American philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, the organization she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates. Read more... | Continue reading
On Friday, Earth was hit by the strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years. Intense solar activity sent bursts of radiation toward Earth, causing fluctuations in the upper atmosphere that led to disruptions in the power grid and radio blackouts, among other technologies and infrastr … | Continue reading
Ina Fried, Axios: OpenAI Monday announced a new flagship model, dubbed GPT-4o, that brings more powerful capabilities to all its customers, including smarter, faster real-time voice interactions. The presentation was broadcast live and it is worth watching, particularly the last … | Continue reading
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” —Aldous Huxley Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Today's links AI "art" and uncanniness: "A meaning that does not stem from organizing intention." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: … | Continue reading
Hello GPT-4o OpenAI announced a new model today: GPT-4o, where the o stands for "omni". It looks like this is the gpt2-chatbot we've been seeing in the Chat Arena the past few weeks. GPT-4o doesn't seem to be a huge leap ahead of GPT-4 in terms of "intelligence" - whatever that m … | Continue reading
Since April, millions of phishing emails have been sent through the Phorpiex botnet to conduct a large-scale LockBit Black ransomware campaign. [...] | Continue reading
"Literally was stressing." Gardener demonstrates cost-effective hack to transform discarded materials into plant-watering system: 'This is amazing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
From the author of The Deep Sky comes a new anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization… The post Read an Excerpt From Yume Kitasei’s The Stardust Grail appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, founded by MIT professors and former postdocs, has turned the promise of RNAi research into a new class of powerful therapies. | Continue reading
A new Wicked trailer is coming Wednesday, and with that announcement comes a brief featurette showing director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) sharing his excitement for the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical—but mostly focuses on stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, … | Continue reading
In Germany’s capital, Sonnenallee is colloquially known as Arab Street. The avenue in Berlin’s Neuköllin district, is lined with every kind of Arab-owned commerce you can imagine—bakers, butchers, shisha cafés, antique shops, and electronics dealers from the city’s Middle Eastern … | Continue reading
Last week the CEO said Tesla will spend $500 million expanding the charger network. | Continue reading
Isn’t it odd that characters in television crime dramas never seem to have seen any television crime dramas? The spouse always takes offence when the police interview them, as if they didn’t know that the investigators ought to interview everyone connected with the crime. The fam … | Continue reading
Perovskite solar cells are getting ready to make that giant leap from the lab bench to your rooftop array. The post Record-Setting Perovskite Solar Cells Close The Benchtop-To-Rooftop Gap appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I flew though LAX yesterday and forgot how hostile free airport WiFi used to be in the mid-2000s. LAX uses Boingo Wireless (aka Earthlink dialup's follow-up venture) which first tries to sell you a $15/mo plan (that used to be adopted by other airports). To get | Continue reading
AT&T submitted "flawed and erroneous assertions," California agency judge says. | Continue reading
I really did not want to run this morning, but I ran anyway. Coffee and fruit breakfast, Morning Prayer, then a trip to Kidlington for a lunch at Church House, then home to clean up marking. Not a thrill-packed day, but it accomplished what was required. | Continue reading
OpenAI's ChatGPT platform just became a whole lot more interactive, with the launch of GPT-4o. This "flagship model" analyzes audio, visual and/or text input, providing answers via a real-time conversation with a very human-sounding AI agent. Continue Reading Category: Technology … | Continue reading
OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly spe … | Continue reading
Looks like Din and Grogu are going to encounter a very familiar face to sci-fi fans The post Sigourney Weaver in Talks to Join Star Wars Film, The Mandalorian & Grogu appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
How far would you go to discover who you are? | Continue reading
There is a speculation that the Perfect Dark reboot could show up at the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9.… Continue reading Perfect Dark looking more and more ripe for a summer announcement The post Perfect Dark looking more and more ripe for a summer announcement appeared first on … | Continue reading
Latte done, now what. 10:27, and already. Time isn’t stopping and neither is this writer. This is enlivening […] | Continue reading
The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn’s breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at … | Continue reading
GameStop (GME) shares soared to around 110% on Monday and were halted several times due to market volatility after the… Continue reading Why GameStop (GME) shares have been halted after recent price surge The post Why GameStop (GME) shares have been halted after recent price surg … | Continue reading
Some agricultural groups back the axing of this occurrence from clean water enforcement policy. New legislation could have major implications for state's clean water enforcement — here's what could happen first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
GPT-4o demo shows new AI model singing a bedtime story, detecting user's facial expressions. | Continue reading
Bridgy Fed's integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse is now in public beta, and you can try it for yourself! The post You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts appeared first on We Distribute. | Continue reading
It's still unclear why WBD wouldn't have done this in the first place. | Continue reading
5-13-24 Home. 09:07… time to build. Latte and a quiet loft. Communicating with Nurse, driving out there a […] | Continue reading
Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it’s causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of … | Continue reading
AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elas … | Continue reading
Elon Musk accused Australia of trying to have "jurisdiction over all of Earth." | Continue reading
Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone—and a new chance to deliver a story that’s also wildly malleable in q … | Continue reading
Who’d have thought? In many instances, corporate malfeasance isn’t necessarily the result of “a few bad actors” doing evil stuff. …the fault often lies with managers who set unrealistic deadlines, production targets, or other objectives that lead decent people to take shortcuts t … | Continue reading
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: "...how can someone actually make something useful out of | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura […] | Continue reading
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Over the past few years I’ve published assessments of the hydrogen strategies of multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, the EU, and the Canadian province of Ontario, among others. News of the German chancellor coming, cap i … | Continue reading
Linux kernel 6.9 has been released after several months of attentive development. Linux founder Linus Torvalds announced the final release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in his usual relaxed, laissez faire style. He notes that while kernel contributors have reported “a few regr … | Continue reading
OpenAI has announced that it will demo updates for its new AI chatbot and GPT-4 today (May 13) but stopped… Continue reading OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine The post OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine appear … | Continue reading
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow thi … | Continue reading
“Nearly half of Republicans believe California ‘not really American.’ ” — LA Times - - - After being jolted awake by yet another earthquake, I take a deep breath and compose myself. Ahhh… the sweet smell of smog. I rise, brew up a pot of fair trade coffee, and inject my arm with … | Continue reading
An unusual spherical observatory sits on the highest point of a 200-foot diameter earth mound in Dublin, Ohio. The Watch House is constructed out of copper, bronze, and stucco, and features holes in the spherical roof in the shape of everyday objects. A reference to the expanding … | Continue reading
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Google and Apple have worked together to create an industry specification – Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers – for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both Android and iOS if such a device is unknowingly being used to track them. This will … | Continue reading