Author: GloFiish

A Recent Entrance to Paradise is a painting that frequently appears in legal circles. Its color scheme is dreamy, lush, and almost romantic. The kind of piece you might find in a gallery in lower Manhattan, with the artist’s name and the year written on a little white card next to it. However, there isn’t an artist. Computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s algorithm, DABUS, produced the entire piece. Thaler applied for copyright protection but was categorically turned down. Upheld by the courts and upheld by the Supreme Court in March 2026, that denial has quietly emerged as one of the most…

A warehouse worker in the Midwest of the United States goes through a tiny, nearly unmemorable moment dozens of times during a shift. They hesitate. Perhaps they look at a window, or perhaps they stretch their back. When thirty minutes of that accumulate over the course of a shift, the system issues a warning. After an hour, the disciplinary procedure starts. They are fired after two hours. A supervisor did not call. There had been no discussion. No one gave them a direct look. That was the decision made by the algorithm. FieldDetailsTopic / ConceptAlgorithmic Management (ALMA)Also Known AsAI-driven management,…

Carbon dioxide extracted from the open air is gradually turning into a diamond somewhere in a reactor facility in Chicago under intense heat and pressure driven by clean electricity. Atom by atom. Week by week. It sounds like something from a novel by Jules Verne. However, the man behind it has a waitlist to show that it is actually happening right now. The CEO and co-founder of Aether, a startup in New York, Ryan Shearman has spent years creating a patent-pending method that uses CO2 straight from the atmosphere to create gem-grade diamonds in about four weeks. For comparison, Mother…

Somewhere over a section of rural Montana or the steppe of Kazakhstan, a phone signal just goes out. Not a bar. Nothing. For many years, this silence was just accepted as a drawback of the way mobile networks are designed. Towers are expensive. Remote land is not profitable. Thus, the towers never materialized. This reasoning, which has long been ingrained in business practices, is currently being dismantled covertly from a height of roughly 340 miles above the Earth’s surface. CategoryDetailsTechnologyDirect-to-Cell Satellite ConnectivityPrimary CompanySpaceX (Starlink)FoundedSpaceX: 2002 | Starlink: 2015HeadquartersHawthorne, California, USACEOElon MuskSatellite Network Size10,000+ satellites (as of 2025)Global UsersOver 10 millionTotal…

Every gamer is familiar with a certain moment. It happens quickly: a boss kill that required 47 tries, an impossible headshot, a last-second clutch play. Your heart is pounding. Your hands continue to tremble. And then it’s gone, undocumented, existing only in recollection and the frantic recounting to friends who weren’t present. It appears that Microsoft has been considering that precise moment for some time. Through its Xbox Insider program, the company is currently testing a feature called Highlight Reels. The idea is simple enough to seem almost obvious in retrospect: let artificial intelligence watch your gameplay, recognize the moments…

Take a moment to pick up your phone. Feel its weight, the cool glass against your fingers, the slight pressure in your palm. It’s simple to forget what’s really inside. The majority of people use it like a call-making camera. As of right now, it is more akin to a supercomputer, but not in the loose, hyperbolic sense that the term is used in tech press releases. Two years ago, the processing power found in today’s flagship smartphones would have required a room-sized server farm. That isn’t a metaphor. Today, a device that costs about $800 can perform thousands of…

Standing in a store with a box in hand—possibly a shrink-wrapped CD case or a DVD with the receipt still tucked inside—is probably a scene that many people can remember. You owned that item once you bought it. There is no need to log in. There isn’t a server on the other end. There isn’t a business that could reverse its decision in three years. It’s getting harder to find that sense of real ownership in the technology we use on a daily basis, and it’s vanishing more quickly than most people realize. The change was not self-announced. Dressed as…

Kenny Hirschhorn, Orange’s group director of strategy, imagineering, and futurology, pulled out his cell phone in January 2000 in London and asked a strategy consultant, “What is this?” A cell phone, the consultant said. With a sigh, Hirschhorn gave another opportunity. When the response was “Nokia,” he shook his head. “This,” he stated, “is the remote control of your life.” Then he showed a video of a California executive using a phone in a car in 2000 to check his calendar and see his wife’s ultrasound pictures. The consultant’s mouth fell open. CategoryDetailsTopicArtificial Intelligence in Mobile Devices (On-Device & Cloud…

Sitting in front of grainy satellite footage of the Peruvian desert, there is a moment when it ceases to resemble geography and begins to resemble a message. Stretching across the Nazca Pampa, lines carved into pale earth are invisible to those who haven’t been instructed where to look and are typically overlooked on maps. For many years, it took months of fieldwork, skilled vision, and a certain obstinate willingness to crouch in the dust under a harsh sun to find these marks. An algorithm now completes the task in a fraction of the time. Additionally, it’s discovering things that skilled…

If you look closely, there’s a point at which technology becomes tiresome instead of exciting. The smartphone might have arrived at that point. These days, if you walk into any busy corner café in Austin or London, you’ll see the same scene: faces glowing blue-white in the afternoon light, heads tilted down, and thumbs scrolling. It doesn’t seem to make anyone very happy. No one appears to be learning something new. They simply appear to be stuck. At one point, the smartphone was truly revolutionary. The 2007 release of the first iPhone was more than just a product; it was…