I tried Gemini's 'scheduled actions' to automate my AI - the potential is enormous (but Google has work to do)

Here's what you can and cannot automate today via Gemini, including 15 ideas to use as starting points - and a bonus banana in a raincoat with an umbrella.
CoinTelegraph

Vitalik Buterin pitches ZK-proofs to audit X algorithm and rankings

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called on X to use blockchain and ZK-proofs to make its content-ranking algorithm verifiably fair and censorship-resistant. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is ...
Wall Street Journal

AI Can Make Decisions Better Than People Do. So Why Don’t We Trust It?

If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...
USA Today

With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar?

That’s the message from Kevin McColly, CEO of Coinstar, the company behind those coin-cashing machines you see in supermarkets. American consumers made only 16% of their payments in cash in 2023, ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘The algorithms are just destroying us’: Can you sue a social media company for harm?

Have you been harmed by a social media algorithm? If so, U.S. Sen. John Curtis wants to let you sue. The Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced Tuesday by Curtis and co-sponsored by Arizona Democrat ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet - 10 Things to Do First

Just jumping into Where Winds Meet can be a bit overwhelming with the amount of stuff you can do and the amount of menus you have to navigate right from the get go. To that end, here are 10 ...
Financial Advisor

The Human Dividend: What Algorithms Still Can't Do

Every advisor today is inundated with headlines telling them that artificial intelligence is about to change everything. (And by headlines, I mean the slightly panicked conversations you hear at every ...
PC World

10 steps every new laptop owner should take ASAP for the best setup

A new laptop feels like a fresh digital start: fast, clean, and ready for anything. But before you dive in, it’s wise to perform a quick system check, because many devices come with unnecessary ...
NorthJersey.com

What should you do with your old pennies now that production of the coin is ending?

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has stopped producing pennies, ending more than 230 years of minting the 1-cent coin. The penny will remain legal tender and will still be accepted at ...
Wired

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...
Observer

When Algorithms Curate Culture, What Do We Lose?

Displayed at MOPOP, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar embodies the accidents and defiance that shaped modern sound, and that A.I. can’t replicate. Courtesy Museum of Pop Culture As someone who spends her days ...