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Monday October 28, 2024. 05:44 AM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: Ever wondered why some of your Instagram videos tend to look blurry, while others are crisp and sharp? It's because, on Instagram, the quality of your video apparently depends on how many views it's getting. Here's part...
Communications of the ACM checks in on the quest for room-temperature superconductivity. 'Time and time again, physicists have announced breakthroughs that were later found to be irreproducible, in error, or even fraudulent.' But 'The issue is once again simmering...' In...
When it comes to introducing liability for software products, 'the EU and U.S. are taking very different approaches,' according to Lawfare's cybersecurity newsletter. 'While the U.S. kicks the can down the road, the EU is rolling a hand grenade down it to see what happens.'...
'Friction between bosses and their employees over the terms of their return shows no signs of abating,' reports the Los Angeles Times. But there's one big loophole... About 80% of organizations have put in place return-to-office policies, but in a sign that many managers are ...
Sunday October 27, 2024. 11:06 PM
Boeing received an email from the chief pilot at Ethiopian Airlines on December 1, 2018 with several questions, reports the New York Times (alternate URL here). 'in essence the pilot was asking for direction. If we see a series of warnings on the new 737 Max, he posed, what...
A writer for the New York Times editorial board argues we don't yet fully understand the impact of warehouses. 'Thanks to the rise of online shopping and the proximity to so many American doorsteps, warehouses have become a major source of blue-collar employment,' both in...
'In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions,' reports CNN. 'Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center...' According to local media reports,...
In Iceland, 'a volcanic system has awoken after an 800-year slumber,' according to a multimedia CNN Special Report. 'But in another part of Iceland, scientists and engineers are hoping to harness magma's immense power to solve the planet's biggest problem...' It all started...
SpaceNews reports: SpaceX's Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a 'catch' landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online, apparently inadvertently, by Elon Musk... In the audio, one person, not identified, described an...
This week Google-backed Anthropic announced its upgraded AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet could 'perform tasks like navigating web browsers, filling forms, and manipulating data.' Now Google plans something similar for Chrome, reports 9to5Linux.com: According to The Information,...
The cost of cleaning up the U.K.'s largest nuclear site, 'is expected to spiral to £136 billion' (about $176 billion), according to the Guardian, creating tension with the country's public-spending watchdog. Projects to fix the state-owned buildings with hazardous and...
SFGate spills the secrets of Disneyland's 'Enchanted Tiki Room' and its lifelike animatronic singing birds — Jose, Fritz, Michael and Pierre — 'whose movements were perfectly synced with the audio track.' 'Beneath the room, the heartbeat of the attraction is a $1 million inst...
'Google essentially disappeared us from the internet,' says the couple who created price-comparison site Foundem in 2006. Google's search results for 'price comparison' and 'comparison shopping' buried their site — for more than three years. Today the BBC looks at their...
'Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world's most valuable company on Friday...' reports Reuters, 'powered by insatiable demand for its specialized artificial intelligence chips.' Nvidia's stock market value briefly touched $3.53 trillion, slightly above Apple's $3.52 trillion,...
Friday October 25, 2024. 09:00 AM
UnitedHealth Group said a ransomware attack in February resulted in more than 100 million individuals having their private health information stolen. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first reported the figure on Thursday. TechCrunch reports: The ransomware...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: As the world emerged from the lockdowns of the covid-19 pandemic, many countries promised to rebuild their economies in a climate-friendly fashion, amid hopes the recovery effort could accelerate the global journey to...
Starting next week, Google Photos will label when an image was edited with AI. The Verge reports: 'Photos edited with tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser and Zoom Enhance already include metadata based on technical standards from The International Press Telecommunications...
The EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of Intel, dismissing the European Commission's appeal and ending a nearly two-decade-long case over allegations that Intel's rebates to computer makers were anticompetitive. Reuters reports: The European Commission had fined Intel for...
MojoKid writes: Intel has lifted the embargo on independent reviews of its new Core Ultra 200S series Arrow Lake-S processors, which mark a shift in its desktop CPU strategy with symmetrical core/thread counts (no Hyperthreading) and a dedicated 13 TOPS NPU. This series...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public. Like Goodreads, the app aims to create a community around content. But this time, instead of books,...
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