Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation

Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek from The Infinite Conversation. (credit: Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica) This week, an Italian artist and programmer named Giacomo Miceli debuted The Infinite Conversation website, an AI-powered nonstop chat between artificial versions of German director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, complete with realistic…

Save up to $122 on Sony headphones and earbuds with Amazon pre-Black Friday deals

Sony’s WH-1000XM5 Headphones are down to their lowest price on Amazon. Sony We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Black Friday is weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from offering deep discounts on some of its latest, greatest noise-cancelling headphones and earbuds….

Hurricane Ian shows how older populations are especially vulnerable during disasters

Heavily damaged mobile homes in Fort Myers Beach, Florida a month after Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28 as a Category 4 hurricane. Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This article was originally featured on KHN. All kinds of natural disasters—hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, dangerous heat waves—pose substantial risks to older adults. Yet,…

Daily Crunch: Twitter layoffs violated federal worker protections, class action lawsuit alleges

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Friday, and all eyes are on the vast number of Twitter employees who were given the boot, unceremoniously, with many of ’em finding out they’d lost their job because they were unable…

An upcoming global cruise will let travelers live on a luxury cruise ship for 155 nights — see what it’ll be like aboard the sailing

Azamara Azamara announced a 155-night, 37-country 2025 world cruise starting at $40,000. The 10-leg journey will start in San Diego, California and end in Southampton, United Kingdom.  The cruise line’s previous 2024 world cruise sold out in one month.  Around the world in 80 days? Let’s try 155 nights instead. Azamara Luxury cruise operator Azamara…