December 9, 2024news Review of OpenAI’s Sora video generator: excels at depicting landscapes, people, stylistic content, but it often fails with basic physics like object permanence (Marques Brownlee/Marques Brownlee on YouTube) SORA generates videos. This is the first review.Get up to 40% off on last minute gifts at https://ridge.com/MKBHDThe (real) birding video: https://youtu.be/F… […]
December 9, 2024news OpenAI launches Sora, available as part of ChatGPT Plus, letting users generate up to 50 videos at 480p or fewer videos at 720p each month, in select countries (OpenAI) Read More »
December 9, 2024news Google says it had a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap (John Russell/HPCwire) Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip: […]
December 9, 2024news Cloudflare 2024 report: global internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024, Google remained the top service, global traffic from Starlink grew 3.3x in 2024, and more (David Belson/The Cloudflare Blog) The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and […]
December 9, 2024news Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AGI, Copilot, AI agents, the OpenAI deal, joining Microsoft in March 2024, managing ~10K staff, DeepMind, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) The head of Microsoft’s AI division on competing with Google and how to define superintelligence. Read More »
December 9, 2024news Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can decide its position (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg) Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS […]
December 9, 2024news Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5’s power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe storage and camera connections (Les Pounder/Tom’s Hardware) Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard Read More »
December 6, 2024news A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams (Joel Khalili/Wired) In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin heâd made on a lark. Traders, […]
December 6, 2024news Q&A with Trump’s pick for FCC chairman Brendan Carr about the Salt Typhoon hack, Section 230, tech companies’ “collusion to suppress speech”, Starlink, more (CNBC) From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
December 6, 2024news Q&A with Trump’s pick for FCC chairman Brendan Carr about the Salt Typhoon hack, Section 230, tech companies’ “collusion to suppress speech”, Starlink, more (CNBC) From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
