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#General #Development #Mobile Development #Cloud & DevOps #Cybersecurity & Privacy #AI & Data Science #Hardware & Gadgets #Design & UXOpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
Internally called Orion, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, and it’s first available through the company’s $200 monthly ChatGPT subscription.
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How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass
They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Southern Italy, in the year 79 CE, are thought to be pieces of his brain—turned to glass. The discovery, reported in 2020,…
Monster Hunter Wilds review – prepare for the most epic fight of your life
PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X; CapcomSupercharged by modern gaming technology, this venerable action series has never been more funAfter riding through a desert storm on a feathered steed, dust and rain whipping around you, you arrive at a mountain pass where purple crystals frost the walls. The weather still rages outside, but it’s calm within the cavern that lies at the end of the path. You can tell, from the...
The Download: Amazon’s quantum chip, and preventing battery fires
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut The news: Amazon Web Services has announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip. While the chip has only rudimentary computing capability, the company says it…
YouTube star MrBeast planning investment round that could value company at $5bn
Funds would be used to create holding company for 26-year-old’s growing empire of video and food businessesThe world’s biggest YouTube star, MrBeast, is planning to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a move that would reportedly value his company at roughly $5bn (3.9bn).The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is said to have spoken with several wealthy individuals and financial firms about taking part...
The 15 best games to play on the Nintendo Switch in 2025
From the cutest postapocalyptic world to multiplayer mayhem and a modern family classic, here are the Switch’s must-play gamesWhen we think of Nintendo we picture serene and cosy cartoon adventures filled with cute creatures and lovable Italian stereotypes. But while there is plenty of Mario on the Switch, the console offers a diverse range of delights for newcomers and longtime gaming veterans. Here are the 15...
Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut
Amazon Web Services today announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip. While the chip has only rudimentary computing capability, the company says it is a proof-of-principle demonstration—a step on the path to creating a larger machine that can deliver on the industry’s promised killer applications, such as fast and accurate simulations of new battery materials.…
The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Flames erupted last Tuesday amid the burned wreckage of the battery storage facility at Moss Landing Power Plant. It happened after a major fire there burned for days and then went quiet…
‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his village
In 1935, Derek Harris was born – and so was the K6 red phone box. Now, Harris is spending his 90th year ensuring this beloved local facility isn’t lostThe battleground at the heart of a struggle between an 89-year-old man and a multi-billion pound multinational is a small junction in a Norfolk village, where a red phone box stands. And at the red phone box, sheltering from the wind, is Derek Harris. Last month, he...
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Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations in first earnings after debut of DeepSeek AI
Investors will be eyeing firm’s financials for signs of slowing demand after revelation high-end chips not necessaryNvidia surpassed investor expectations for the fourth quarter of 2024 with a 78% jump in revenue year over year.The company reported $39.3bn in revenue, beating analyst projections of $38.25bn. It also reported $0.89 in earnings a share on Wednesday, beating expectations of $0.84. Continue reading...
Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations in first earnings after DeepSeek’s AI debut
Investors were eyeing the firm for signs of slowing demand after revelation high-end chips not necessary, but found fewNvidia surpassed investor expectations for the fourth quarter of 2024 with a 78% jump in revenue year over year.The company reported $39.3bn in revenue, beating analyst projections of $38.25bn. It also reported $0.89 in earnings a share on Wednesday, beating expectations of $0.84. Continue reading...
Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal
Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president’s first full cabinet meetingOn Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist Mary Beard spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. “An autocrat is somebody who kills you when he’s being his most generous,” she remarked. “You go to dinner, you think, wow, this is wonderful! But the generosity of the autocrat is...
Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.
Prioritise artists over tech in AI copyright debate, MPs say
Cross-party committees urge ministers to drop plans to force creators to opt out of works being used to train AITwo cross-party committees of MPs have urged the government to prioritise ensuring that creators are fairly remunerated for their creative work over making it easy to train artificial intelligence models.The MPs argued there needed to be more transparency around the vast amounts of data used to train...
Netflix’s games were once its best-kept secret – where did it all go wrong?
Its investment in indie darlings and big-name talent suggested the streamer wanted big stakes in the gaming industry, but layoffs, lousy ties-in and leadership changes suggest that is changingWhen Netflix first started adding video games to its huge catalogue of streaming TV shows and films, it did so quietly. In 2021, after releasing an impressive experiment with the idea of interactive film in Black Mirror:...
The Download: Introducing the Relationships issue
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Relationships issue Relationships are the stories of people and systems working together. Sometimes by choice. Sometimes for practicality. Sometimes by force. Too often, for purely transactional reasons. That’s why we’re exploring…
#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside
Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on BlueskyAfter seeing Elon Musk’s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app...
Welcome to robot city
Tourists to Odense, Denmark, come for the city’s rich history and culture: It’s where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was murdered during the 11th century, and the renowned fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen was born there some 700 years later. But today, Odense (with a population just over 210,000) is also home to…
Technology shapes relationships. Relationships shape technology.
Greetings from a cold winter day. As I write this letter, we are in the early stages of President Donald Trump’s second term. The inauguration was exactly one week ago, and already an image from that day has become an indelible symbol of presidential power: a photo of the tech industry’s great data barons seated…
Job titles of the future: Pharmaceutical-grade mushroom grower
Studies have indicated that psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and MDMA, have swift-acting and enduring antidepressant effects. Though the US Food and Drug Administration denied the first application for medical treatments involving psychedelics (an MDMA-based therapy) last August, these drugs appear to be on the road to mainstream medicine. Research into psilocybin led by the…
The AI Hype Index: Falling in love with chatbots, understanding babies, and the Pentagon’s “kill list”
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The past few months have demonstrated how AI can bring us together. Meta released a model that can translate speech from more than…
Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
Tech company blames ‘phonetic overlap’ for problem where US president’s name appearsApple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”.The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and was later...
UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 monthsBritish universities have been warned to “stress-test” all assessments after new research revealed “almost all” undergraduates are using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in their studies.A survey of 1,000 students – both domestic and international – found there had been an “explosive increase” in the...
The Future of Software Development in the Age of AI: Decentralization, Evolution, and Uncertainty
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Studying the uninvited guests
Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spills, waste sites, and contaminated watersheds. But until his faculty mentor asked him for help with a project he was working on with doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2009, Eric Alm had not thought much about their role in a very…
Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue
Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells with laser light, but it’s been constrained by the way light scatters when it shines into tissue, limiting the resolution and depth of penetration. MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than doubles the usual depth limit while boosting imaging speeds, yielding…
An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment. But MIT researchers have found a way to address the problem at its source: replacing them with polymers that break down into harmless sugars and amino acids. Particles of this polymer could also be used…
A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelligence
For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the world, its economic effects remain uncertain. But Institute Professor and 2024 Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu has some insights. Despite some predictions that AI will double US GDP growth, Acemoglu expects it to increase GDP by 1.1% to 1.6% over the next 10 years, with a roughly…
The man who reinvented the hammer
A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These are just a few of the seemingly mundane things that have sparked the relentlessly imaginative mind of Kurt Schroder ’90, leading to some of his groundbreaking inventions. “I just can’t stop doing it,” he says, with a chuckle and a tiny trace…