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U.S. ramps up chip production efforts with taxpayers footing part of the bill – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. is ramping up its chip production while trying to block China from dominating the market. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On #U.S #ramps #chip #production #efforts #taxpayers #footing #part #bill
We’ve started to see this play out in California. Renewables are able to supply nearly all the grid’s energy demand during the day on sunny days. The problem is just how different the picture is at noon and just eight hours later, once the sun has gone down. In the middle of the day, there’s so much solar power available that gigawatts are basically getting thrown away. Electricity prices can actually go negative. Then, later on, renewables quickly fall off, and other sources like natural gas need to ramp up to meet demand. But energy storage is starting to catch…
If you and your family members routinely make calls abroad and don’t find apps like WhatsApp and Viber reliable for this purpose, T-Mobile has a great new offer for you.T-Mobile charges each line $15 per month for unlimited international calling but if more than one person in your family frequently makes calls to people located outside of the US and North America, the carrier has a new add-on for you, per The Mobile Report.The company is now letting all the lines on your account enjoy unlimited international calling for $20 per month. That’s $5 more than the per-line Stateside International…
A group of major newspaper publishers, including the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, are accusing two of the biggest artificial intelligence companies of stealing their content to improve their products.That accusation comes in a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New York. The lawsuit targets two of the biggest generative AI platforms in the world, Open AI, the creators of ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s Copilot AI program. What is AI’s threat to local news? The plaintiffs argue that the development of the internet and the theft of their content is the biggest threat to local news.The suit…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives. During a sit-down chat with MIT Technology Review in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he described how he sees the killer app for AI as a “super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension.” In the new paradigm, as Altman sees it, AI will be capable of helping us outside the chat interface and taking real-world tasks off our plates. Read more about Altman’s thoughts on the future of…
Rumors about the OnePlus 13 have started intensifying, with the latest ones hinting at a design change and upgraded specs.Though the OnePlus 12 was only released in December, we have been seeing leaks about its successor since March. Almost all of them have hinted at an upgraded camera array design and Weibo leaker fixed focus digital has posted a render of the phone to show us what it will look like.The image only shows the back of the phone and hints at a rectangular, OnePlus 10 Pro-style camera array for the OnePlus 13, instead of the circular island seen on…
UnitedHealth Group CEO reports cyberattack could impact a third of Americans – CBS News Watch CBS News UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty disclosed that a cyberattack on one of its subsidiaries earlier this year might affect up to a third of all Americans. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On #UnitedHealth #Group #CEO #reports #cyberattack #impact #Americans
Last week, Moderna and Merck launched a large clinical trial in the UK of a promising new cancer therapy: a personalized vaccine that targets a specific set of mutations found in each individual’s tumor. This study is enrolling patients with melanoma. But the companies have also launched a phase III trial for lung cancer. And earlier this month BioNTech and Genentech announced that a personalized vaccine they developed in collaboration shows promise in pancreatic cancer, which has a notoriously poor survival rate. Drug developers have been working for decades on vaccines to help the body’s immune system fight cancer, without…
The Pixel 8 Pro is the best Pixel phone you can buy right now, and guess what? It’s now sweetly discounted at Best Buy. Currently, the retailer is selling the 128GB version of this handsome fella for $200 off its price, allowing you to get an unlocked unit for $799 instead of $999. We agree that this offer isn’t as good as the one Amazon had around the end of March, which discounted the phone by $250, bringing it to its lowest price at the retailer. Nevertheless, a $200 markdown is still substantial, especially given that you are getting Google’s…
When Los Angeles Police Department officers in riot gear arrived at the University of California, Los Angeles early Thursday, the anonymous messaging app Sidechat filled with posts trying to piece together what was happening: “Is everyone ok? I just heard like 8 cop cars go by,” one post read. Others shared rumors about police action and outside agitators and pointed students to live streams to watch the events unfold.Sidechat has taken on a new role on college campuses as pro-Palestinian demonstrations and law enforcement’s response to them have escalated in recent weeks. Posts on the app are anonymous, allowing students…
But bovines may not be far behind. There’s a large assisted-reproduction industry in cattle, with more than a million IVF attempts a year, half of them in North America. Many other beef and dairy cattle are artificially inseminated with semen from top-rated bulls. “Cattle is harder,” says Jiang. “But we have all the technology.” Inspecting a “synthetic” embryo that gestated in a cow for a week at the University of Florida, Gainesville.ANTONIO REGALADO The thing that came out of cow #307 turned out to be damaged, just a fragment. But later that day, in Jiang’s main laboratory, students were speed-walking…
Back in November, the Sunbird messaging app, which powered the Nothing Chats messaging app, shut down due to security concerns. The Sunbird app allowed Android users to use iMessage for messaging even down to having blue bubbles, high-quality images, read receipts, typing indicators, and more. While Sunbird promised users that they would have end-to-end encryption for user messages and files, users’ Apple login info was not encrypted obviously creating a huge security concern.With 630,000 files vulnerable to this exploit, Sunbird decided to halt all of its services including its Play Store app. But Sunbird is re-launching its iMessage for Android…
You’re waiting for Apple to release the first OLED iPad Pro tablets and you’re confused. Can’t say that I blame you. First, we were told to expect the 11-inch and 12.9-inch OLED panels adorning the iPad Pro (2024) to be available on March 26th, along with the 2024 10.9-inch iPad Air and a new 12.9-inch iPad Air. Apple created the latter to counter the sticker shock expected to be felt by customers pricing the 12.9-inch iPad Pro due to the more expensive OLED display that will be used on the tablet. The 12.9-inch iPad Air will have a less costly…
One of the most important specs that phone buyers look at is the battery capacity of the models they are looking to buy. This makes sense and you can say that arguably Apple started to become more battery-conscious with the iPhone 11 series. The latest rumor involving the battery sizes of the upcoming iPhone 16 series shows improvements in the capacity of the cell used on each model except for one, the iPhone 16 Plus.The Apple 14 Plus was equipped with the largest battery ever used on an iPhone at the timeApple first added the “Plus” model to the iPhone…
The first touchscreen smartphone from a major manufacturer to include a fingerprint scanner was the Motorola Atrix which was released in 2011. We’d love to say that this new tool was a big hit right away and led others to add such a feature on their phones. Alas, we can’t. The scanner on the Atrix had several problems. In 2012, in a transaction that was a typical Apple transaction, the company bought biometric firm AuthenTec for $356 million and Touch ID debuted the following year on the iPhone 5s.Since then, fingerprint scanners or facial recognition has been a standard feature…
If you are in the market for a new Garmin smartwatch that doesn’t break the bank, feel free to snatch the Garmin Forerunner 245 on Amazon through this sweet offer.At the moment, the retailer is selling this running smartwatch for $100 off its price, letting you snag one at a sweet 33% discount. The Garmin Forerunner 245 may not be new to the market, being released back in 2019, but its current low price makes it perfect for a running enthusiast in the market for a new smartwatch on a budget. Furthermore, the wearable is full of features, which make…