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For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7 percent of workers spending two hours or more on the road.Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were – could it be? – missing their commutes.One woman told The Washington Post that even though she was working from home, she…

Ashton Kutcher sure is living a happy life right now. After recovering from a “life-threatening” health scare, he’s living his best life with his wife Mila Kunis, and their two children. When he’s not on-screen making us laugh, the That '70s Show actor has got some funny real-life stories to tell like the “bananas” story of watching Harry Styles do karaoke without realizing that was the famed singer. Karaoke singing is all in good fun whether you can truly carry a tune or blame the couple of drinks you just had for any…

Technologies such as ChatGPT will profoundly change the economy, but they are getting better so quickly that it’s impossible to say how. Artificial intelligence advances in a manner that's hard for the human mind to grasp. For a long time nothing happens, and then all of a sudden something does. The current revolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT resulted from the advent of “transformer neural networks” in about 2017.What will the next half-decade bring? Can we rely on our current impressions of…

Image: SonyBut with the ubiquity of smartphones, what's the need for a music player? After all, last year, Apple discontinued manufacturing and selling the final iteration of its portable music player, the iPod Touch. Nowadays, everyone has a smartphone in their pocket with which they can listen to music, watch videos, text, and call from the same device. So, why would anyone be interested in a $375 device that only plays music? Nostalgia sellsEven the oldest Millennials were a tad too young to enjoy the first…

The DC community is currently coming to terms with what is surely the final nail in the coffin of the Snyderverse, as Henry Cavill is confirmed to be out as Superman. With James Gunn and Peter Safran ushering in a new era of the rechristened DCU, they’ve already cancelled Man of Steel 2, Wonder Woman 3, and shifted Jason Momoa from Aquaman to some other unknown role. And the death of the DCEU Justice League has opened the fandom’s eyes to a greater curse that’s plaguing the JLA across the multiverse. As Twitter user…

Image: Tor Publishing | Ufuk Kaya/ShutterstockA few weeks ago, right here on io9, readers got their first look at the cover for Christopher Paolini’s newest Fractalverse novel, Fractal Noise. Almost immediately, people could see something was off about the artwork used on the cover. With some quick deduction, Twitter users realized that it was AI-generated art, which was originally posted to a stock art site by a user named Ufuk Kaya. It was also arranged by the in-house designer, who is not credited—something unusual for…

Tesla defended itself in a lawsuit over its self-driving claims brought by a customer by saying that “mere failure to realize a long-term, aspirational goal is not fraud.” In September, we reported on a Tesla owner filing a class-action lawsuit against Tesla over “allegedly misleading the public regarding its Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot, and Full Self-Driving Capability (‘FSD’) technology.” Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles produced going forward have “all the needed…

Television personality, author and hair stylist Jonathan Van Ness recently shared on social media his struggles with his eating and weight after "years of feeling out of control with food".He described suffering from binge-eating disorder – an eating disorder characterized by consuming large amounts of food with a sense of feeling out of control.Binge-eating disorder is perhaps the most common eating disorder out there, affecting between 0.6-2.3 percent of people worldwide. It's estimated that it may occur two to three…

International Business Machines Corp. announced Wednesday that it has created a more powerful quantum computing chip, the next step in its yearslong effort to build quantum machines capable of delivering business value to companies.The 433-qubit Osprey chip, unveiled at IBM’s annual Quantum Summit in New York, has more than three times as many qubits as the 127-qubit Eagle chip it introduced last year.  But IBM is aiming to steadily build that computing power in the years ahead. The company…

Workers who derive at least moderate value from AI technology are more likely to be satisfied in their jobs, according to new MIT/Boston Consulting Group Research. Image: tippapatt/Adobe Stock A new report from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group finds that despite the commonly held belief that artificial intelligence-powered automation can take workers’ jobs, 60% of employees view AI as a coworker and not a job threat. Furthermore, organizations with employees who derive value…