Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ChatGPT has become an indispensable creative tool for many of us. Cutting-edge as it is, however, ChatGPT still suffers from occasional slowdowns that can leave you waiting for seconds or even upwards of a minute between responses. Switching to the paid ChatGPT-4 model won’t necessarily speed things up either.
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader tippen shared this report from the Register: AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed. In a newly released paper, four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) computer scientists — Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta, and
Read MoreTwo months ago the team behind NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter released a video reflecting on its historic explorations of Mars, flying 10.5 miles (17.0 kilometers) in 72 different flights over three years. It was the team’s way of saying goodbye, according to NASA’s video. And this week, LiveScience reports, Ingenuity answered back: On April 16, Ingenuity
Read MoreDo humanoid robots dream of electric retirement? Who knows, but maybe we can ask Boston Dynamics’ Atlas HD, which was officially retired this week. The humanoid robot, notable for its warehouse Parkour and sweet dance moves, never went into production, at least not as far as we know. Atlas always seemed like it was intended
Read More(a) The 12 permanent magnet holder subsegments. (b) The 16 planar, circular toroidal field coils are positioned inside the water-jet cut support structure. (c) The glass vacuum vessel is joined by 3D-printed low-thickness couplers. Glass ports were hot welded to the torus. (Credit: T.M. Qian et al., 2023) When you think of a fusion reactor
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ChatGPT has become an indispensable creative tool for many of us. Cutting-edge as it is, however, ChatGPT still suffers from occasional slowdowns that can leave you waiting for seconds or even upwards of a minute between responses. Switching to the paid ChatGPT-4 model won’t necessarily speed things up either.
Read MoreHere at Hackaday we’re a varied bunch of writers, some of whom have careers away from this organ, and others whose work also appears on the pages of other publications in different fields. One such is our colleague [Lewin Day], and he’s written a cracking piece for The Autopian about the effort to keep an
Read MoreRemember when Apple filed a lawsuit against chip startup Rivos (saying that in one year Rivos hired more than 40 former Apple employees to work on competing system-on-a-chip technology)? Apple settled that suit in February. And now Tuesday Rivos announced that it raised $250 million, according to Reuters, “in a funding round that will enable
Read MoreMacworld When the iPhone 16 line launches this September, we expect it to usher in a new A-series processor. As has been the case in the last few years, the top-end “Pro” models will get a new processor while the regular iPhone 16 non-Pro models will likely get a version of the A17 Pro chip
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S.-China rivalry “has a new flashpoint in the battle for technology supremacy: electric cars.” “So far, the U.S. is losing.” Last year, China became the world’s foremost auto exporter, according to the China Passenger Car Assn., surpassing Japan with more than 5 million sales overseas. New energy vehicles
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A couple of weeks ago, I ran out of screen on the one external monitor my work-issued MacBook Air can run. So I switched to my five-year-old Windows desktop and plugged in another monitor. Love it. Productivity through the roof. But it means that I’m finally spending significant
Read MoreThe co-founder of Silicon Valley-based software testing startup HeadSpin was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and a $1 million fine, reports SFGate — for defrauding investors. Lachwani pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and a count of securities fraud in April 2023, after federal prosecutors accused him of, for years, lying
Read MoreAs promised earlier, Microsoft released the first preview of the Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 a few days ago. This has been made available for commercial users using Windows or MacOS. Since Microsoft officially released the preview version of Office 2024 for Windows and MacOS, you can download & use it right now. We will share
Read More[MakerSpace] wanted to 3D print an RFID card holder. On one side is a slot for a card and on the other side has recesses for the RFID antenna. They used these to control access to machines and were milling them out using a CNC machine. Since there were no flat surfaces, he had to
Read MoreWell, nothing is private in this digital world. ISPs and authorities track your every internet activity, including the sites you visit, links you click, interests, etc. To hide online activity, one needs to use a VPN app. VPN is a valuable tool for encrypting incoming and outgoing traffic for those who don’t know how to
Read MoreThis week saw the release of the LXQt 2.0 desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. And besides bringing Qt 6 support (and a new default application menu), it also brings support for the Wayland display protocol to more components: The LXQt development is confident that the next major release, LXQt 2.1, will be fully Wayland compatible. The
Read MoreThey look like a pair of Bluetooth earpieces from the early 2000s, but Olive Union’s over-the-counter hearing aids are a decent option for anyone with mild hearing loss.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Gemini assistant could get a feature that will allow it to integrate with third-party music streaming services. Users will be able to pick their preferred music service to play music. The feature was found within Gemini Settings. Gemini assistant has been a great substitute for Google Assistant on many
Read MoreCNBC visited a small group of bitcoin miners who “set up shop at the site of an extinct volcano” near Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park. Their mine “consists of a single 500-kilowatt mobile container that, from the outside, looks like a small residential trailer.” But what’s more interesting is it’s operated by a startup called
Read MoreThis is the Insta360 X4, an impressive action camera that stands out in the market. The latest action camera in the brand’s X series has seen some exciting upgrades since the X3, the most significant being its ability to shoot up to 8K. However, there’s much more to this action camera than just this feature.
Read MoreThe EU’s European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that nearly two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits wrote the Board an open letter “urging it not to endorse a strategy used by Meta that they say is intended to bypass the EU’s privacy protections for commercial gain.”
Read MoreNBA superstar LeBron James was spotted at Saturday’s playoff game in Denver sporting what appears to be a unreleased Pill speaker from Apple’s Beats subsidiary. James was seen carrying a new version of the Pill speaker which features a lanyard. At present, the company doesn’t have a single speaker featured on its website, having discontinued
Read MoreOpinion post by Dhruv Bhutani The idea of voice-based social networks isn’t new. Clubhouse boomed during the Covid era and floundered soon after. However, Clubhouse’s moment of fame led to several copycats and even spurred the addition of voice to existing platforms like Twitter. On the face of it, Airchat (Play Store) is yet another
Read MoreApple appears to be planning to skip an M3 revision to the Mac mini in favor of a more significant update featuring the M4 chip. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has previously reported that Apple would update the Mac mini line with M4 and M4 Pro chips towards the end of 2024 or early 2025. In a
Read MoreTravel back in time to 2021 and the source codes for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 were suddenly dumped online. You may not remember a big future at the time because the caveat was that fortunately, CD Projekt Red had password-protected the files and hackers did not have the passwords. Fast forward three years
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