According to rumors hitting the windmill, OpenAI is reportedly set to debut a new search engine to take on Google and Microsoft’s Bing. The ChatGPT maker is slated to make the new product this week during a developer conference. Google continues to dominate the search market share despite Microsoft’s big AI push on Bing. Interestingly, […]
In a major shake-up of its chip roadmap, Apple has announced a new M4 processor for today’s iPad Pro refresh, barely six months after releasing the first MacBook Pros with the M3 and not even two months after updating the MacBook Air with the M3. Apple says the M4 includes “up to” four high-performance CPU […]
IN BRIEF: For most of us, having more than a couple dozen browser tabs open at once feels like a cluttered nightmare. But for one software engineer, managing nearly 7,500 active Firefox tabs is just another day at the office. Hazel, who prefers not to share her last name, is what you’d call a hardcore Firefox […]
Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-super-rich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available mineral elements. The energy capacity and charge-recharge cycling (cyclability) of lithium-iron-oxide, a cost-effective cathode material for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, is improved by adding small amounts of abundant elements. The development, achieved by […]
The world’s largest EV battery makers CATL and BYD are pressing ahead with their sodium-ion cell plans, despite that the drastic lithium price drop has made sodium batteries less attractive from a financial standpoint. BYD already announced that it is building a sodium battery plant, and now CATL confirmed that it will press ahead with the second generation […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has mixed feelings about artificial intelligence (AI). “It has enormous potential for good and enormous potential for harm,” Buffett said at Berkshire’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday. He shared a personal experience with AI that had him shook. “Fairly recently, I saw an image in front […]
The Rabbit R1 is a pocketable AI assistant that’s arrived alongside questionable reviews at best. Criticized for its slow responses, poor battery life, and an existence that’s made defunct by modern smartphone capabilities, many are wondering what the point behind it, and by extension the company, actually is. Things are now going from bad to […]
Roof tiles are becoming a thing of the past: Today, more and more Swiss roofs boast large black and blue rectangles that convert sunlight into electricity. The blueish color comes from silicon crystals, as the majority of solar cells available today are based on this semiconductor material. But silicon is not the only way to […]
Much of Alaska is empty—of humans, at least. Vast tundra and forest separate cities and villages, dividing the state into more than 150 isolated power grids. The largest of these grids, known as the Railbelt, carries 70% of the state’s electrical energy to about three-quarters of its population. Today, that grid runs mostly on natural […]
Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. “Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than passwords,” Heather Adkins, vice president […]
Climate scientists, for years, have urged governments around the world to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Wind and solar plants have increased in popularity in recent years but they both have a fundamental problem. Lapses in sunlight and wind caused by weather events can make it difficult to reliably capture and store […]
It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to — what do you know — fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, first reported by Business Insider, show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead. That spurred an urgency that led to the Windows […]
