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Tuesday March 4, 2025. 01:56 PM
As scientists have refined the projected path of asteroid 2024 YR4, the odds of it striking the Earth and potentially vaporizing a large city have been as high as 3.1%. NASA now puts the odds between 0.16 and 0.27%, on par with many near-earth asteroids that the Planetary...
In the latest embarrassing mistake, Citi credited an account with $81 trillion instead of $280. The company acknowledged to Business Insider that an 'inputting error' had been made but would not confirm the exact numbers reported by the Financial Times. Instead, Citi framed...
Chaos continues in the DOGE sphere as remote federal workers who survived the mass firings have been forced to return to offices — many reportedly without lights, Wi-Fi, electricity and desks. And to some that don't even exist. Last month, Donald Trump warned federal worke...
New research from Darktrace finds that 78 percent of CISOs say that AI-powered threats are having a significant impact on their organizations, a five percent increase from 2024. There's more confidence about dealing with them though, more than 60 percent now say that they...
A popular, long-running, free-to-play multiplayer zombie games is being forced offline by new UK legislation. Urban Dead, which launched in July 2005, will shut down on March 14, 2025, due to the Online Safety Act's requirements for social and gaming websites where users...
Australian company Cortical Labs launched the world's first commercial biological computer made from human brain cells fused with silicon hardware. As reported in New Atlas, the CL1 uses 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on electrode arrays to create dynamic neural networks...
Fierce competition between two Tokyo pencil makers led to a 'Golden Age' of Japanese pencil manufacturing from 1952-1967. As detailed in this article from the St. Louis Art Supply website, Tombow launched the premium HOMO pencil in 1952, featuring an ultra-smooth core...
Monitoring of both remote and in-office employees is at an all-time high, a trend highlighted by federal workers being told to report their weekly accomplishments. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that 80% of companies are monitoring remote or ...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has claimed its V3 and R1 models achieve a theoretical daily cost-profit ratio of 545%, highlighting cost implications for enterprises adopting similar models from other cloud providers. In a GitHub post published over the weekend, DeepSeek...
One of the earliest digital transformation drivers was digitalization, in which organizations converted paper-based processes to digitized workflows. In ideal circumstances, paper documents became web or mobile forms, and workflows replaced handoffs. However, many...
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip is billed as the company’s first quantum computing processor. The excitement surrounding this million-qubit dream, with its unique architecture and reliance on exotic materials like indium arsenide, seems like a watershed moment in computing...
Teradata is adding vector support to its platform in the form of a new Enterprise Vector Store, an in-database offering, to enable and augment use cases that require retrieval augmented generation (RAG), such as agentic AI. Other features of Enterprise Vector Store include...
TL;DR: This 2-pack of MagSafe-compatible wallets integrates seamlessly with Apple Find My, holds up to 8 cards, blocks RFID skimmers, and even doubles as a phone stand—all for just $54.99 (reg. $79.98). Ok, picture this: You're halfway to your destination, running on...
Back in January, we told you about the all-new Smart Thermostat Essential from ecobee. Is it an innovative product? Not at all. However, this new thermostat doesn’t need to break new ground. Instead, it aims to offer a reliable experience at an affordable price. Quite...
Microsoft’s TypeScript 5.8, the latest version of the company’s strongly typed superset of JavaScript, has reached general availability (GA). However, one new feature introduced at the beta stage, a limited form of checking against conditional types in return statements, ...
Monday March 3, 2025. 11:54 PM
Microsoft is launching its new Dragon Copilot advanced voice assistant to help healthcare professionals with the burden of paperwork, long a point of frustration. Studies show that doctors spend nearly twice as much time on administrative work as they do seeing patients,...
DeepSeek is making waves in the AI industry with its bold claim of potential profit margins reaching 545%. In a recent report, the team behind the China-based company said that its generative AI models could yield extraordinary returns — though they acknowledge these...
In Moore, Oklahoma, a toddler named Bennett was playing with an old mobile phone and was delighted that even though the service plan was off, emergency calling was still operational. So, as one does, Bennett dialed 911 and requested 'emergency donuts.' — Read the rest The po...
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings. C and C++ are built around manual memory...
In the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists excavating Iron Age communities were surprised to find multiple skulls with huge spikes driven through the forehead all the way through the lower back of the cranium. Found at the Puig Castellar and Ullatsret sites, the...
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