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Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's 1990s turnaround, has died, the company told staff. Read more āŗ
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on X that the job would be "stressful" and they'll need to "jump into the deep end pretty much immediately." Read more āŗ
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who donāt. Read more āŗ
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Do you like the 'Fallout' games or show enough to watch a competition show based on 'Fallout Shelter'? Read more āŗ
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Facing a global memory shortage, Asus may consider DRAM production or alternative suppliers to limit price hikes as DDR4 and DDR5 costs continue rising. Read more āŗ
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Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the "festive artwork" shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, "made on MacBook Pro." Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease the season finale of Pluribus. ("Merry Christmas Eve, Carol..." Cook had posted.) But others were convinced that the weird image was AI-generated. Tech blogger John... Read more āŗ
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Yesterday, the ground shook off the coast of Taiwan, slamming the country with the strongest earthquake in 27 years. The seismic wave registered 7.0 in Taiwan's scales, or 6.6 to 6.7 according to the USGS standard. Thankfully, according to reports, TSMC's factories are all intact, saving the world from yet another spike in chip prices. Read more āŗ
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HKC is bringing a 1,080 Hz gaming monitor to CES under its AntGamer brand, showing off a native 1440p 540 Hz panel that can use dual-mode to switch to a blistering 1,080 Hz at 720p. It's a Fast TN panel that is supposed to have DP 2.1 UHBR20 support. Read more āŗ
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Apple isn't ready to pay a several billion-dollar fine to UK App Store users and is filing an appeal over a major antitrust lawsuit. As first reported by The Guardian, Apple has requested to appeal to the UK's Court of Appeal, which would escalate the case beyond the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).Ā The latest appeal attempt follows an October decision from the CAT, where the court found that Apple engaged... Read more āŗ
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An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian: A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter's cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege... Her father subsequently located her phone through the device's parental controls, the agency's statement said. The phone was about 2 miles (3.2km) away from him in a secluded,... Read more āŗ
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After visiting all 50 states in the US, I've been pleasantly surprised by the amazing food at a few, including Connecticut, Wyoming, and Oregon. Read more āŗ
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Sridhar Ramaswamy told Business Insider that while "meetings are like bureaucracies," he depends on them to make decisions. Read more āŗ
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A US Navy special operations veteran told BI that ground robots are helpful, but it's best to have more cheap one than fewer expensive ones. Read more āŗ
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Fully programmable, autonomous robots 'smaller than a grain of salt' have been developed by research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Read more āŗ
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician said he learned of the online misinformation last week after a First Nation north of Halifax confronted him with the summary and cancelled a concert planned for Dec. 19. "You... Read more āŗ
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My grandmother's wedding letter felt strange at first, but months later her warning shaped how I understand marriage, forgiveness, and real partnership. Read more āŗ
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The US president flies on Air Force One. World leaders in other countries also have their own official aircraft. Read more āŗ
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An electronics technician succeeds in the most intricate gaming laptop motherboard repair we have seen completed. Read more āŗ
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Many people asked me for money when my company made a million dollars. I often gave in, but it was never enough ā until I set boundaries. Read more āŗ
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to engineering leaders at the company who were working on a consumer version of Copilot, the AI-powered assistant inside several Microsoft products. A Microsoft manager on the email thread noted that Googleās Gemini chatbot had recently gotten better at connecting with Google Drive for tasks like summarizing the contents of photos stored in folders. Nadella, meanwhile, wasnāt pleased with... Read more āŗ
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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intelās shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... Read more āŗ
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflakeās history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more āŗ
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Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the global stock market, ahead of expected future initial public offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese firmsā IPO filings offer a window into the hardship facing smaller AI firms that donāt have older cash-cow businesses.Shanghai-based MiniMax Group and Beijing-based Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, both recently received regulatory approval to go... Read more āŗ
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Waymo on Tuesday provided further details about its decision on Saturday to temporarily pause its robotaxi service in San Francisco amid a citywide power outage that caused its driverless cars to stall traffic. The company said it made the decision so its vehicles wouldnāt obstruct first ... Read more āŗ
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OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to prioritize sponsored information in ChatGPTās responses when users ask relevant queries, a person familiar with the discussions said. For instance, a Sephora-sponsored... Read more āŗ
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In my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Elon Muskās xAI is a big topic of conversation for the second holiday season in a row thanks to the two gigantic data centers the company has opened here. The multibillion-dollar facilities have sparked a lot of local opposition because theyāre being powered by gas generators that emit air pollution.Ā In response, xAI has ramped up efforts to convince Memphians itās a good neighbor.... Read more āŗ
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āSuspense is an artform,ā said Bruce Holsinger, the author of āCulpability,ā a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. āI think a lot about suspenseāat the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,ā said Holsinger, an author of four previous novels. āI like a sense of momentum, so that the characters are kind... Read more āŗ
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Snowflake is inĀ talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflakeās history, The Information reported Tuesday. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to ... Read more āŗ
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Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidiaās dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. Nvidia is also hiring Groqās founders and other leaders, according to the startup, which didnāt disclose the financial details. It isnāt clear whether the... Read more āŗ
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