Perovskite solar cells are getting ready to make that giant leap from the lab bench to your rooftop array. The post Record-Setting Perovskite Solar Cells Close The Benchtop-To-Rooftop Gap appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I flew though LAX yesterday and forgot how hostile free airport WiFi used to be in the mid-2000s. LAX uses Boingo Wireless (aka Earthlink dialup's follow-up venture) which first tries to sell you a $15/mo plan (that used to be adopted by other airports). To get | Continue reading
I really did not want to run this morning, but I ran anyway. Coffee and fruit breakfast, Morning Prayer, then a trip to Kidlington for a lunch at Church House, then home to clean up marking. Not a thrill-packed day, but it accomplished what was required. | Continue reading
OpenAI's ChatGPT platform just became a whole lot more interactive, with the launch of GPT-4o. This "flagship model" analyzes audio, visual and/or text input, providing answers via a real-time conversation with a very human-sounding AI agent. Continue Reading Category: Technology … | Continue reading
OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly spe … | Continue reading
Looks like Din and Grogu are going to encounter a very familiar face to sci-fi fans The post Sigourney Weaver in Talks to Join Star Wars Film, The Mandalorian & Grogu appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
There is a speculation that the Perfect Dark reboot could show up at the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9.… Continue reading Perfect Dark looking more and more ripe for a summer announcement The post Perfect Dark looking more and more ripe for a summer announcement appeared first on … | Continue reading
Latte done, now what. 10:27, and already. Time isn’t stopping and neither is this writer. This is enlivening […] | Continue reading
The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn’s breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at … | Continue reading
GameStop (GME) shares soared to around 110% on Monday and were halted several times due to market volatility after the… Continue reading Why GameStop (GME) shares have been halted after recent price surge The post Why GameStop (GME) shares have been halted after recent price surg … | Continue reading
Some agricultural groups back the axing of this occurrence from clean water enforcement policy. New legislation could have major implications for state's clean water enforcement — here's what could happen first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Bridgy Fed's integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse is now in public beta, and you can try it for yourself! The post You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts appeared first on We Distribute. | Continue reading
It's still unclear why WBD wouldn't have done this in the first place. | Continue reading
5-13-24 Home. 09:07… time to build. Latte and a quiet loft. Communicating with Nurse, driving out there a […] | Continue reading
Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it’s causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of … | Continue reading
AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elas … | Continue reading
Elon Musk accused Australia of trying to have "jurisdiction over all of Earth." | Continue reading
Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone—and a new chance to deliver a story that’s also wildly malleable in q … | Continue reading
Who’d have thought? In many instances, corporate malfeasance isn’t necessarily the result of “a few bad actors” doing evil stuff. …the fault often lies with managers who set unrealistic deadlines, production targets, or other objectives that lead decent people to take shortcuts t … | Continue reading
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: "...how can someone actually make something useful out of | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura […] | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't blame us - you're the one watching. Today's News: | Continue reading
Over the past few years I’ve published assessments of the hydrogen strategies of multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, the EU, and the Canadian province of Ontario, among others. News of the German chancellor coming, cap i … | Continue reading
Linux kernel 6.9 has been released after several months of attentive development. Linux founder Linus Torvalds announced the final release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in his usual relaxed, laissez faire style. He notes that while kernel contributors have reported “a few regr … | Continue reading
OpenAI has announced that it will demo updates for its new AI chatbot and GPT-4 today (May 13) but stopped… Continue reading OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine The post OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine appear … | Continue reading
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow thi … | Continue reading
“Nearly half of Republicans believe California ‘not really American.’ ” — LA Times - - - After being jolted awake by yet another earthquake, I take a deep breath and compose myself. Ahhh… the sweet smell of smog. I rise, brew up a pot of fair trade coffee, and inject my arm with … | Continue reading
An unusual spherical observatory sits on the highest point of a 200-foot diameter earth mound in Dublin, Ohio. The Watch House is constructed out of copper, bronze, and stucco, and features holes in the spherical roof in the shape of everyday objects. A reference to the expanding … | Continue reading
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Google and Apple have worked together to create an industry specification – Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers – for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both Android and iOS if such a device is unknowingly being used to track them. This will … | Continue reading
This Pivot Arc Lighter provides the reach of a wand lighter, but comes in a more portable form factor: It can be folded in half when not in use. It's made of die-cast zinc and finished with a brass coating. The juice comes from lithium-ion batteries, recharged via the USB-C port … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, South Carolina resident Brent Norman had an especially unlucky time at the beach. Read more... | Continue reading
You’ve got questions and Wes Ball has answers. His new film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, opened this weekend and io9 recently sat down with the director to talk all about it. We’ve covered all the non-spoiler stuff already but below, we dive into the film’s surprising prol … | Continue reading
Each year, Americans spend $2.6 billion on gift wrap, and of that wrapping paper, millions of pounds end up rotting in landfills. Photo shows savvy hack to save money on gift wrap: 'Cuter than Christmas wrapping paper' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"We make our lives by what we love." | Continue reading
Imagine it’s 2050 and the old countries of Europe are gone. In their place are entities based not on history, language, or ethnicity, but on the type of renewable energy they’re best at producing. A centralized power grid redistributes these variously sourced types of energy thro … | Continue reading
Thanks to weeks of the public speaking up and taking action the FCC has recognized the flaw in their proposed net neutrality rules. The FCC’s final adopted order on net neutrality restores bright line rules against all forms of throttling, once again creating strong federal prote … | Continue reading
Last month, AltStore was finally made available on iOS for everyone living in the European Union. Not only does the first alternative app marketplace on iOS ship with the great Delta videogame emulator, but it also lets you install Clip, a clipboard manager unlike any other on th … | Continue reading
An immense geomagnetic storm caused auroras as far south as Florida for the first time in 21 years after the sun unleashed a wave of solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections at Earth. | Continue reading
Between Friday (May 10) and Sunday (May 12), people across the world were treated to stunning aurora displays as Earth's magnetic field experienced its biggest disturbance since October 2003. The supercharged storm also messed with satellites and caused power grid irregularities. | Continue reading
this week, instead of posting a new post, I’ve edited the instructions for an old one: Étude no. 2: Stepping | Continue reading
There was also mercury and arsenic but none of the toxins likely caused composer's death. | Continue reading
Israelis and Jews were being attacked in Europe. Latinx protesters were explaining that Zionism was a variant of National Socialism (Nazi), decrying a “Palestinian holocaust”, supporting the liberation of Palestine, and chanting “Death to the Jews”… in 1982: (As part of helping m … | Continue reading
It was, as Thanos says, inevitable. I am so shockingly boring that I couldn’t stop working even for one day off. There was little point in tidying up after myself and trying to hide the fact that I can’t do other things. So, when all the family returned from their normal day at w … | Continue reading
The United States and China have sent delegates to a high-level meeting in Switzerland to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and… Continue reading US and Chinese diplomats meet to discuss AI risks The post US and Chinese diplomats meet to discuss AI risks appeared first on Read … | Continue reading
General Motors has released its 2023 Sustainability Report, a sleek and glossy 84-page, feel-good publication that showcases the company’s commitment to work toward its carbon-neutral goals. The report highlights GM’s initiatives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption, forg … | Continue reading
In the previous Part of the series I briefly showed how programming a quantum computer looks like. Check all the articles from the series: Part 1 A gentle overview Part 2 Basic building blocks Part 3 Programming a quantum computer In this Part I’m going to show you a working exam … | Continue reading