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Tuesday October 8, 2024. 10:30 PM
Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36 Today we remember Ada Lovelace Day, famed for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine.…
The District of Columbia and 13 states sued social media giant TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of knowingly creating an addictive product and getting children hooked with 'digital nicotine.' From a report: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb brought Washington's suit ...
Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 TensorWave on Tuesday secured $43 million in fresh funding to cram its datacenter full of AMD's Instinct accelerators and bring a new inference platform to market.…
Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the 'tabs versus spaces' ring. From a report: The debate has vexed engineers for decades -- is it best to indent code with tabs or spaces? Osterman, a four-decade veteran of Microsoft, was Team...
When the Samsung T7 Shield launched in 2022, we loved it for its quick 10Gbps speed, tough outer shell, and good looks—enough to award it a 4.5 out of 5 rating and one of our coveted Editor’s Choice awards. And right now during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale, you...
A long-shot congressional challenger in Virginia is so determined to debate the Democratic incumbent one more time that he created an AI chatbot to stand in for the candidate in case he's a no-show. From a report: Less than a month from election day, the race for Virginia's...
What does IT glimpse but a dating app on your wee little screen If you're using iPhone Mirroring at work: It's time to stop, lest you give your employer's IT department the capability to snoop through the list of apps you have on your phone — dating apps, those tracking...
While he doesn’t refer to it by name, Carlson is clearly promoting Project 2025 in a paid ad read—despite the unpopular policy plan supposedly having been wound down after Donald Trump distanced himself from it.
If you’re surfing the internet today, you might notice that Amazon is having a sale. A big sale. It’s a Big Deal, as it were. And we’ve got tons of deal roundups for you to check out. This stuff keeps the lights on for tech websites. But allow me to take a moment to...
Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate.…
Samsung has issued a rare apology after saying it expected to post just $6.78 billion in operating profit for the most recent quarter, about $900 million short of analyst expectations. From a report: 'We have caused concerns about our fundamental technological...
Chromebook deals are often about compromise. But there are two Chromebooks on sale for Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days that I don’t think entail any tradeoffs at all: They’re both solid Chromebooks for less than $200. I found two, both on Amazon: the Lenovo IdeaPad 3i for ...
A Nintendo Switch modder has entered a legal battle against Nintendo without legal representation, Torrent Freak reports. Ryan Daly, alleged owner of Modded Hardware, denied all allegations in a lawsuit filed by Nintendo in July. Nintendo claims Modded Hardware offers...
And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion Updated The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free, according to those living in the aftermath - and the internet...
And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion Updated The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free, according to those living in the aftermath - and the satellite...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Wikipedia's 'Timeline of the Far Future' is one of my favorite webpages from the internet's pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on the morning of December 22, 2010. 'Certain events in the future of the universe can be...
Wired: Last spring, At an event in New York City, Robert Triefus, then Gucci's CEO of Vault -- the brand's virtual marketplace -- argued the recent deflation in hype around the metaverse was just a brief hiccup. 'I see it more as a correction,' he told the crowd. 'We're now...
How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan's most powerful AI supercomputer.…
Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.
This month’s massive Windows 11 2024 Update comes with all kinds of helpful new features and improvements, but the problematic rollout leaves a lot to be desired. Microsoft certainly dropped the ball. Just last week, we reported on the fact that Windows 11 24H2 is causing...
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