California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 45 Days An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 69 of the past 75 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z. Jacobson continues to track California's renewables performance – and it's still exciting. In an update today on Twitter (X), Jacobson reports that California has now exceeded 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 45 days… C# 13 enhances params, introduces extension types C# 13, a planned update to Microsoft’s popular general purpose language for .NET development, is set to enhance params parameters to give developers more flexibility, and to introduce extension types, a new kind of type that provides extension members for an underlying type. Microsoft detailed the plans for C# 13 on May 21 . Beginning with C# 13, the params parameter type can be any of the types used with collection expressions such as Span , List , and IEnumerable . Developers also can use the… All About The 2024 Zero DSR/X Electric Motorcycle The 2024 Zero DSR/X is a rising star in the electric motorcycle community, but is it any good, and how long will it last? Here's everything you need to know. C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. Purble Place: the mystery behind gen Z’s favourite forgotten video game An entire generation nurses fond nostalgic memories of the gaudy kids’ game that came packed in with Windows Vista. But who actually made it? If you had a PC in the 2010s, you probably owned a copy of Purble Place. The gaudy kids’ game came with every copy of Windows Vista and 7. It was a simple, three-title package: Purble Pairs was a basic tile memory game; Purble Shop had the player design a m… EU AI Act Clears Final Hurdle to Become Global Landmark The law becomes the first major global regulation on artificial intelligence that will have far-reaching implications for businesses and organizations. 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. Generative AI at reasonable prices: Tenstorrent's strategy according to Chief CPU Architect Wei-han Lien With Generative AI and other High-Performance Computing (HPC) demands surging, the costs for AI hardware, infrastructure, and energy consumption are also on the rise. Many companies including OpenAI are finding it getting harder and harder to foot the hefty bill. |
Apple Says US Antitrust Lawsuit Should Be Dismissed Apple said on Tuesday it plans to ask a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department and 15 states in March that alleged the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices. From a report: In a letter to U.S. District Judge Julien X. Neals in New Jersey, Apple said "far from being a monopolist, Apple faces fierce competition from well-established rivals, and the complaint fails to allege that Apple has the ability to charge supra-compet… Apple and Île-de-France Mobilités introduce Navigo for iPhone and Apple Watch Apple and Île-de-France Mobilités today introduced an easy way for customers to add a Navigo card to Apple Wallet to ride transit in the Paris region. Paytm counts costs of regulatory clampdown as losses swell One 97 Communications, the parent company of India’s leading digital payments platform Paytm, reported a widening of its consolidated net loss to $66.1 million in the quarter ending March, compared to a loss of $20.11 million in the same quarter last year as it grappled with a regulatory clampdown. For the full fiscal year 2024, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Petrochemical company fined more than $30 million for 2019 explosions near Houston The U.S. Justice Department said a Texas petrochemical company has agreed to pay more than $30 million over two explosions in 2019 that injured workers and forced thousands to evacuate. The 36 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (May 2024) Black Twitter: A People’s History, Shōgun, and Under the Bridge are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month. Microsoft’s new AI-powered Paste is way cooler than it should be PowerToys, the free suite of Microsoft user tools, has added a subtly powerful feature: Advanced Paste, which applies AI to a group of data that you’ve cut or copied, or wish to paste elsewhere. It’s a weird but surprisingly cool concept, geared toward developers but with applications in a variety of different areas. In 2023, we listed all of the various tools within PowerToys : from FancyZones t… SolarWinds debuts AI framework in its service desk product IT observability and management software maker SolarWinds today introduced a new AI platform that when embedded into the company’s other solutions will provide generative AI capabilities to speed problem resolution, minimize downtime, and empower IT staff to improve service delivery. SolarWinds AI, developed using SolarWinds’ AI by Design framework , is embedded in SolarWinds AI in Service Desk ,… 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). 10 best practices for managing data in microservices A microservices architecture comprises loosely coupled services and data stores. Use 10 best practices to navigate its complex data management challenges. |
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