Facebook launched its Bitmoji-like Avatars. Here's how to make yours and how to use it.

In case you haven't noticed already, Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this past week. Here's a ...
CNET

Claude Can Now Run Tasks on Your Behalf With New 'Computer Use' Feature

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
The Washington Post

Democrats are using the I-word again

In today’s edition … NATO is in the White House ... What went down in Wisconsin … but first … For months, Democrats have tamped down talk of impeachment to ...
IEEE

Effectively Detecting Loop Closures using Point Cloud Density Maps

Abstract: The ability to detect loop closures plays an essential role in any SLAM system. Loop closures allow correcting the drifting pose estimates from a sensor odometry pipeline. In this paper, we ...
Time

AI Alone Won't Take Your Job. Someone Using AI Will

AI won’t replace you at work, but someone using AI likely will. Maybe not today or tomorrow. Maybe not this year or even next. But eventually. And if you wait for eventually, it will be too late. For ...
Wall Street Journal

The People Who Are Using AI at Home to Free Up Their Time

Andy Coravos says offloading tedious tasks to AI has freed her to focus more on the things she loves, like singing and playing guitar. Andy Coravos has a new home helper—named Claude. She assigns her ...