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Friday August 23, 2024. 11:44 PM
Algorithm just a fancy way to collude using private info, prosecutors say The Justice Department and the Attorneys General of eight states in the US on Friday filed a civil antitrust complaint against real estate service firm RealPage for providing landlords with software...
After a brief delay, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 hit shelves earlier this month—but to everyone’s surprise, the first processors came with caveats. Despite offering plenty to like, the $279 Ryzen 5 9600X, $359 Ryzen 7 9700X, $499 Ryzen 7 9900X, and $649 Ryzen 9 9950X also sported ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: You may find yourself smelling crayons in the aisles of stores soon -- if Crayola's chief executive Pete Ruggiero has his way. In July, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a trademark to the arts and crafts ...
For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed If you want to scale a large language model (LLM) to a few thousand users, you might think a beefy enterprise GPU is a hard requirement. However, at...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Language models generate text based on statistical probabilities. This led to serious false accusations against a veteran court reporter by Microsoft's Copilot. German journalist Martin Bernklau typed his name and location into...
Doctors have begun trialling the world's first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, as experts hailed its 'groundbreaking' potential to save thousands of lives. From a report: Lung cancer is the world's leading cause of cancer death, accounting for about 1.8m deaths every...
China's world-leading clean energy boom has passed another benchmark, with its wind and solar capacity surpassing a target set by President Xi Jinping almost six years earlier than planned. From a report: The nation added 25 gigawatts of turbines and panels in July,...
'I am not terminating my campaign, I am simply suspending it,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., before he endorsed Donald Trump.
Because everyone has a box of mystery computer bits they simply can't part with Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took a trip down memory lane this week by building a functioning PDP-11 minicomputer from parts found in a tub of hardware.…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds expressed disappointment with the slow adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit China. In a conversation with Verizon executive Dirk Hohndel, Torvalds said, 'I was expecting updates to be faster, but part...
The uber-luxe Première Sound Watch is here to join the cheapo wired buds revolution, despite being the very opposite.
Amazon is canceling its PhotosPlus subscription service for the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition, effectively ending the device's main selling point. The company will automatically cancel all PhotosPlus subscriptions on September 12 and cease support for the service on September...
The Big Bad Film Fest, now in its second year, is like a big, muscle-bound hug for Very Online action-movie obsessives who brought it to life.
David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, recently announced on Discord that the AI image generation tool will soon be free to everyone. Originally conceived in 2022 as a Discord bot, Midjourney evolved into a website in 2023 where users can type in descriptive prompts that are turned...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Software engineers may have to develop other skills soon as AI takes over many coding tasks. That's according to Amazon Web Services' CEO, Matt Garman, who shared his thoughts on the topic during an internal fireside chat held in June,...
A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source After a couple of years in development, Linux Deepin 23 arrives, with some new shiny that throws shade on the leading Western desktop distros.…
If you’ve ever struggled with replacing your PC’s graphics card, an upcoming Asus motherboard offers some really welcome news: a new retention mechanism that unlocks the card without the need for an awkwardly placed lever or switch. The new mechanism is integrated into...
The Justice Department on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a property management software provider, alleging it enabled a collusion among landlords to inflate rents for millions of Americans. From a report: The complaint claims the Richardson, Texas-based...
If you’re heading off to college soon and still don’t have a reliable laptop to get you through your studies, here’s a great deal for you: Lenovo’s Yoga 7i 2-in-1 laptop is down to $680 at Best Buy, a significant discount of $370 off its original price. This laptop...
Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, The Information reported Friday, citing sources. From the report: Meta told employees at the company's Reality Labs division to stop work on the device this...
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