Jurgita Lapienyte

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Jurgita Lapienyte

Thank you, universe, for the genius of Charlie Brooker. Whether you like it or not, Black Mirror Season 7 also subtly captures the essence of our overreliance on technology, deploying distorted yet eerily plausible twists to stir our emotions. Since you’re probably subscribed to this newsletter for technology news rather than movie reviews, I’ll briefly go through each episode, highlighting one tech trend it explores.

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Jurgita Lapienyte

After my cat finally came home after two weeks of unlimited roaming, I got him an Apple AirTag. I paid around $40 for what was the smallest possible tracking device at the time. This is certainly the most expensive piece of anything my beloved cat has. Nearly every pet owner has some scare story where their furry friends try to escape their humans. And while you want to protect them, you also want them to live their best lives, which sometimes means simply letting them roam free.

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Jurgita Lapienyte

If not for my personal experience, I’d see most content about smartwatches saving people’s lives as nothing but a clever marketing ploy. In many cases, smartwatches start alerting their owners about something being wrong before they can even feel it. “Hand on heart, if it wasn’t for my smartwatch constantly nagging me, I wouldn’t have even noticed something was wrong,” Amanda Faulkner, the consultant psychiatrist, told the Herald.

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Jurgita Lapienyte

The US military is increasingly using AI applications. Experts are worried, of course. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which spent most of 2024 aboard ships throughout the Pacific, has tested a leading AI tool funded by the Pentagon. The new system was used to gather and interpret open-source intelligence. It scouted non-classified articles, reports, images, and videos, and later summarized foreign news sources, and wrote daily and weekly intelligence reports, the MIT Technology Review reported.

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Jurgita Lapienyte

Linda McMahon mistakenly pronounced "AI" as "A1", sparking an internet trend and a playful response from the steak sauce brand A.1.“Either I'm very slow, or it took me a while to understand that A1 is AI,” my colleague said after watching Linda McMahon, Donald Trump's secretary of education, talking about AI. This week, the 76-year-old McMahon attended the ASU+GSV education summit and quickly made headlines not for the insights she shared but for the way she kept pronouncing AI.