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lundi 28 octobre 2024, 17:08
Apple has updated the iMac lineup with an M4 chip. The new iMac, announced this morning, includes an M4 chip with an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU. The entry-level model costs $1,299 with two Thunderbolt USB-C 4 ports, while the higher-end models start at $1,499 and...
AmiMoJo shares a report: Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near 'human level robustness and accuracy.' But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences,...
Banks and regulators are warning that QR code phishing scams -- also known as 'quishing' -- are slipping through corporate cyber defences and increasingly tricking customers into giving up their financial details. From a report: Lenders including Santander, HSBC, and TSB...
Indonesia has banned sales of Apple's iPhone 16, citing the tech giant's failure to meet local investment requirements, the country's Ministry of Industry said. The ministry said Apple's local unit has not fulfilled the mandatory 40% local content threshold for smartphones,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog OMG Ubuntu: Having recently announced is own range of Raspberry Pi-branded SD cards (with support for command queuing on the Pi 5 and reliable read/write speeds) the company is now offering its own range of branded...
When SpaceX developed reusable boosters for its Falcon rockets, it helped cut costs of launches. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that last week's first-time catch of 'its huge Starship booster' could 'extend SpaceX's cost advantages, especially in launches to low-Earth...
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 ...
dimanche 27 octobre 2024, 23:06
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,...
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