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Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Еntrу: Welcome to the ultimate guide on earning free Dragonchain $DRGN through airdrops. If you’ve been looking to boost your crypto…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:For fans of rhythm games and classic rock aesthetics, there’s exciting news—Crkd has officially partnered with Gibson to create a new…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” When MIT Technology…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair saysThe Geo Group, the largest single private contractor to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), said it was building out its surveillance business to be able to monitor hundreds of thousands or millions more immigrants than it already does.The Geo Group, a private prison corporation and parent company of...
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model. The company claims it is its biggest and best model for all-round chat yet. “It’s really a step forward for us,” says Mia Glaese, a research scientist at OpenAI. Since the releases of its so-called reasoning models o1 and o3, OpenAI…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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.
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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,…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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.…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:If you’re interested in receiving free cryptocurrency, you’ve probably heard of airdrops. Airdrops are an exciting way for blockchain…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:If you’ve been following the cryptocurrency world, you’ve likely heard about airdrops - a popular way for blockchain projects to…Continue reading on Medium »
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Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Airdrops are a powerful tool for building and sustaining cryptocurrency communities. This article explores how airdrops like those of…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Wirex Token $WXT Airdrop refers to the distribution of free tokens by the Wirex Token $WXT project, often to attract new users. This event…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 27, 2025 | Source:Navigating the realm of cryptocurrency is akin to exploring a labyrinthine network of pathways.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source:Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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:...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
Published on: February 26, 2025 | Source: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...
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