As podcaster Ryan Zhao put it on Bluesky, “The design process has gone wrong when what you need to prototype is ‘what if there was a space.’” Gotta go fast When Google revealed the first version of Genie earlier this year, it also published a detailed research paper outlining the specific steps taken behind the […]
December 6, 2024 | AI, AI game design, AI gaming, Gaming, Google Genie | No comments
“Every one of our conclusions, every one of our recommendations, was unanimously agreed to by our team,” Hill said. “We went through a lot of effort, arguing sentence by sentence, to make sure the entire team agreed. To get there we definitely had some robust and energetic discussions.” Hill did acknowledge that, at the outset […]
December 6, 2024 | heat shield, orion, Science, Space | No comments
So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When the Agency announced it was planning for this program, it noted that there were two candidate vaccines in trials. Until those are validated, it plans to use the standard playbook for handling emerging infections: contact tracing and isolation. And it […]
December 6, 2024 | Biology, bird flu, Flu virus, H5N1, Health, Infectious disease, medicine, Science | No comments
“What the Act targets is the PRC’s ability to manipulate that content covertly,” the ruling said. “Understood in that way, the Government’s justification is wholly consonant with the First Amendment.” TikTok likely to appeal to Supreme Court TikTok is unsurprisingly frustrated by the ruling. In a statement provided to Ars, TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes confirmed […]
December 6, 2024 | bytedance, china, national security, Policy, tiktok, TikTok ban | No comments
The warning extends beyond voice scams. The FBI announcement details how criminals also use AI models to generate convincing profile photos, identification documents, and chatbots embedded in fraudulent websites. These tools automate the creation of deceptive content while reducing previously obvious signs of humans behind the scams, like poor grammar or obviously fake photos. Much […]
December 6, 2024 | AI, AI crime, AI ethics, AI fraud, AI password, Asara Near, audio synthesis, Biz & IT, deepfakes, fbi, image synthesis, machine learning, safe word, secret word, Twitter, voice cloning, voice synthesis | No comments
The longest-lived Studio desktop was the Surface Studio 2, which was released in 2018 and wasn’t replaced until a revised Surface Studio 2+ was announced in late 2022. It used an even higher-quality display panel, but it still used previous-generation internal components. This might not have been so egregious if Microsoft had updated it more […]
December 6, 2024 | microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Surface, surface studio, Tech | No comments
Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were. Cryptovaranoides microlanius was a tiny lizard that skittered around what is now southern England during the late Triassic, around 205 million years ago. It […]
December 6, 2024 | Biology, fossils, lizards, paleontology, reptiles, Science | No comments
In fact, I think the cheaper, less powerful i5 eDrive40 (or the all-wheel drive xDrive40) is the better i5, but BMW didn’t have one of those available in the press fleet, so a review of that version will have to wait for one to show up. As I often write, the most powerful version of […]
December 6, 2024 | BMW i5, car review, Cars | No comments
For Booking.com, it’s essential that users can book travel for other users by adding their email addresses to a booking because that’s how people frequently book trips together. And if it happens that the email address added to a booking is also linked to an existing Booking.com user, the trip is automatically added to that […]
December 6, 2024 | Booking.com, online privacy, personally identifying information, Policy, privacy | No comments
In contrast, a sodium-ion battery relies on an element—sodium—that you can find in table salt and ocean water. Among the other benefits, sodium-ion batteries perform better than lithium-ion batteries in extreme cold. CATL has said its new battery works in temperatures as low as -40° Fahrenheit. Also, a sodium-ion battery has much lower risk of […]
December 6, 2024 | Cars, EVs, sodium batteries, sodium-ion batteries, syndication | No comments