Land swap approved ahead of construction of New Orleans Topgolf
The New Orleans City Council is aiming to make the River District more pedestrian-friendly for future businesses, including Topgolf.
The New Orleans City Council is aiming to make the River District more pedestrian-friendly for future businesses, including Topgolf.
OpenAI is removing one of the voices used by ChatGPT. Users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson, the company announced on Monday, and Johansson herself released a statement saying she hired legal council to inquire about the Sky voice and get exact details about how it was developed. "We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice," the company wrote in a blog post.
A new self-driving truck — manufactured by Volvo and loaded with autonomous vehicle tech developed by Aurora Innovation — could be on public highways as early as this summer. The Volvo VNL Autonomous truck, which was revealed Monday evening at the ACT Expo in Las Vegas, is the product of a partnership between Aurora and Volvo Autonomous Solutions. Aurora plans to start hauling freight using these Volvo self-driving trucks in the next several months.
Celebrities have descended on the south of France in style.
When putting a video portal in a public park in the middle of New York City, some inappropriate behavior will likely occur. The Portal, the vision of Lithuanian artist and entrepreneur Benediktas Gylys, was designed to bring people together and let them share common experiences. After it opened earlier this month, the vast majority of people who went to the portal on both sides of the Atlantic waved to each other, brought their kids and pets and did friendly human things.
Craig Kuligowski, who was facing a sexual harassment complaint at Toledo, said he was fired due to his age and his race. He’s a 55-year-old white man.
Considering adding an air fryer to your kitchen? Now is a great time to jump in thanks to a 38% off discount on the best-selling air fryer at Amazon.
ASUS isn’t sitting out the rush of AI-enhanced Copilot+ PCs. The company’s Vivobook S 15 has Windows AI features like memory assistant Recall, the image generator Cocreator, and several ASUS-exclusive AI apps.
Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice reported for the team's organized team activities amid his involvement in a multi-car crash and alleged nightclub assault during the offseason.
Amazon is rolling out Memorial Day deals. We like this 32% off deal on a 43-inch Amazon Fire Smart TV with Alexa voice remote.
At its Build 2024 conference, Microsoft unveiled Rewind, a new feature that aims to make local Windows PC searches as quick and effective as web searches. Similar to third-party apps like Rewind, Microsoft’s Recall uses AI to retrieve virtually anything you’ve seen on your PC.
Microsoft has partnered with a bunch of PC manufacturers to unveil laptops with the company’s Copilot AI built into the system. Here are all of the major announcements and products.
Meta's Oversight Board has now extended its scope to include the company's newest platform, Instagram Threads. Designed as an independent appeals board that hears cases and then makes precedent-setting content moderation decisions, the board to date has decided on cases like Facebook's ban of Donald Trump, COVID-19 misinformation, the removal of breast cancer photos, and more. Now the board has begun hearing cases emerging from Threads, Meta's Twitter/X competitor.
Half SUV and half coupe, the Skye is an electric off-roader that's the first car from former Jaguar head of design Ian Callum's new company.
Also on our cheat sheet: Spring savings on Lululemon, Merrell and Coach plus plenty of early Memorial Day deals.
The nation's highest court is expected to make rulings that could limit the reach of social media, the ability of federal agencies to crack down on companies, and the power of bankruptcy courts to shield powerful parties from liability.
The Nuggets have the best player in basketball in Nikola Jokić, and he should have at least another 5-6 years left of MVP-caliber play.
With the right summer moves and expected health, there's no reason to believe the Thunder couldn't win the whole thing next season.
One team will go on to the Eastern Conference finals. The other will go home.
Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company successfully flew six paying customers to the edge of space and back this morning, breaking its nearly two-year-long hiatus from crewed missions. This was Blue Origin’s seventh trip with humans on board.
Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. In a statement shared with TechCrunch and other publications, Expedia said Murthy and Rachamadugu are “no longer employed at Expedia Group” due to an unspecified “violation of company policy.” Murthy spoke to TechCrunch about the new AI-powered features announced earlier this week, and she reportedly gave a presentation on those features at an Expedia conference with business partners.