Jona Health Review: Microbiome Decoder for Health Conditions
Look, there’s nothing quite like starting your day by pooping on a little paper hammock affixed to your toilet seat and then poking it a bunch of times with a cotton swab. It was more…
Category: TECHNOLOGY
The AI sexting era has arrived
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry’s power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The Stepback arrives in…
Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has…
Gemini in Google Home Keeps Mistaking My Dog for a Cat
A cat jumped up on my couch. Wait a minute. I don't have a cat.The alert about the leaping feline is something my Google Home app sent me when I was out at a party.…
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have…
Facebook’s AI can now suggest edits to the photos still on your phone
A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone’s camera roll but haven’t yet been shared is now rolling out to all users in the U.S.…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologizes for saying National Guard needed in San Francisco
Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, appears to be walking back comments calling for the National Guard to patrol San Francisco. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and…
Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
To collect data for this study, in August 2024 we prompted three GenAI chatbots—the GPT-4o model of ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash model, and Microsoft’s latest Copilot model—to generate two sets of lesson plans for…
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
At a time when startup hustle culture is back, when “locked in” tech founders have even embraced the “996” way of working — 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week — there is…
3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963
These days, costs are more firmly under control, and equivalence of technology has given way to balance of performance to level the playing field. It’s a controversial topic. IMSA and the ACO, which writes the…