I choose the Rockefeller Christmas tree every year. Here’s how I spot the perfect spruce and get it ready for NYC.

Erik Pauze. Tishman Speyer Erik Pauze is the head gardener at Rockefeller Center, and he chooses the Christmas tree each year. He cares for the gardens daily and always has his eyes peeled for the perfect tree while traveling. Once it’s chosen, he takes care of it until it’s time to transport it to New…

Amazon’s Create With Alexa generates unique animated children’s stories on Echo Show

Tools like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which generate images based on a few lines of text, briefly set social media ablaze this year. But Amazon’s entry into the AI art world is a bit different. Create with Alexa lets children guide the creation of animated stories using a few kid-friendly prompts. Since Create…

Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy

Twitter’s long-running effort to fight COVID-19 misinformation is at an end, at least for now. As Twitter users and CNNnoticed, the social media firm has quietly updated its transparency site to reveal that it stopped enforcing its COVID misinformation policy on November 23rd. It’s not clear if the company will restore any accounts banned for…

Best geek Christmas jumpers and ugly sweaters: Star Wars, gaming, movies and more

It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid… of an ugly sweater or Christmas jumper. In fact, it’s time to embrace the madness of a garish garment covered in snowflakes, and other, usually, unacceptable patterns – especially if you’re a geek, like us. There are some amazing geek-tastic ugly sweaters and Christmas jumpers out…