As you crisscross the map, you also invariably stumble on a seemingly endless array of optional sidequests, mysteries, and “fieldwork,” which you keep track of in a dynamically updated journal. While there’s an attempt at a plot justification for each of these optional fetch quests, the ones I tried ended up being much less compelling […]
December 5, 2024 | Features, Gaming, Indiana Jones, MachineGames | No comments
Along came a spider A) Untensed web shown from front view. (B) Tensed web shown from side view. Credit: S.I. Han and T.A. Blackledge, 2024 The 19 spiders built 26 webs over the testing period. For the experiments, Han and Blackledge used a weighted tuning fork with frequencies in the mid-range for whirring wings for […]
December 4, 2024 | Science | No comments
The story that data reveals is complicated—but somehow very human. Until about 13,600 years ago, any wolf living in what is now Alaska would have lived on the usual wolf diet: rabbits, moose, and a whole range of other land animals. But starting around 13,600 years ago, the nitrogen isotopes locked in ancient wolves’ bones […]
December 4, 2024 | Archaeology, dog domestication, Dogs, indigenous North America, isotope analysis, nitrogen isotopes, Science | No comments
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “12 days of OpenAI” period starting December 5, which will unveil new AI features and products for 12 consecutive weekdays. Altman did not specify the exact features or products OpenAI plans to unveil, but a report from The Verge about this “12 days of shipmas” event suggests […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, Christmas, machine learning, openai | No comments
An unnamed FBI official was quoted in the same report as saying that phone users “would benefit from considering using a cellphone that automatically receives timely operating system updates, responsibly managed encryption, and phishing-resistant” multifactor authentication for email accounts, social media, and collaboration tools. The FBI official reportedly said the hackers obtained metadata showing the […]
December 4, 2024 | Chinese hackers, Policy, salt typhoon, Security | No comments
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX, to become the next NASA administrator. “I am delighted to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),” Trump […]
December 4, 2024 | artemis, Donald Trump, human spaceflight, jared isaacman, NASA, Science, Space, space policy, spacex | No comments
In a statement to Ars, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said that claims that Amazon’s “business practices are somehow discriminatory or deceptive” are “categorically false.” Nantel said that Amazon started using third-party services to deliver to these areas to “put the safety of delivery drivers first.” “In the ZIP codes in question, there have been specific […]
December 4, 2024 | Amazon, Amazon Prime, Policy, unfair business practices | No comments
Charging networks can and likely will continue to offer incentives for brand loyalty, whether through apps or rewards points. But new EV owners will not have to do quite so much work to figure out “the good ones” while on road trips. By getting cars linked up to key-based authentication systems, there is also the […]
December 4, 2024 | Cars, electrify america, EV charging, EVgo, Ford, General Motors, GM, plug and charge, Rivian, SAE international, Tesla, universal plug and charge | No comments
By some measures, AI systems are now competitive with traditional computing methods for generating weather forecasts. Because their training penalizes errors, however, the forecasts tend to get “blurry”—as you move further ahead in time, the models make fewer specific predictions since those are more likely to be wrong. As a result, you start to see […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, atmospheric science, Computer science, Earth science, meteorology, Science, weather forecasting | No comments
Windows 11 has other system requirements, though they weren’t the focus of this TPM-centric blog post. Windows 11 systems must have Secure Boot enabled, and they have to use a supported processor—an 8th-gen Intel Core CPU, an AMD Ryzen 2000 CPU, or a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 CPU or newer. In fact, these CPU requirements exclude […]
December 4, 2024 | Tech, windows 10, windows 11, windows 11 24h2 | No comments