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Monday March 3, 2025. 11:50 PM
Microsoft has introduced Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI assistant for doctors that integrates dictation and ambient listening tools to automate clinical documentation, including notes, referrals, and post-visit summaries. The tool is set to launch in May in the U.S....
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest 'at least' $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company's network of semiconductor factories....
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett urged the rehiring of Pat Gelsinger, who was abruptly fired two months ago, arguing he should 'finish the job he has aptly handled over the past few years.' 'Pat Gelsinger did a great job resuscitating the technology development team,' Barrett...
The world's biggest call center company is using artificial intelligence to 'neutralise' Indian accents for Western customers. From a report: Teleperformance said it was applying real-time AI software on phone calls in order to increase 'human empathy' between two people on...
Silicon Valley, the place that did more than any other to pioneer artificial intelligence, is the most exposed to its ability to automate work. That's according to an analysis by researchers at the Brookings Institution, a think tank, which matched the tasks that OpenAI's...
Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises [non-paywalled link]. A new report titled 'Foundations' identifies the root cause -- 'it is difficult to build almost anything,...
U.S. publishers are increasingly abandoning paperback editions of nonfiction books, eliminating a traditional second chance for authors to reach readers with lower-priced versions of their work. New adult nonfiction paperback titles plummeted 42% between 2019 and 2024...
Job placement rates have declined at all top U.S. business schools [non-paywalled source] since 2021, leaving MBA graduates anxious about their expensive degrees' return on investment. Harvard Business School, which produced Wall Street titans like Bill Ackman and Ray Dalio, ...
Nvidia and Broadcom are conducting manufacturing tests using Intel's advanced 18A chip production process, according to Reuters, signaling potential confidence in the struggling chipmaker's contract manufacturing ambitions. The previously unreported tests could lead to...
Speaking of some concept devices that Lenovo has unveiled, the company today teased its ThinkBook 'codename Flip' AI PC Concept at Mobile World Congress, featuring a flexible 18.1-inch OLED display that can transform between three configurations: a traditional 13.1-inch...
Daniel Parris: Some TV shows take a while to 'get good.' Modern classics like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Community, and Bojack Horseman are notorious for 'starting slow' and are often recommended with a disclaimer like 'Give it a few episodes; I promise it gets good!' At the...
China aims to commercialize nuclear fusion technology for use in emissions-free power generation by 2050, according to the country's state-owned atomic company. From a report: China National Nuclear Corp., which runs an experimental device dubbed the 'artificial sun,' could...
Apple users noticed a change in 2023, 'when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot,' noted the film blog Screen Slate: At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot...
'TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,' reports InfoWorld. But also being developed is a compiler named trapc 'intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler...
It's a feature-length film 'rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,' reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow ...
What's Linux's marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story: 11/24: 2.03% 12/24: 2.29% 01/25: 2.06% 02:25: 1.45% 'The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use...' reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error: According to ...
Lenovo demonstrated 'a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power,' reports CNBC, emphasizing that 'These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available.' But 'Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, has a...
Despite a January announcement that America would explore the idea of a national digital asset stockpile, the exact cryptocurrecies weren't specified. Today on social media the president posted that it would include bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana's SOL token and Cardano's ADA,...
Sunday March 2, 2025. 11:12 PM
Earth's core 'burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,' the New Yorker reminds us — enough to 'satisfy the entire world's energy needs' with a power source that's carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal...
'Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world's simplest materials,' reports the Washington Post — ice. When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up,...
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