Published on: 2025-06-05 19:20:36
Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. YouTube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. This week, the story of our attempts to make the spoken visible, the magicians who tried and the crazy spell that finally did it. EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Simon Adler Produced by Simon Adler Original music from Simon Adler S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:59
Instacart on Wednesday appointed business chief Chris Rogers as its new CEO, less than a month after OpenAI announced CEO Fidji Simo as its new head of applications. Shares were flat. Rogers, who joined Instacart in 2019, will start Aug. 15 and join the board of directors. Simo will retain her chair position to "smooth the transition," the company said. "Over the last four years, we've transformed Instacart into a growing, profitable, leading technology platform that's helping reshape the gro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 07:25:24
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last night, OpenAI published a blog post on its official website authored by CEO and co-founder Sam Altman announcing a major new hire: Fidji Simo, currently CEO and Chair at grocery delivery company Instacart, will join OpenAI as CEO of Applications, a newly created executive position. Simo will step into her new role at OpenAI later in 2025 following a transition per
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 12:45:20
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to “focus on research, compute, and safety.” Simo has served as an OpenAI board member since last year, but she won’t leave Instacart right aw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 04:39:33
Medical device company Masimo Corporation warns that a cyberattack is impacting production operations and causing delays in fulfilling customers' orders. Masimo Corporation is a California-based medical technology and consumer electronics maker. It's best known for its noninvasive patient monitoring products like pulse oximeters, brain function monitors, hemodynamic monitoring systems, capnography and gas monitoring solutions, and remote patient monitoring platforms. The company has a reported
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is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Samsung subsidiary Harman has agreed to acquire the audio business division of Masimo, taking ownership of audio brands like Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, and Polk Audio. The $350 million deal brings them under the same roof as JBL, Harman Kardon, Arcam, AKG, Mark Levinson, and Revel, which Samsung acquired back in 2016 with its $8 billion acqui
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 11:46:38
We are constantly perceiving the world around us. As we do, we make decisions on how to move our bodies. The brain’s ability to process all the required sensory and motor information for this is no small feat. And one of neuroscience’s most significant questions is how exactly our brains integrate these two information sources as efficiently as they do. The newly launched Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) will unite leading scientists across neuroscience and machine learni
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 23:30:08
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar. These moments seem to ripple outward, lapping up against the present in unexpected ways. Lately, I have been deeply dispirited by the current attack on academia here in the US — the deportation of graduate students and researchers, the dismantling of a huge range of important projects via funding cuts to NIH and elsewhere. And I’ve been reflecting on one of these moments of
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Apple’s software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024, but there's a lot under the hood that adds to the steady stream of intriguing customizations and lesser-known features from the last few years. Several helpful settings are turned off by default, and it's not immediately obvious how to switch off some annoying
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