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Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive buildout faces significant construction and power challenges along with growing…

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS’s new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles get? Will Donald Trump be impeached? Users can wager…

AI is a great tool for small, well-defined tasks, but maintain a healthy skepticism and avoid falling down a rabbit hole.

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A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing…

Post-apocalyptic scenarios are a longtime staple of science fiction, and director Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, falls firmly into that subgenre. Based on Peter Heller’s critically acclaimed 2012 novel, the story depicts the aftermath of a deadly flu…

I kind of wish it just took pictures. I’ve never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It’s a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks…

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