On May 7th, 2024 with 2 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a $20 million...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 1 comments
Pam Belluck reports via the New York Times: Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer's that would mean that up to a fifth...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 13 comments
At the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said today's ChatGPT chatbot "will be laughably bad" compared to what...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 21 comments
"With all the improvements in car safety over the decades, the recent addition of a plethora of high tech sensors and warnings comes with increased costs,"...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Amazon plans to start flying delivery drones in Arizona this year -- but don't count on them to bring you a...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 2 comments
Wayve, a UK-based AI firm focused on developing self-driving car technology, has secured a record $1.05 billion in funding, with Microsoft and Nvidia...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 37 comments
For the second time, the disgraced former CEO of Theranos has had her federal prison sentence shortened. In July, it was reduced by two years. Now, 40-year-old...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a major shake-up of its chip roadmap, Apple has announced a new M4 processor for today's iPad Pro...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 20 comments
The Pixel 8A is officially here. The 8A gets Google's latest processor, adds a bunch of new AI features, and still starts at $499 in the US. But the very best...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 9 comments
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console "within this fiscal year," so at some point before March 31, 2025. From a report: In a...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 88 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether Boeing failed to complete required inspections on 787...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 60 comments
Along with introducing a new iPad Air and iPad Pro during its Let Loose event, Apple quietly killed its ninth-gen iPad -- also known as the last iPad with a...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 7 comments
Financial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it's a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. So it was hard to...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 5 comments
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup borne out of a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and automotive supplier Aptiv, will pause its commercial...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 41 comments
Microsoft has deployed a generative AI model entirely divorced from the internet, saying US intelligence agencies can now safely harness the powerful...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 153 comments
Less than two weeks after President Biden signed a bill that will force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media app or face a ban...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 5 comments
The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed. From a report: On Tuesday, a coalition of law...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 116 comments
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is shrinking the MCU with a new mission to drop the number of Marvel TV series to two a year and the film output to no...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 70 comments
Apple revealed its refreshed iPad Pro lineup at its "Let Loose" virtual event Tuesday, featuring a slimmer design, OLED displays, and the company's latest M4...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 40 comments
Wesley Yin-Poole, reporting for IGN: Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 77 comments
The Register provides a retrospective look at how Microsoft "absorbed the handset division of Nokia" ten years ago, only to kill the unit two years later and...
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On May 7th, 2024 with 44 comments
"Out of an abundance of caution," Boeing says its historic Starliner launch has been postponed, citing an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: In April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they'd been targeted with...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 38 comments
Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have announced a 10-year deal that will provide the tech giant with more than 3.3 million tons of carbon...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 101 comments
Researchers have discovered a new attack that can force VPN applications to route traffic outside the encrypted tunnel, thereby exposing the user's traffic to...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 5 comments
Abner Li reports via 9to5Google: Since the launch of Health Connect in 2022, Google has been winding down the Google Fit developer APIs. Earlier this week,...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 58 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Pokemon Go players are creating a headache for members of the open source map tool OpenStreetMaps by adding...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 32 comments
Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the Twitter alternative he helped start. The announcement comes shortly after Dorsey unfollowed all but three...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 36 comments
The Rabbit R1 is one of the first standalone AI companion devices to hit the market, offering the ability to translate languages, identify objects in your...
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On May 6th, 2024 with 10 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week...
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In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle
