On February 22nd, 2024 with 1 comments
In a warning issued Wednesday, the FDA said it has not authorized or approved any smartwatch or smart ring to measure blood glucose levels. The use of these...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Princeton Engineering: In the blink of an eye, the unruly, superheated plasma that drives a fusion reaction can lose...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 121 comments
Following a recent ruling from the state supreme court, the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it is pausing all in vitro fertilization...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 23 comments
Google's Gemini AI chatbot is under fire for generating historically inaccurate images, particularly when depicting people from different eras and...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 4 comments
In its fourth quarter earnings report today, Nvidia beat Wall Street's forecast for earnings and sales, causing shares to rise about 10% in extended trading....
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On February 21st, 2024 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PBS: Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 13 comments
The California Public Utilities Commission's Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division (CPED) has suspended Waymo's application to expand its robotaxi...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 30 comments
According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Reddit plans to sell a chunk of its IPO shares to 75,000 of its most loyal users. Reuters reports: It aims...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI's AI assistant, flooding the...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 26 comments
China's tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing's regulations and a sagging economy aren't helping....
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On February 21st, 2024 with 21 comments
A software error on the part of Firefly Aerospace doomed Lockheed Martin's Electronic Steerable Antenna (ESA) demonstrator to a shorter-than-expected orbital...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 54 comments
It's no surprise that the broader tech industry has largely moved away from physical disks to digital subscription-based models. But Microsoft's Gaming CEO...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 24 comments
Intel has landed Microsoft as a customer for its made-to-order chip business, marking a key win for an ambitious turnaround effort under Chief Executive...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 18 comments
A day after the U.S., UK and EU said they had disrupted the ransomware group LockBit, the State Department said the U.S. is offering a reward of up to $15...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 53 comments
Academics have found that the U.S. mortality declines during recessions, with "reductions in air pollution... a quantitatively important mechanism." Abstract...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 34 comments
Apple has updated the iPhone 15's battery lifespan, noting the new handsets can retain 80 percent of their original charging capacity after 1,000 cycles --...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 23 comments
Apple is rolling out an upgrade to its iMessage texting platform to defend against future encryption-breaking technologies. From a report: The new protocol,...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 13 comments
Barely a week after launching the latest iteration of its Gemini models, Google today announced the launch of Gemma, a new family of lightweight open-weight...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 5 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: As the French startup ecosystem continues to boom -- think Mistral, Poolside, and Adaptive -- today the...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 23 comments
Jennifer Ouellette reports via Ars Technica: Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which...
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On February 21st, 2024 with 73 comments
Disney is outsourcing its DVD and Blu-ray disc business to Sony Pictures Entertainment. Variety reports: As part of the deal, Sony will market, sell and...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 486 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos are "children," entitled to full...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 20 comments
In a new report today, Nielsen found that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens....
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On February 20th, 2024 with 28 comments
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it's working on a finger tracking neural wristband that will be ready to ship "in the next few years." UploadVR reports: ...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 17 comments
Internet service provider Cox Communications has been cleared of a $1 billion jury verdict in favor of several major record labels that had accused it of...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 12 comments
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With Valve's release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 31 comments
Starting in July, the Vietnamese government will begin collecting biometric information from its citizens when issuing new identification cards. The Register...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Union will investigate whether ByteDance's TikTok breached online content rules aimed at...
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On February 20th, 2024 with 26 comments
Microsoft is confirming plans to deprecate its Publisher application in 2026. From a report: This writer has fond memories of Microsoft Publisher, which...
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
