Other Phones to Consider There are several older phones from Motorola, HMD, and other brands with the headphone jack, but you should probably avoid them if they launched before 2024. If none of the above options strike your fancy, here are some others to consider, all tested by me. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu HMD Fusion for […]
Music and engineering might seem like career paths that are almost diametrically opposed. But for Javier Orman the transition from professional violinist to a machine learning engineer at LinkedIn was a surprisingly natural one. Growing up in Montevideo, Uruguay, Orman excelled at both music and math, and he double-majored in the subjects at college. But
Reddit is in an “arms race” to protect its devoted online communities from a surge in artificial intelligence-generated content, with the authenticity of its vast repository of human interaction increasingly valuable in training new AI-powered search tools. Chief executive Steve Huffman told the Financial Times that Reddit had “20 years of conversation about everything,” leaving
In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to a third of the company’s code. Last October, Google’s CEO put their number at around a quarter. Other tech companies can’t be far off. Meanwhile, these firms create AI that will presumably be used to help programmers further. Researchers have long hoped to
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model
Of the countless technologies invented over the past half century, high-temperature superconductors are among the most promising and yet also the most frustrating. Decades of research has yielded an assortment of materials that superconduct at temperatures as high as -140 °C (133 kelvins) at ambient pressure. And yet commercial applications have been elusive. Now, though,
Microsoft has recently released an open‑source DocumentDB extension for Visual Studio Code alongside DocumentDB Local, a lightweight local emulator. Designed for use with Azure Cosmos DB’s MongoDB API and standard MongoDB instances, this toolset enables developers to manage, query, and edit document databases directly within VS Code, eliminating the need for external tools or cloud
Most of the public information about Tesla’s robotaxi launch comes from a small group of influencers invited by the company to be among those to take the first rides in its new technology. Many have financial stakes in the company; others have built media careers around promoting and cheerleading the electric-vehicle company’s work. Still, some
Artificial intelligence’s (AI) energy and water consumption has become a growing concern in the tech industry, particularly for large-scale machine learning models and data centers. Sustainable AI focuses on making AI technology more environmentally friendly and socially responsible. Zorina Alliata and Hara Gavriliadi gave a talk about sustainable AI at OOP Conference. The energy and
We rely on electricity to keep ourselves comfortable, and more to the point, safe. These are the moments we design the grid for: when need is at its very highest. The key to keeping everything running smoothly during these times might be just a little bit of flexibility. While heat waves happen all over the
