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WSJ Tech News Briefing

Firefox Maker Plans to Add AI Features to Its Browser

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mozilla plans to add artificial intelligence features to its Firefox web browser. At the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman shared their vision for the future of the web with WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims. Plus, new research questions how much screens before bed actually delay sleep. Zoe Thomas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, May 31st. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:40.0

Many of us have heard we shouldn't look at our phones, tablets, or other screens before bed,

0:46.0

because it will hurt our sleep.

0:48.0

Some researchers now say it isn't that simple,

0:51.0

and are questioning how much the dreaded blue light from our devices

0:55.8

actually delays sleep. We'll find out what new research on the topic says.

1:00.9

And then, what does the expansion of generative artificial intelligence mean for the future of the web?

1:07.0

The CEO of Mozilla and the president of the Mozilla Foundation shared their thoughts at the W.S.J's Future of Everything Festival.

1:15.6

We'll have highlights from that conversation.

1:18.6

We're starting with new rules for sleep and screens. In the early 2010s, Michael Gratasar,

1:28.0

a clinical psychologist, was among a group of researchers who proposed that bright light from screens at night could delay the circadian

1:36.1

rhythm, the biological clocks inside our cells that time when we sleep and wake.

1:42.1

He co-authored a review published in the journal

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