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Friday December 13, 2024. 07:41 PM
A U.S. congressional commission issued a report to Congress calling for a Manhattan Project-style program to fund and develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in order to outpace China in its attempt at technological supremacy. AGI refers to an AI system equal to or...
Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved there are infinitely many primes that can be written in a specific...
Commits in the Git source-code management system are identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents — though the specific hash may change someday. The full hash is a 160-bit quantity, normally written as a 40-character hexadecimal string. While those strings are convenient ...
A new premium version of Google’s NotebookLM AI assistant is now available to Google Workspace customers. Google unveiled NotebookLM last year, initially under the name Project Tailwind, and began testing the AI-powered “notebook” with select users. NotebookLM lets...
In the early hours of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley's private jet touched down in Denver with a mission — to satisfy The King's craving for what might be the most decadent sandwich ever created. The Fool's Gold Loaf, a colossal creation from the Colorado Mine Company...
The enshittification of social media left her doomscrolling through a polarized feed, her brainrot deepening with every bratty meme war. Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster...
AI agents are fast becoming the buzz of the AI space as several companies make forays into the agentic AI realm. Now AI researchers at tech giant Microsoft have developed Droidspeak, a novel language designed to facilitate communication between AI agents. This innovation has ...
Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence systems trained on vast amounts of data that can understand and generate human language. These AI models use deep learning technology and natural language processing (NLP) to perform an array of tasks, including text...
French President Emmanuel Macron obviously didn't want to pick François Bayrou as his prime minister: the job interview reportedly went badly and the accouncement was made after Macron's own self-imposed deadline. But more right-leaning centrism it is for the increasingly...
In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state. —...
Republican snowflake Scott Jennings had a meltdown on CNN when Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers gently touched him on the arm during a roundtable discussion about grocery prices. 'Don't touch me!' the frigid MAGA panelist snapped, triggering a burst of laughter from...
Handling time in a networked environment is never easy. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been used to synchronize clocks across the internet for almost 40 years — but, as computers and networks get faster, the degree of synchronization it offers is not sufficient for...
IEEE Spectrum reports on the discovery and scanning of a 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal. Back then, it was a top of the line gadget for future-oriented businesspersons. It may now form a fantastic double-bill with another famed tech demo from that magical year. —...
Before a vaccine was developed in the 1950s, Polio killed millions and left many survivors so weak they depended upon machines to breathe. The last person to require an iron lung, Paul Alexander, died March 13, 2024 at the age of 78—a sad but heartening reminder that...
Google has unveiled a new tool to access AI agents that can automate workflows and help workers find information held across their organization. AI agents have become a major focus for software vendors in recent months, including Atlassian, Microsoft, Salesforce, and...
This is a viral example of pareidolia, a psychological phenomonenon that causes us to see meaningful things in nebulous stimuli, most famously faces. But the caption it comes with—'Does this image upset you?'—is even cleverer. In blacksmithing, 'upsetting' refers to the...
Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)’s 2024 Global AI Vibrancy Tool report highlights a stark disparity in AI development between the U.S. and China. The report positions the U.S. as the unrivaled global leader in artificial...
Oh my horses, there's going to be an M4 MacBook Air. Great googly moogly in a bouncy castle! And it might have a better camera. Jumpin' jellyfish on a unicycle! References in the latest edition of MacOS reveal the device's forthcoming availability. — Read the rest The post M...
The CentOS Project has announced the general availability of CentOS Stream 10. See the release notes for information on new features, changes, and removed software. The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 repository is also available, and will be adding minor...
As we approach the end of the year it's time to start wondering what the next one will have in store. As always we'll be running a series of pieces looking at what industry experts think will be key tech industry trends for 2025. We start with a look at quantum, which is...
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