The Federal Reserve is likely to discuss making its biggest interest rate increase since 1994 at its meeting this week, as a range of new data suggest that inflation is coming in hotter and proving more stubborn than policymakers had hoped. Central bankers have been promising to be nimble as Read more…
The New York Times tells the story of crop circles, “the mysterious patterns that regularly intrigued people around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, prompting speculation about alien visitors, ancient spiritual forces, weather anomalies, secret weapons tests and other theories.” They call the phenomenon “a reminder that even before Read more…
The state of Utah has the largest saltware lake in the entire western hemisphere — but it’s like the tide went out and never came back, warns the New York Times. “If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store.” Read more…
It’s Warren Buffett versus Google, Facebook and Microsoft, according to a recent article by Bloomberg. Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp. — three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power — are sounding the alarm that a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa isn’t necessarily in Read more…
“Even many Axie regulars say it’s not much fun, but that hasn’t stopped people from dedicating hours to researching strategies, haunting Axie-themed Discord channels and Reddit forums, and paying for specialized software that helps them build stronger teams…” Bloomberg pays a visit to the NFT-based game Axie Infinity with a Read more…
Google engineer Blake Lemoine works for Google’s Responsible AI organization. The Washington Post reports that last fall, as part of his job, he began talking to LaMDA, Google’s chatbot-building system (which uses Google’s most advanced large language models, “ingesting trillions of words from the internet.”) “If I didn’t know exactly Read more…
General Motors couldn’t produce the component it needed for its 2022 SUV, the Chevrolet Tahoe, reports CNET. So the company’s engineers “turned to a novel solution: 3D printing…” GM made a major investment in the tech in 2020, dedicating 15,000 square feet of space to a facility dubbed the Additive Read more…