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Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. John Mills, the app’s creator, wants it to be the one place to go for tracking disasters. He just needs all the data to do it.
Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse.
John Hoffman, a professional drummer born in Honolulu but residing in Shreveport, Louisiana, is the new drummer for Primus! The band announced its decision last week after months of searching and narrowing down the list of contenders from 6200 initial applicants, to nine...
Chatbots quickly surpassed human physicians in diagnostic reasoning — the crucial first step in clinical care — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine. The study suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLMs), which...
A pickup truck rear-ended an SUV in Layton, Utah, sending the large car onto a set of railroad tracks with a train headed its way. And fascinating footage released by the Utah Transit Authority shows what happened next. In a nutshell: 1) Driver for some reason backs up,...
Elizabeth Holmes can't stop innovating, even in prison — just ask her about the lactation rooms she created at the Federal Prison Camp she's in. The convicted Theranos fraudster, speaking to People magazine, wants everyone to know she's a prison reform hero while...
A few years ago we featured incredibly talented meteorologist Adam Krueger and his series, 'sneaking words into the weather.' But on the heels of rapper Kendrick Lamar's brilliant—and record-breaking (133 million people tuned in!)—Super Bowl halftime performance, I...
Kyle Gordon has done it again, I fear. The NYC-based musical comedian has executed a masterful leap from the comedy club circuit to a potential shot at Weird Al Yankovic's throne, propelled in large part by his mega-viral hit Planet of the Bass. — Read the rest The post...
Whilst Agile has revolutionized the way we work in software development, the pace of development is fast and delivery can feel relentless. It’s typical for developer teams to struggle to find dedicated time for R&D and to catch up with the persistent technical debt --...
It's only fair, after all. In case you somehow missed it, Trump has been fixated on the prospect of the United States acquiring Greenland, loudly thinking out loud at best and threatening elected officials at worst. If you're Danish and worried about Trump claiming a chunk...
Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions FOSDEM 2025 LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.…
Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions FOSDEM 2025 LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Australia's Department of the Treasury has found that Microsoft's Copilot can easily deliver return on investment, but staff exposed to the AI assistant came away from the experience less confident it will help them at work. The...
There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton nuclear weapon. Here are its possible impact points.
Many people have more than one Apple Account, and it can be frustrating to have to bounce from one to another just to manage digital purchases. If only there was a way to consolidate everything into one account... Well, now there is! Apple has quietly launched a new option...
OpenAI will integrate “o3” into GPT-5 instead of releasing it separately, streamlining adoption while signaling a shift toward fewer, more controlled AI models amid rising competition and cost pressures. “In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system...
Tech shows customers more humanity than its human staff It doesn't sleep, it doesn't eat, and it doesn't get sick of dealing with incompetent customers.…
There is a sensible logic to Apple focusing on creating and improving apps that work on its own devices, but the company sometimes has to acknowledge the fact that not every phone and tablet out there is an idevice. The latest app release from the iPhone-maker is proof of...
Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since then it’s been released in drip-feed form with new features...
Thread synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently. The Mutex and Semaphore classes in.NET represent two of the most important related concepts. Let’s understand what both of these do and when we should use them. Before ...
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