar eclipse is incredible luck. Here's why.
'It's unique and there's nothing even close to it.'
By Mike Pearl
When the clocks change for Daylight Saving Time, and why we do it at all
Can't we just...not change our clocks?
By Mike Pearl
Alibaba's AI video generator just dunked on Sora by making the Sora lady sing
Alibaba calls it 'EMO,' and it sure is.
By Mike Pearl
AI 'writers' are mostly worthless right now. But that won't last.
Sure, an AI can write a decent book...if you painstakingly force it to write exactly what you want.
By Mike Pearl
How the AI boom is informed by the Industrial Revolution
Is another revolution against tech coming?
By Mike Pearl
ChatGPT freaked out, generating gibberish for many users
ChatGPT said it may have been suffering from "jumbled inceptions," "affected parts blindness," and "higher perplexity stoked in modules," whatever that means.
By Mike Pearl