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lundi 23 juin 2025, 04:12
U.S. consumers 'rank problems with public electric vehicle charging and the time it takes to recharge as their top two reasons for rejecting electric vehicles,' writes the New York Times, citing figures from data analytics firm J.D. Power. But are things getting better?...
The developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk releases twice-a-year rankings of programming language popularity. This week they also released a handy graph showing the movement of top 20 languages since 2012. Their current rankings for programming language popularity... 1....
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI's $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman's device startup io) from its website and YouTube page....
dimanche 22 juin 2025, 23:34
'The worlds of Linux and Windows finally came together in real life...' writes The Verge: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That all changed at a recent dinner hosted by Sysinternals...
With no one behind the steering wheel, a Tesla robotaxi passes Guero's Taco Bar in Austin Texas, making a right turn onto Congress Avenue. Today is the day Austin became the first city in the world to see Tesla's self-driving robotaxi service, reports The Guardian: Some...
How AI will reshape the future of work? The Washington Post looks at India's $280 billion call-center and 'business process outsourcing' industry, which employs over 3 million people. 2023 saw the arrival of a real-time 'accent-altering software' — now used by at least 42,000...
The goal isn't to stop generative music, but to make it traceable, reports the Verge — 'to identify it early, tag it with metadata, and govern how it moves through the system....' 'Detection systems are being embedded across the entire music pipeline: in the tools used to tra...
'When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity,' writes ScienceDaily. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, formed billions of years ago during fiery eruptions ...
As recently as 2021, GM 'all but eliminated' hybrids from its future product plans, reports the New York Times. 'But then a funny thing happened.' Car shoppers balked at the high prices of fully electric models and the challenges of charging them. In the last few years,...
alternative_right writes: We certainly weren't looking for it. What we have confirmed is that metals have their own intrinsic, natural ability to heal themselves, at least in the case of fatigue damage at the nanoscale.' While the observation is unprecedented, it's not...
An artist cancelled their Duolingo and Audible subscriptions to protest the companies' decisions to use more AI. 'If enough people leave, hopefully they kind of rethink this,' the artist tells the Washington Post. And apparently, many more people feel the same way... In...
The education-news site EdSurge published 'sponsored content' from Minecraft Education this month. 'Students light up when they create something meaningful,' the article begins. 'Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity lies at the heart of the human experience.' But...
'A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of Type 1 diabetes,' reports the New York Times. 'One year later, these 10 patients no longer need insulin. The other two patients need much lower doses.' The...
'Modern vehicles have quietly become rolling monuments to terrible user experience, trading intuitive physical controls for flashy but dangerous touchscreen interfaces,' argues the site Cars & Horsepower, decrying 'an industry-wide plague of poorly designed digital...
It's not just Amazon's CEO predicting AI will lower their headcount. 'Top executives at some of the largest American companies have a warning for their workers: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your job,' reports the Washington Post — including IBM, Salesforce, and...
ScienceAlert reports: Casino lighting could be nudging gamblers to be more reckless with their money, according to a new study, which found a link between blue-enriched light and riskier gambling behavior. The extra blue light emitted by casino decor and LED screens seems to ...
samedi 21 juin 2025, 23:10
BlueSky has grown from roughly 10 million users in early November to 36.79 million today — and its last 30 days of traffic looks very level. But instead of calling BlueSky's traffic 'level', right-leaning libertarian Megan McArdle argues instead that BlueSky's 'decline shows ...
'The carbon cost of asking an artificial intelligence model a single text question can be measured in grams of CO2...' writes the Washington Post. And while an individual's impact may be low, what about the collective impact of all users? 'A Google search takes about 10...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Over the past three years, companies have invested tens of billions of dollars toward making electric vehicles in the United States, buoyed by tax incentives aimed at helping American businesses compete with...
It's not dark matter, writes Space.com. But astronomers have discovered 'a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy. 'With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary...
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