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Tuesday January 7, 2025. 04:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: John Deere is going all in on autonomous tractors. The company, which first introduced a driverless vehicle in 2022, said self-driving machines will revolutionize the field and address labor shortages. It will soon be selling...
A 65-year-old patient in the United States with underlying medical conditions has died from bird flu. According to NBC News, 'health officials considered the case to be the 'country's first severe human H5N1 infection.' From the report: The Louisiana Department of Health...
Google DeepMind is forming a new team to develop AI models capable of simulating the physical world. It's being led by former OpenAI Sora co-lead Tim Brooks and builds on Google's Gemini, Veo, and Genie projects. 'DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative...
At CES 2025, AMD unveiled the Z2, Z2 Go, and Z2 Extreme chipsets -- all powered by Zen 5 CPU cores and designed for handheld gaming PCs. IGN reports: The AMD Zen 2 Extreme, along with lower-specced cousins the Z2 and Z2 Go, are powered by Zen 5 CPU cores. While the Zen 2...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Defense Department said on Monday it has added Chinese tech giants including gaming and social media leader Tencent Holdings and battery maker CATL to a list of firms it says work with China's military. The list also ...
Toyota's Woven City, a $10 billion 'living laboratory' on the site of a former car factory, is set to welcome its first 100 residents in fall 2025. The first residents will be Toyota employees and affiliates, but the city aims to expand to include 'external inventors and...
Monday January 6, 2025. 11:20 PM
A forthcoming peer-reviewed study (PDF) from Rutgers University's Network Contagion Research Institute argues that TikTok surfaces fewer anti-CCP posts compared to Instagram and YouTube, despite higher user engagement with such content. It also found that heavy TikTok usage...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After ditching the traditional Dell XPS laptop look in favor of the polarizing design of the XPS 13 Plus released in 2022, Dell is killing the XPS branding that has become a mainstay for people seeking a sleek,...
Computer scientists are using hypothetical devices called 'oracles' to advance the field of computational complexity theory, exploring fundamental questions about problem-solving difficulty. These theoretical tools, which instantly provide correct yes-or-no answers to...
Communities across the U.S. experienced unprecedented warmth in 2024, with numerous cities breaking temperature records set just a year earlier. Phoenix recorded an average temperature of 90.5F and endured 70 days with highs at or above 110F, surpassing its previous record...
Intel, which has been fending off mounting competition in notebook processors, says a new range of chips will help enable the longest battery life available in laptops. From a report: New computers based on the latest version of its Core Ultra processors will go on sale...
Microsoft's Bing search engine has deployed a controversial interface change that mimics Google's appearance when users search for 'Google' or 'Google.com' while logged out, blog WindowsLatest reports. The new design adjusts the page layout to conceal Bing's search bar and...
Global investment in electrical grid infrastructure is surging amid rising demand for power and the shift to renewable energy, reaching nearly $400 billion in 2024 from just over $300 billion in 2020. The International Energy Agency forecasts spending will hit $600 billion...
Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 ahead of the operating system's end of support in October 2025. The company's consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,' positioning PC upgrades as...
The HDMI Forum has announced HDMI 2.2, doubling data bandwidth to 96Gbps through new 'Ultra96' cables while maintaining compatibility with existing connectors. The specification, scheduled for release to industry adopters in first-half 2025, promises higher resolutions and...
More than 1.6 million Americans have been jobless for at least six months, up 50% since late 2022, despite the economy adding over two million jobs last year, Labor Department data shows. The average job search now takes six months, primarily affecting high-paying sectors...
The climate crisis is 'wreaking havoc' on the planet's water cycle, with ferocious floods and crippling droughts affecting billions of people, a report has found. The Guardian: Water is people's most vital natural resource but global heating is changing the way water moves...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the AI startup has figured out how to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is now targeting superintelligent systems that could transform scientific discovery. In a blog post, Altman predicted AI agents could begin integrating into...
The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, the companies said Monday. From a report: The new company will continue to be traded publicly...
'Millions of computers are heading towards a security crisis as Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025,' writes BetaNews: 32 million devices — roughly 65 percent of household computers in Germany — are still running the aging operating system. In...
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