JoannaStern

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I've got a one tech mind. I'm an Emmy-winning @WSJ Senior Personal Technology Columnist and a @cnbc contributor. I have a @WSJ newsletter and video series called Tech Things because I explain and review #tech things.
Watch my videoshttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqQNt9DP_BNAU8c1KroIe-PAmrhu-7Xcn
Read my articleshttps://www.wsj.com/news/author/joanna-stern

The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze.

Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is.

Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones:

🆕 COLUMN:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-ai-gadget-that-can-make-your-life-betterand-two-that-definitely-wont-c51f49f0?st=a458i34feop0n13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

🆕 VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhzno-IjuiY

Remember the iPhone that still worked after it fell out of an Alaska Airlines plane at 16,000 feet?

I couldn’t shake figuring out how it survived. So I launched some iPhone 14s and Galaxy S23es 300 feet into the sky to find out.

🆕 COLUMN AND VIDEO: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-an-iphone-can-survive-a-drop-from-a-plane-but-not-from-your-kitchen-counter-57453ca9?st=9uqa298hbwakydm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

It's the tech billionaire death match you've been waiting for...

Yes, MUSK vs. ZUCK action figures.

They're jacked. They're ready to fight and explain what this ridiculous fight is really about. OK, I do the explaining.

Latest @WSJ video and column here:https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-musk-vs-zuck-how-the-big-tech-rivalries-are-shifting-7430185e

Big Tech’s Battle Royale Is Coming. The Winner? You.

A possible cage fight between billionaire social-media bosses is a symbol of the heated competition in the new AI age

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Sometimes you just have to hit the streets with a printer, laptop and a giant battery to generate some AI art and make total strangers' photo dreams come true.

My 🆕 video testing out some crazy AI photo tools, including #AdobeFirefly #midjourney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoFc14mpMs

AI Extreme Makeover: Testing Four Powerful AI Photo Apps | WSJ

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And my latest video where I blow up balloons with a leaf blower to explain how markets tend to balloon after Apple enters them.

And yes, I do birthday parties and board meetings.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmiHEMYd50

Will Apple’s Headset Be as Disruptive as the iPod, iPhone or Apple Watch? | WSJ

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The VR / AR headest of today are nerd helmets.

Can Apple change that?

My latest column / video: https://on.wsj.com/42KhULc

An Apple Headset Is Coming. Can It Be More Than a Nerd Helmet?

With the iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch, uncool gadgets got cool. Now the company is taking on mixed-reality goggles.

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My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.

We’re all going to be just fine.

My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI.

COLUMN: https://on.wsj.com/3NnZbjU

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/t52Bi-ZUZjA

I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.

Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie.

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One week.

Thats how long my colleague Evan Gershkovich has been in a Moscow prison for doing his job: reporting the truth about Putin’s Russia.

I feel helpless in this situation but reading and sharing his work can help.

Let’s all #IStandWithEvan.

WSJ.com/Evan

Google Bard is coming today! Well, sorta.

It’s going to be a limited roll out and Google is clearly calling it an experiment.

You can sign up for the waitlist here: https://bard.google.com

I got a demo yesterday and Google's making it clear this is not meant to replace search.

‎Try Bard, an AI experiment by Google

Bard is your creative and helpful collaborator to supercharge your imagination, boost productivity, and bring ideas to life.

Everyone was talking about
#ChatGPT + cheating.

So I did it. I went back to AP Lit and used it to write an essay.

My last WSJ video of the year, featuring me in a high school classroom with a bunch of teens giving me side eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01biyMZjEo

Cheating With ChatGPT: Can OpenAI’s Chatbot Pass AP Lit? | WSJ

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