Warm Water Melts 'Doomsday Glacier' Half a Mile Each Year, Finds Study Recent research led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered warm, high-pressure seawater causing significant melting under the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. "There are places where the water is almost at the pressure of the overlying ice, so just a little more pressure is needed to push up the ice," said lead author Eric Rignot, UC Irvine professor of Earth system science. "The water is then squeezed enough to jack up a column of more than half a mile of ice." Interesting Engin… How to improve cloud-based generative AI performance It’s Monday. You come into the office only to be met with a dozen emails from your system development teammates requesting to speak with you right away. It seems that the generative AI-enabled inventory management system you launched a week ago is frustrating its new users. It’s taking minutes, not seconds to respond. Shipments are now running late. Customers are hanging up on your service reps because they are taking too long to answer customer questions. Website sales are down by 20% due to p… Google wants judge, not jury, to decide upcoming antitrust case in Virginia Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising Where Were GM 4L80-E Transmissions Made & Are They Any Good? The General Motors 4L80-E heavy-duty transmission powered some of the company's most powerful vehicles throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Crypto Astrologers See Price Moves in the Stars They predict the ups and downs of Bitcoin based on planetary movements, and their super-secretive clientele listens. Dell XPS 13 (2024) review: An elegant stumble At a glance Expert's Rating Pros Elegant design Sleek and lightweight Snappy Windows Hello camera Great trackpad Cons Performance lags behind competitors Pricey next to faster alternatives Contentious keyboard Only two ports Our Verdict The Dell XPS 13 has been a force to reckon with some years, but this isn’t one of them. It’s performance lags behind its cheaper competitors, and it doesn’t lead … Microsoft’s new Surface laptops are bursting with AI power Microsoft launched its Surface Pro (2024) tablet and the Surface Laptop (2024) as part of a major coming-out party for both the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite as well as Windows on Arm, part of Microsoft’s evolution into an AI-centric company. Both the Surface Pro and the Surface Laptop are the consumer versions of the Surface Pro 10 for Business and the Surface Laptop 6 for Business , which debuted… RSA Conference Last Look: From VC Investing to Cybersecurity CEOs A snapshot look at the need to combat deepfake-fueled social engineering, the rise of a more grounded investment mindset, and the fight to find threats in wireless networks. Hidden vs. Disabled In UX Should you hide or disable a feature? You’ve probably been there before. Here are some considerations for hiding versus disabling, along with possible alternatives to improve UX. An upcoming part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com). OpenAI pauses ChatGPT voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson Johansson, who portrayed the voice of a computer program in 'Her,' was not behind OpenAI's 'Sky' voice assistant. Another actor provided the voice, OpenAI said. |
Apple Slashes iPhone Prices In China Amid Fierce Huawei Competition Apple is offering discounts of up to $318 on select iPhone models in China, hoping to "defend its position in the high-end smartphone market, where it faces increasing competition from local rivals such as Huawei," reports Reuters. From the report: The increased competitive pressure on Apple comes after Huawei last month introduced its new series of high-end smartphones, the Pura 70, following the launch of the Mate 60 last August. Apple's previous discounting effort in February appears to have… Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts. Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Scale AI, a company that provides data-labeling services for training machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors including Amazon and Meta. The raise, which constitutes a mix of primary and secondary funding, comes amid a boom in AI venture capital megarounds, with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pe… Greek judge drops charges against 9 Egyptians accused of causing shipwreck that killed hundreds Nine Egyptian men have been acquitted by a Greek judge of charges related to a shipwreck that killed more than 500 migrants. The judge dismissed the case. Bashing governor in publicly funded campaign ads is OK in Connecticut legislative races, court rules EPA warns of increasing cyberattacks on water systems, urges utilities to take immediate action The EPA has urged water systems to take actions to protect the country's drinking water, warning that cyberattacks against U.S. water utilities are becoming increasingly frequent. The Paperless Post Founders Changed How We Party When James and Alexa Hirschfeld started Paperless Post 15 years ago, some saw its digital invitations as a fad. Instead, they have become a fixture of events and have spawned imitators. First companies sign up to AI safety standards on eve of Seoul summit Rishi Sunak says 16 international firms have committed, but standards have been criticised for lacking teeth The first 16 companies have signed up to the voluntary artificial intelligence safety standards introduced at the Bletchley Park summit , Rishi Sunak has said on the eve of the event’s follow-up in Seoul. But the standards have faced criticism for lacking teeth, with signatories committing… Proof-of-concept quantum repeaters bring quantum networks a big step closer Three teams – in Boston, in China, and the Netherlands – have simultaneously announced that they’ve figured out ways to store entangled photons without breaking the entanglement, a critical step in building quantum repeaters, and, thus, scalable quantum networks. The Boston team used silicon atoms embedded in diamond chips. A team in the Netherlands also used diamond crystals, but with nitrogen a… The Right Chemistry: Processed foods have many faces What do we mean by “ultra-processed” foods? A simple definition is elusive, but akin to pornography: You know it when you see it. Pivoting your developer career into AI? Here's what to know Software developers can find many challenging and rewarding roles in the AI sector. Here's how to hone specific skills and set yourself up for success. SK Hynix teams up with TSMC to accelerate rollout of customized HBM4 solutions SK Hynix and TSMC have advanced their next-generation High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) mass production plans. |
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