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Wednesday April 24, 2024. 12:00 PM
Okian Warrior writes: For $10,000, you can now get a flamethrower mounted on a robotic dog. Just load the webpage and scroll down. I saw this on the news today. *Definitely* we need to have a conversation about where AI is going. The robot, called the Thermonator, is...
Decades after her dad’s iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There’s just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Interview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge...
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database...
While there are many free office tools on the market, few utilities are as powerful as Microsoft Office. And right now, you don’t have to break the bank to get it. Now through 4/30, we’re offering Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows or Microsoft Office Home &...
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a...
Construction has begun on a $12 billion high-speed rail project to connect Las Vegas and Los Angeles by the end of the decade. The project, backed by $3 billion in federal support, aims to reduce travel time to under two hours and significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions....
Bang & Olufsen has released just 200 units of its new-old CD changer, but it reminds us that a corporation can’t ever delete a physical, plastic disc out of your great big honking CD collection.
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the...
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own. From a report: The FTC received more than 26,000 public comments in the...
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! Updated The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, new A.I. technology is...
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).…
After years of negotiations, the Senate approved a bill to force TikTok to either divest from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban.
Nicola Davis reports via The Guardian: If every day appears to go in a blur, try seeking out new and interesting experiences, researchers have suggested, after finding memorable images appear to dilate time. Researchers have previously found louder experiences seem to last...
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter. CNBC reports: In a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Frist, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Ellison...
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws A revision to America's healthcare privacy rules aims to better protect abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure — and other types of reproductive care, such...
Andy Greenberg reports via Wired: More than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthcare finally confirmed what cybercriminals, security researchers, and Bitcoin's...
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