The Museum of Contemporary Art building in Detroit, renamed the Julia Reyes Taubman Building in honor of the museum’s late founder, has reopened. Photography by Elonte Davis The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit reopened in April after eight months of renovations, celebrating not only its 20th anniversary but also a vision for art and experimentation … Read more
The Internet was not originally created with privacy as a primary consideration. Every time users visit a streaming website and access content to cloud-based services or communicate over the Internet, their data passes through multiple networks and servers. As concerns about digital privacy continue to grow, Internet users in the MENA region are becoming increasingly … Read more
AI-powered drones are vulnerable to interference, but a Brooklyn engineer has a solution. Brian Stream, CEO of Vermeer, developed a visual positioning system for drone navigation. Streem’s technology has already been deployed in Ukraine, with the aim of saving the War Department’s fortune. As the wars in Iran and Ukraine continue, billions of dollars are … Read more
Vice President J.D. Vance told Air Force Academy graduates that they should “never submit” to artificial intelligence while making life-and-death decisions — and that killing decisions “should be made by humans.” “The thing that worries me most about artificial intelligence is how it will change warfare,” Vance said in his speech to graduates on Thursday. … Read more
From “surveillance wages” to psychological profiling, new workplace A.I. systems are reshaping power dynamics between employers and employees. Unsplash+ When we wrote about the legal and ethical implications of A.I. in hiring in 2019, we focused on the assessment of job candidates before they had been hired or consented to an ongoing relationship with an … Read more
As AI gains autonomy in trading, the real insight lies in what it teaches us about ourselves. Unsplash+ The use of artificial intelligence in trading has been evolving steadily for years, but an important shift is taking place. Once limited to supporting human traders by analyzing charts, processing data, and summarizing news, artificial intelligence is … Read more
Language in Egypt has evolved regularly with technology, and now, artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are shaping the written and spoken language in Egypt and around the world. The sweeping linguistic shift appears in academic and Professional writingAnd in digital spaces as well. Egyptians, to this day, say “LOL,” … Read more
Yasmine Barrada. Courtesy Loft Art Gallery “When it comes to art, I have always followed my intuition,” Yasmine Barrada tells Observer. We are at Loft Gallery in Casablanca, surrounded by the abstract, geometric and seaweed-like works of Malika Agheznay, a leading artist of the famous Casablanca School. “I feel like the art world is very … Read more
And just like that, the Bucs’ two longest-tenured players are gone. Only a couple of weeks apart. In one offseason. First, it was 2014 first-round pick Mike Evans leaving to sign with the 49ers ahead of his 13th NFL season. And this past week, it was 2012 second-round pick Lavonte David, a 14-year Buccaneer, announcing … Read more
Gary Tan said Y Combinator’s application process is being transformed by artificial intelligence Photo by Houghton Subasic Conference and Festivals/SXSW via Getty Images When Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan launched his first startup in the 2000s, he worked such long hours that he took anti-narcolepsy medications just to stay awake. Today, he no longer needs … Read more