Black curtains hang in the windows of a modest apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles, two blocks from the Pacific Ocean, blocking out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon, about thirty, clumsy, with a Zappa mustache, scribbles on reams of graph paper. The scene is spartan: a cot, a few books, a jumbled pile of...
Argentina this week and Uruguay health emergency declared following outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, a rapidly spreading virus that decimated poultry and wild bird flocks, feared for decades as a possible spark of a human pandemic. This means that the 10 countries in South America that recently experienced the virus for the...
unstoppable march artificial intelligence continues. In just a few weeks, AI has seeped into almost everything we interact with online, from conversations to journalism to how we search for information online. It even left Google struggling to reclaim its place on the search throne after Microsoft implemented its own AI tools to miraculously make Bing...
Only In a little over a decade, the crypto world has gone from a single currency to millions of coins and assets, each promising a small stake in the next big deal. The challenge for anyone putting their money into this minefield posing as a goldmine is to distinguish the digital treasure from the many,...
Using the Eero grid system without Ero Plus Subscription limits you to a basic set of options. You can schedule Wi-Fi downtime, set up a guest network, and use Eero as the center of your smart home. That might be enough for most, but here’s what you get if you subscribe. First, it’s worth noting...
Each score is a window into the AI model, Soleiman says, not a perfect representation of how it will always work. But she hopes to make it possible to identify and stop the harm that AI can cause, as alarming cases have already surfaced, including AI Dungeon players using GPT-3 to generate text describing sex...
$72 Casetify Impact Case: Casetify cases are fun because there are a bewildering number of designs to choose from. (Look at this with cat!) I’m not a big fan of the Casetify brand on the camera module, but maybe I’m just not trendy enough. I found the S Pen a bit difficult to access (I...
Taryn Foster thinks Australia’s dying coral reefs can still be saved if it can speed up rescue efforts. For years, biologists like her have been lending a helping hand to reefs struggling with rising temperatures and ocean acidity: they have collected coral fragments and cut them apart to propagate and grow them in nurseries on...
This weekend Presidents Day, and singer Leslie Gore famously said, “Today is George Washington’s birthday and you can save if you want.” (Perhaps we paraphrased.) America loves discount holidays, and the last one has arrived. We’ve researched the sales and highlighted below the best deals for Presidents’ Day. You can save on our favorite wireless...
Who cares seven days doing in the world of generative AI. Last week, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, gleefully told the world that Bing’s new artificial intelligence search engine “make Google dance”, challenging its long-standing dominance in web search. The new Bing uses a little thing called ChatGPT— you may have heard of it —...
