New military and commercial craft aim to go far higher than jumbo jets and stay there for months, offering more flexible alternative to satellites. This month a drone took off from a missile range in New Mexico and climbed into the stratosphere, joining a race to deliver unmanned aerial vehicles Read more…
The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance. The commission announced that it “adopted its adequacy decision Read more…
Last week, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, was launched to the public and achieved an impressive milestone by surpassing 30 million sign-ups in less than 24 hours. This made Threads the fastest app to reach the 1 million users mark, beating ChatGPT’s record. In a recent update, Meta CEO Mark Read more…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals. It’s based on the company’s PaLM 2 large language model (LLM) that underpins Bard, Google’s ChatGPT rival. Unlike the base model, Med-PaLM-2 has been trained on questions and Read more…
“According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 73% of businesses reported that their workers rarely or never engaged in remote work in 2022 — closing in on pre-pandemic levels,” writes a Seattle Times business columnist. “But this minority of the civilian workforce working remotely casts a large shadow Read more…
We’ve just had the world’s first press conference with AI-enabled, humanoid social robots. Click here to jump straight to Slashdot’s transcript of all the robots’ answers during the press conference, or watch the 40-minute video here. It all happened at the United Nations held an “AI for Good” summit in Read more…
The world’s largest spherical structure “squats on the Las Vegas skyline like an enormous spaceship, black and mysterious,” reports CNN, “until night falls, when it will glow like the Earth from space.” The $2 billion arena — called “The Sphere” — was built just east of the Venetian hotel/casino. It’s Read more…