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Monday November 18, 2024. 10:04 AM
Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study testing 50 licensed physicians to see whether ChatGPT improved their diagnoses, reports the New York TImes. The results? 'Doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did...
The Tiobe index tries to track the popularity of programming languages by counting the number of search results for the language's name followed by the word 'programming' (on 25 different search engines). And this month there were some surprises... By TIOBE's reckoning,...
A new six-episode Dune series premiers tonight on HBO and Max — a prequel to the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune movies set 10,000 years before the birth f Paul Atreides. The Hollywood Reporter writes that it 'draws on source material from the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by...
Slashdot unixbhaskar writes: Linus has released a fresh Linux kernel for public consumption. Please give it a try and report any glitches to the maintainers for improvement. Also, please do not forget to express your appreciation to those tireless folks who did all the hard...
This week Alphabet CEO Sundar Picahi assured investors that their long-term AI focus and investment (and a 'commitment to innovation') 'are paying off,' reports the Associated Press. Alphabet's stock has already soared 20% this year, and it's 'still thriving' as the company...
Sunday November 17, 2024. 11:52 PM
On a small network of islands north of Seattle, Washington, San Juan County just completed its first full year of 32-hour workweeks, reports CNN. And Tuesday the county released a report touting 'a host of positive outcomes — from recruiting to retention to employee...
Nyx is a new reusable space capsule that 'safely and affordably carries cargo to and from space stations,' according to the web page of its European-based manufacturer, The Exploration Company, 'launching from any heavy launcher worldwide.' And the company 'just closed a...
'Here's how Apple's next major product will work,' writes Bloomberg's Mark Gurman: The company has been developing a smart home command center that will rival products like the Amazon Echo Hub and Google Nest Hub... The product will run many of Apple's core apps, like...
'Amazon is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home,' reports Bloomberg, a move they say shows Amazon's 'determination' to enforce a five-days-a-week return to the office. The company recently told employees with disabilities that it was...
A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from Google's Gemini AI: 'This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on...
A reusable uncrewed spaceplane was unveiled this week for delivering and returning cargo from the Chinese Tiangong space station. It was built by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute (part of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China). (See YouTube ...
Last year 30,000 people moved into central Florida's Polk County — more than to any other county in America. Its largest city has just 112,641 people, living a full 35 miles east of the 3.1 million residents in the metropolitan area around Tampa. But the Associated Press...
Chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe 'and in any hypothetical ones beyond it' can be estimated by a new theoretical model, reports the Royal Astronomical Society. Since stars are a precondition for the emergence of life, the new research predicts that a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. This year the world ...
Google's transistion to Safe Coding and memory-safe languages 'will take multiple years,' according to a post on Google's security blog. So 'we're also retrofitting secure-by-design principles to our existing C++ codebase wherever possible,' a process which includes 'working ...
'The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena,' reports the Associated Press, 'but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. 'The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified...
Remember those 43 monkeys that escaped from a U.S. research lab? They've caught 35 of them — but haven't yet caught the other eight. But even worse... The Independent reports that now another animal escape has led to 'reports of two large emus running riot...' The birds'...
Saturday November 16, 2024. 11:34 PM
Google appears to be working on an email-forwarding alias system, according to the blog Android Authority, giving users a new way to 'shield' their main email address. The site performed a teardown on the newest Google Play Services' APK looking for work-in-progress code,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Kyiv Independent: The United States will partner with Ukraine to transition Ukraine's coal-fired plants to small modular nuclear reactors, and to use them to help decarbonize its steel industry, the countries announced on...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger. In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten 'more than 15 million signups in...
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