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The ultimate hotel room coffee-making guide

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Here is my philosophy on great coffee: drink it if you can get it, and don’t be a snob if you can only get something basic. But I have my limits on what I’ll accept, and those… Read more

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Terrible news, everyone: AI is learning how to post cringe

People like to argue that technology is value neutral; that it’s neither inherently good nor inherently bad, but can simply be put to different uses. As a rebuttal, I’d like to direct the court’s attention to exhibit a), a video of “digital humans” rapping using AI-synthesized voices, that is intrinsically awful. Indeed, I’d argue that… Read more

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