Although there won’t be a major Apple event today, the company has a lot of stuff to announce this morning. Along with the new Mac Mini, two new MacBook Pros with upgraded M2 CPUs have just been released. The M2 Pro and M2 Max CPUs are now available for the …
Read More »An AI writing assistance with source citations is unveiled by AI21 Labs
The artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT, which can create spreadsheet formulas, emails, poems, and more, has recently received a lot of unfavorable press. Users were briefly prohibited from publishing ChatGPT-generated content by Stack Overflow, which claimed that the AI made it too simple for users to flood the site with bogus …
Read More »A glimpse of the future as seen by Sam Altman
Sam Altman, the former CEO of Y Combinator and, as of 2019, the co-founder and co-CEO of OpenAI, the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity,” spent an hour with this editor late last week in …
Read More »Gravity batteries could be made from abandoned mines
It takes creative transformations to produce and store electricity because energy cannot be created or destroyed. Some ideas seem more absurd than others, such as the plan to revive defunct mine holes and transform them into massive batteries. Sand is the only thing they require (or an equivalent heavy enough …
Read More »The largest aircraft in the world does a record-breaking flight over the Mojave Desert
After breaking yet another world record by flying nonstop for six hours, the largest plane in the world has gone to the skies to demonstrate that having a 117-meter (385-foot) wingspan does not prevent it from traveling the distance. The current largest plane in the world, Stratolaunch’s Roc, flew for …
Read More »After an 18-month security investigation, Didi receives approval from China to reopen
On Monday, Didi, a major ride-hailing company, returned to the market after having its app suspended in China for 18 months. The action was taken at a time when China was beginning to loosen up on its three-year-old broad regulatory crackdown on the internet industry. Chinese authorities demanded that Didi …
Read More »News aggregator SmartNews fires 40% of its employees in the US and China, and plans additional layoffs in Japan
According to individuals acquainted with the company’s plans, SmartNews, a news aggregation website and app with headquarters in Tokyo, today announced a 40% decrease of its U.S. and China personnel, or roughly 120 people. The announcement was made on Thursday during an All-Hands meeting that the SmartNews team was present …
Read More »Parisian scooters are at a turning point
What will become of the 15,000 vibrant electric scooters that are currently littering Paris’ streets? Their future may take a dramatic turn on March 23 as the French capital decides whether or not to renew licenses for the three scooter businesses that are currently doing business there. The three businesses …
Read More »Popular stock trading software Trade Republic increases the interest rate on cash by 2%
Trade Republic, a German business, is more known for its mobile app that makes it easier to purchase and sell stocks, but it also offers interest on unspent funds. Users will earn 2% a year in interest on whatever cash they have in their Trade Republic accounts. I’m reminded of …
Read More »Hackers allege the Los Angeles Housing Authority was attacked with ransomware
Shortly after the LockBit ransomware group took ownership of a hack on the organization, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, or HACLA, said it is looking into a cybersecurity incident. On December 31, LockBit’s dark web leak site added HACLA, which offers more than 19,000 low-income families …
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