REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Worker-led protests erupted at Microsoft headquarters this week as the tech company promises an “urgent” review of the Israeli military’s use of its technology during the ongoing war in Gaza. A second day of protests at the Microsoft campus on Wednesday called for the tech giantContinue Reading
One way to be climate-friendly: Shop sustainably. But figuring out which products count as “sustainable” can be hard, especially when buying online. As ordering with a computer or phone becomes more ubiquitous, the number of online products labeled sustainable is also increasing. Yet there is no single seal of approvalContinue Reading
If you use Google Chrome (Chromium, or a Chromium-based web browser like Vivaldi) and you have installed a free VPN extension from the Chrome Web Store, do me a favour: make sure it’s one you trust. This warning is particularly pertinent for UK readers. VPN usage has surged here followingContinue Reading
Watch the moment a meteorite lit up with night sky over Japan on Tuesday night (August 19) in a video captured on a driver’s dash cam. The driver was heading through Kagoshima in western Japan when the ball of light appeared around 11pm local time. Residents in both Kagoshima andContinue Reading
Spotify has introduced a new feature called Mix that changes how playlists play. Instead of songs ending abruptly or starting suddenly, they now flow smoothly into each other for a better listening experience, which will feel like a DJ playing the song. This feature is currently in beta and availableContinue Reading
Petty thugs. That’s all ICE is. Masked officers too cowardly to show their faces and too aware they’re in the wrong to dare approach judges with warrant requests. Even ICE’s lawyers are doing what they can to keep themselves from being added to the permanent record. Idiots are running theContinue Reading
Thousands of Airbus UK workers who are part of Unite, the UK’s leading union, will strike next month over pay disputes with the European aircraft manufacturer. The strikes will commence in early September and last for 10 days if the issue is not resolved in the coming days.Continue Reading
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines are known as the ‘Big Three‘ in the United States, which is measured by revenue, fleet size, and passenger count. These three airlines dominate much of the US sky but face fierce competition from other carriers like Alaska, Southwest, Frontier, and SpiritContinue Reading
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the first game to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair features next month. Instead of using triangles to model hair, Nvidia will use spheres to improve Harrison Ford’s virtual hair in the Indiana Jones game. RTX Hair is designed to improve lighting and shadows…Continue Reading
A vast landscape of ‘undruggable’ cancer targets remains beyond the reach of conventional therapeutic agents. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), however, are challenging this paradigm. Synthesizing insights from a Cancer Moonshot workshop, we argue that systemically addressing the undruggable target space with AI requires a new conceptual framework. We highlight the failure of currentContinue Reading
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Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players Feature It’s not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those that pay off canContinue Reading
Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly internal documentation, from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to theContinue Reading