Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica) Not to be left…

Distributed database provider pgEdge emerges from stealth with $9M

Startup pgEdge, with a fully distributed database for use in the cloud and at the network…

Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives

Forget about He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies. Instead, when you think about…

Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual…

Everything You Need to Know to Invest Wisely in the Cloud

If you’re looking to upgrade your data management system to the cloud in the near future,…

Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands

Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a…

Why machine identity management should be your focus in 2023

Reduced budgets should not dictate security posture. Why organizations must make security and machine identity management…

The Download: how to log off, and the future of energy

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going…

WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe weight loss drugs, for $106M (Andrea Petersen/Wall Street Journal)

Andrea Petersen / Wall Street Journal: WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month…

AI Machines: The Role of Humans In Data Analytics

The internet lit up the day ChatGPT was launched. Almost everyone across every social media platform…