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The Future of Software Development in the Age of AI: Decentralization, Evolution, and Uncertainty
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Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:
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Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:This is your brain on movies
The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers led by Robert Desimone, director of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and colleagues have developed the most comprehensive picture yet of what all these regions do. They achieved this by analyzing data collected as…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:From climate-warming pollutant to useful material
Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes disproportionately to global warming. Its molecular structure of single carbon atoms bound to four hydrogen atoms makes it a potentially useful building block for products that could keep this carbon out of the atmosphere, but it’s hard to get it to react with other…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells
Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates and sleep stages. Now MIT researchers have developed a tiny equivalent for individual brain cells. These soft, battery-free wireless devices, actuated with light, are designed to wrap around different parts of neurons, such as axons…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:The poetry of data
Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English. If anything, they’re more likely to call to mind your statistics class. Flip through the pages of her poetry chapbook Power Point and you’ll see charts, graphs, and citations galore. One poem visually documents maternal mortality rates and women’s unpaid…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source: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…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Warner Bros cancels Wonder Woman video game and closes three studios
Decision to shutter development studios comes as gamers cut back on new purchases and instead opt for proven titlesWarner Bros Discovery is shutting down three of its video game development studios in a move aimed at boosting profitability for its gaming division amid a sluggish recovery in the market, a spokesperson for the company’s games unit said on Tuesday.The studios to be closed are Player First Games, WB Games...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:White House says ‘more than 1 million’ federal workers responded to Doge’s ultimatum email – video
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than 1 million US federal employees responded to an email sent by Elon Musk's Department of government efficiency asking them to list five things they had accomplished in the last week. 'It took me about a minute and a half to think of five things I did last week. I do five things in about 10 minutes, and all federal workers should be working at the same pace...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection
Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk
The tycoon’s links with Donald Trump and Germany’s far-right AfD have slammed the brakes on sales and put the car’s owners in a spinTesla sales almost halve in Europe over Musk’s ties to TrumpWhen Mike Schwede first sat in a Tesla Roadster 15 years ago, he felt like it was a glimpse into the future. By 2016, he was the proud owner of a Tesla, revelling in the thumbs up he would get from other drivers as he whizzed...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:This Refinery Wants to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream. Trump’s Cuts Could Kill It
A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be “dead in the water.”
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Ads Popped Up on Drivers’ Screens. There May Be More on the Way
When Jeep owners complained ads were appearing while driving, the carmaker said it was a glitch. But as automakers consider connected car opportunities, in-vehicle selling might be too tempting to ignore.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:After a Violent Kidnapping, Crypto Elites Hire Bodyguards
A spate of abductions has sent crypto executives and wealthy investors in search of ways to protect themselves.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:‘OpenAI’ Job Scam Targeted International Workers Through Telegram
An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Tesla sales almost halve in Europe as Musk faces criticism over Trump ties
Tech billionaire, a close adviser to the US president, is a vocal supporter of Germany’s far-right AfD partySales of new Tesla cars almost halved in Europe last month, indicating waning demand for the US carmaker’s vehicles as its chief executive Elon Musk intervened repeatedly in the politics on both sides of the Atlantic.The Texas-based carmaker sold 9,945 vehicles in Europe in January, down 45% from last year’s...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permissionMore than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a celebrity backlash builds against the proposals.The...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:I thought AI could not possibly get any better. Then I met Claude 3.7 Sonnet
A side-by-side comparison of O3-mini and Claude 3.7 Sonnet for complex financial reasoning tasksContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:“Bushnell Tour V6 Shift Golf Rangefinder: Precision, Performance, and the Ultimate Edge on the…
When it comes to elevating your golf game, precision is everything—and that’s exactly what the Bushnell Tour V6 Shift Golf Rangefinder…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:More than 200,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship
Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer CanadaMore than 200,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction
Holmes, who is serving nine years, attempted to overturn conviction over multimillion-dollar investor fraud scandalA US court upheld the conviction of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood-testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld the conviction of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani,...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model
Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:Apple announces $500bn in US investments over next four years
Spending ranges from new AI server factory in Texas to film and TV content and may add 20,000 jobsApple announced Monday it would invest $500bn in the US in the next four years that would include a giant factory in Texas for artificial intelligence servers and add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the country.The move comes on the heels of reports that the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, met Donald Trump last...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:John Oliver on Facebook: ‘An absolute sewer of hatred and misinformation’
The Last Week Tonight host looked at content moderation and how Mark Zuckerberg has bent to Trump’s willJohn Oliver took aim at Mark Zuckerberg and the world of content moderation in this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight.The host of the HBO series looked at “just how much the tech industry seemed to swing toward Trump” since the election last year. Continue reading...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:‘It’s very lonely’: what are Australia’s university students missing out on?
Many start their studies hoping to find friends, themselves and intellectual stimulation. More and more are finding they’ve been sold something elseWhen Mai* started studying psychology in mid-2019, she looked forward to making the trip to the university for her tutorials, where she’d have lively conversations with classmates as they grappled with new ideas.But her excitement turned to dread when her face-to-face...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:The Download: workplace surveillance, and fighting EV 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. Your boss is watching Working today—whether in an office, a warehouse, or your car—can mean constant electronic surveillance with little transparency, and potentially with livelihood-ending consequences if your productivity flags. But what matters…
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:One option for electric vehicle fires? Let them burn.
In the fall of 2024, a trucking company in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, temporarily stored a storm-damaged Tesla at its yard. A few weeks later, the car burst into flames that grew out of control within seconds, some shooting out 30 feet. A local fire company tried in vain to squelch the blaze, spraying more than…
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration
Exclusive: Government reluctant to take action that could weaken UK’s attractiveness to AI firms, says Labour sourceUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned. A long-awaited AI bill, which ministers had originally intended to publish before...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor
Manufacturers already have the data. LLM-powered tools could help them make use of it.
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:‘I saw taxis as magical things’: Sega’s pop-punk classic Crazy Taxi at 25
Despite its early detractors at Sega, the legendary driving game was released to great success and millions of salesKenji Kanno, director of Sega’s legendary driving game Crazy Taxi, remembers the exact moment he knew the game had made a seismic impression. “I was going to Las Vegas for promotional work,” he says. “I got into the taxi and the driver drove me very fast, arriving at my destination quickly. At the end, he...
Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source:Your boss is watching
A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…
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