December 10, 2024news The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the largest CHIPS Act subsidies (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the […]
December 10, 2024news TikTok launches TikTok Shop in Spain, letting creators sell products from beauty to home appliances, from €3 to €60, the first step of its European rollout (Bloomberg) TikTok launches TikTok Shop in Spain, letting creators sell products from beauty to home appliances, from €3 to €60, the first step […]
December 9, 2024news OpenAI says the depiction of minors is limited with Sora, and only a “subset” of users can create videos of a real person using uploaded footage of that person (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) OpenAI says it’ll only let a ‘subset’ of Sora users generate videos of real people, owing to the risks associated with the […]
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 »
