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Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Engineering was once the most stable and lucrative job in tech. Then AI learned to code.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Lithium-ion batteries have some emerging competition: Sodium-based alternatives are starting to make inroads. Sodium is more abundant on Earth than lithium, and batteries that use the material could be cheaper in the future. Building a new battery chemistry is difficult, mostly because lithium is so entrenched. But, as I’ve noted before, this new technology has…
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Back in 2005, Jobs spent months trying to figure out what to say to Stanford’s graduates. Newly released materials show how he went from hopelessly flailing to delivering a talk for the ages.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time, nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the US stock market within 20 minutes—at the time, the fastest decline in history. Then, almost as suddenly, the market rebounded. After months of investigation, regulators attributed much of the responsibility for this “flash crash” to high-frequency trading algorithms, which…
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:This is my breakup letter to AI, and a critical look at the messy relationship between designers and hype.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Waymo driverless taxis capture troves of video footage in order to operate, but the company reveals very little about how much data is stored—and for how long.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:In the complaint, the Hollywood giants allege Midjourney generates “endless” ripoffs of everything from minions to Darth Vader.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Studios accuse AI firm of ‘piracy’ and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted charactersDisney and Universal sued an artificial intelligence company on Wednesday, alleging copyright infringement. In their lawsuit, the entertainment giants called Midjourney’s popular AI-powered image generator a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” for its alleged reproductions of the studios’ best-known characters.The suit, filed in...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:A new machine learning approach tries to better emulate the human brain, in hopes of creating more capable agentic AI.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Tesla share price rises as former Doge head seems to retreat from feud and president welcomes apparent apologyElon Musk has expressed contrition for some of his tweets about Donald Trump last week, in an apparent effort to retreat from an explosive falling out that has threatened to damage the Tesla boss’s business interests.Musk was by far the biggest donor to Trump’s presidential campaign, but tensions between the...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:A gruesome monster munching through a luckless body was just one of the horrors I shuddered at in a brief snippet of the forthcoming Resident Evil 9. Be afraid – and excitedA surprise announcement at the end of the 6 June Summer Game Fest presentation revealed the ninth entry in the iconic Capcom survival horror series: Resident Evil Requiem, coming early next year.Diehard fans of the series (which has spawned films,...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Tim Ayres says the Albanese government will focus on legislation and regulation but country would benefit from moving quicklyAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia must “lean in hard” to the benefits of artificial intelligence or else risk ending up “on the end of somebody else’s supply chain”, according to the new industry and science minister,...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:By slashing time and cost of restoration, technique could be used on paintings not valuable enough for traditional approach The centuries can leave their mark on oil paintings as wear and tear and natural ageing produce cracks, discoloration and patches where pieces of pigment have flaked off.Repairing the damage can take conservators years, so the effort is reserved for the most valuable works, but a fresh approach...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:The standup shares his favourite Australian comedians – as well as a man transforming into a catGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe internet gets a lot of bad press, most of which is itself published on the internet, which does seem hypocritical. The complaints usually mourn a loss of innocence and freedom. They remember the way things used to be, before the digital world was conquered by a handful of...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Mark Zuckerberg expected to announce Meta will buy 49% stake in Scale AI as race to dominate AI market speeds upMeta is to announce a $15bn (11bn) bid to achieve computerised “superintelligence”, according to multiple reports.The Silicon Valley race to dominate artificial intelligence is speeding up despite the patchy performance of many existing AI systems. Continue reading...
Published on: June 11, 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. Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while…
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Is working in big tech halal? Muslim workers are reckoning with the possibility that their jobs go against their religious obligationsBefore Ibtihal Aboussad was fired by Microsoft for protesting the company’s work with the Israeli military during a celebration of the firm’s 50th anniversary, she sent two emails.The first went to all of her colleagues. She appealed to their universal humanity and urged them to stand...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:This year’s event showcased gaming’s evolving landscape, from blockbuster titles to standout indie projects• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAs protests exploded in Los Angeles last weekend, elsewhere in the city, a coterie of games journalists and developers were gathered together to play new games at the industry’s annual summer showcase. This week’s issue is a dispatch from our...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:At a mansion overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI insiders met to debate one unsettling question: If humanity ends, what comes next?
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work handling boxes of Spanx. Digit can lift boxes up to 16 kilograms between trolleys and conveyor belts, taking over some of the heavier work for its human colleagues. It works in a restricted, defined area, separated from human workers by physical panels or laser…
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:There’s a lot to take in at the yearly live video event: from Paralives to Felt That: Boxing, Dosa Divas to Resident Evil Requiem, here are our favouritesThe ninth mainstream instalment in the survival horror series returns us to the wreckage of Racoon City and promises a blend of cinematic action and psychological horror. FBI agent Grace Ashcroft appears to be the main character, but is anything in this series ever...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Two futures Hans de Zwart, a gym teacher turned digital rights advocate, says that when he saw Amsterdam’s plan to have an algorithm evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud, he nearly…
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Davina Schonle prevented from entering event with eight-month-old and had to cancel meetings for tech startupAn entrepreneur has told how she was left feeling “humiliated” after being turned away from London Tech Week, an annual corporate event, because she was with her baby daughter.Davina Schonle was prevented from entering the event on Monday after travelling for three hours with her eight-month-old and had to...
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Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Your bank won’t do it. Your spreadsheet can’t keep up. So I built my own money dashboard.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
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Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:I will explain why in this blog.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Apple isn’t in the business of chasing hype. When Craig Federighi recently spoke about Siri and Apple’s AI ambitions in the Wall Street…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Introduction: Excited to claim your Grass Airdrop through DappRadar? You're in the right place! As airdrops gain more popularity in the…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Women’s personal information at risk of being harvested by private firms running their own versions, report warnsPublic health bodies should launch alternatives to commercial period tracker apps, experts have said, as a report warns women’s personal data is at risk of being harvested by private companies.Smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles are a “goldmine” for consumer profiling, collecting information on...
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Ofcom looks into whether 4chan and file-sharing services failed to put measures to protect users from illegal contentBritain’s media regulator, Ofcom, on Tuesday launched nine investigations into the internet message board 4chan as well as several file-sharing services over possible breaches of online safety laws.Britain’s Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, sets tougher standards for platforms to tackle criminal...
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Many posts spread the idea that mayhem overtook LA while police confrontations were limited to a small part of the cityPeople in LA: share your reaction to the protests and military mobilizationSince protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles began, false and misleading claims about the ongoing demonstrations have spread on text-based social networks. Outright lies posted directly to social media mixed with...
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Silicon Valley software engineer Tony Tan says his battle against Google and the Trump administration is about upholding the rule of law.
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