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Wednesday October 2, 2024. 01:40 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of hundreds of thousands of harmful products on its platform, including pesticides and devices...
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The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder. The claim of the colossal price hike came in an email [PDF] filed in evidence by AT&T...
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Google has unveiled two new Chromebooks, loaded with fresh AI-powered features that are set to boost productivity and take the ChromeOS experience to a new level. With ChromeOS being a Linux-based operating system, the introduction of these features could make Microsoft...
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A Minnessota maker named Caleb Olson built the Poopcopter, an autonomous drone that seeks out dog-doo and retrieves it for disposal. He describes it as the 'world's first aerial bound self-guided dog poop removal system.' See it in action below. 'The Poopcopter is capable...
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OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma announced that he'll be joining Anthropic. 'Anthropic's approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs,' Kingma wrote in a post on X. '[L]ooking forward to contributing to Anthropic's mission of developing powerful AI...
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Tuesday October 1, 2024. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal prosecutors have charged a man for an alleged 'hack-to-trade' scheme that earned him millions of dollars by breaking into the Office365 accounts of executives at publicly traded companies and obtaining quarterly...
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The PyTorch Foundation, makers of the PyTorch machine learning framework, has launched torchao, a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low-bit dtypes, sparsity, and quantization. It is a toolkit of techniques that span both training and...
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Microsoft is bringing some new AI-powered Paint and Photos features to Copilot Plus PCs that could make creatives less reliant on more powerful image editing software. From a report: Generative Fill and Generative Erase -- which appear to be heavily inspired by similar AI...
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TL;DR: If you still don't have a mouse for your WFH setup, get this ergonomic Logitech MX mouse for $89.99 (reg. $99)! You know what part of you body seriously takes a beating after a long day or week of work? No, it's not your neck—though you need a more supportive office ...
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Neuroscientists have confirmed what every stoner already knows: music sounds better when you're high on weed. In a paper titled 'Exploring the interaction between cannabis, hearing, and music,' researchers from Toronto Metropolitan University reported results from a study in ...
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The home DNA testing boom is over, and 23andMe is running out of options.
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Could Vice President Harris have used these Bluetooth audio earrings to gain any debate advantage? Not on your life.
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The tales of New York City's rats are legendary. NY Rats are big and smart, and they have lots of babies. The city has a rat czar and recently held a rat summit to discuss the issue. Mayor Eric Adams was undoubtedly happy to talk about the rat problem rather than his own...
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French video game publisher Ubisoft has delayed its upcoming 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' by three months following disappointing sales of 'Star Wars Outlaws'. Ubisoft shares have hit a 10-year low as activist investor AJ Investments, backed by 10% of shareholders, pushes for...
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Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency –...
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Time's arrow may not be as unidirectional as we were led to believe. According to Scientific American, a group of quantum physical researchers at the University of Toronto had observed evidence of what they're calling 'negative time'—specifically, of photons exiting a...
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The World Wide Web Foundation, the organization whose mission has been to make the web safer and more accessible, has shut down, according to The Register. The foundation, which close its virtual doors Sept. 27, says its mission has largely been fulfilled and other...
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With Monday's closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, coal is no longer being used to provide electricity in the UK.
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Google is introducing a new 'Quick Insert' button on Chromebooks, offering contextual AI tools across the operating system. The feature debuts on Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus, replacing the traditional Caps Lock key. Older Chromebooks can access Quick Insert via a...
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Did you know there are Baldur’s Gate III cartoons? Well, of course there are cartoons — there are some great fan animations all over the web. But I mean official ones, made by Larian with the game’s voice actors? There are and there’s a brand new one celebrating the...
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