Published on: 2025-04-20 01:28:53
tldr: There's a lot of bullshit going on right now about Lithium propulsion boats and planes, don't trust the energy return on investment or viability of its profitability...it's fundamentally a net negative energy return on investment. Elon lies through his teeth and boldly in a room full of people. Physicists Get Too Much Street Cred and Access to Venture Capital I think the physicist mindset has infected a large swath of venture capital with delusions about what's possible with lithi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 18:46:45
The WSJ says some Parliament members are concerned the cases have become political. The European Commission (EC) reportedly delayed regulatory penalty announcements against Apple and Meta this week as it accelerates its push for a trade deal with the US. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal said the move led to concern from European Parliament lawmakers that political factors are influencing the body's regulatory decisions. The EU is said to have initially planned to announce cease-and-desist or
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 18:00:12
A place in the UEFA Europa League semifinals is up for grabs at Old Trafford today as Manchester United takes on Lyon in this finely balanced last-eight clash. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The two teams played out an absorbing game at Parc OL last Thursday, in a match which saw both sides lead at different points before a mistake by Manc
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On Wednesday, news broke that researchers had found the most compelling evidence yet of a "biosignature"—a chemical present at levels that are only consistent with life—on a distant exoplanet. It didn't take much time for some less-than-reliable news sources to go from there to talk of a planet that "could be 'teeming with life'" and the obvious follow-up, "Scientists reveal what aliens could REALLY look like on exoplanet K2-18b." Even in the best of circumstances, however, talk of a biosignatu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 02:26:00
In a nutshell: The European Commission is supplying staffers bound for the US on official business with burner phones and basic laptops. The security measure, which is common practice for staff members visiting regions like Russia or China where electronic surveillance is anticipated, is meant to thwart espionage attempts. An EU official told the Financial Times, "The transatlantic alliance is over." According to The Register, officials from the European Union are set to visit Washington DC ne
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lyft said it is acquiring mobility platform FreeNow, giving the ridehailing company its first major presence in Europe after years of operating exclusively in the US and Canada. FreeNow aggregates taxis alongside private vehicles, including luxury rides. The acquisition of FreeNow nearly doubles Lyft’s potential market and
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In Brief X has not been faring well in the U.K., which used to be a major source of revenue for the social network prior to Elon Musk’s takeover. Still named Twitter UK Ltd, revenues and profits for X’s U.K. entity collapsed by over 60% in 2023, according to accounts filed this week with the U.K.’s Companies House. The company attributed the decline in revenues to lower advertising spending on the platform as a result of concerns over “brand safety and/or content moderation,” reported The Gua
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic launched major upgrades to its Claude AI assistant today, introducing an autonomous research capability and Google Workspace integration that transform the AI into what the company calls a “true virtual collaborator” for enterprise users. The expansion directly challenges OpenAI and Microsoft in the increasingly competitive market for AI productivity tools. T
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its Claude AI chatbot and could start rolling out “as soon as this month.” According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to roll out three English-language v
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Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the AI assistant into what Anthropic calls “your frontline workplace assistant.” Instead of manually digging through countless emails, calendar invites, and documents to find information, Claude now does that work for you — it can “pull together meeting notes from last week, identify ac
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European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk’s Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times. Carr said that politics having an influence on long-term decisions in Europe was “unfortunate,” and that “allied Western democracies” should instead be focusing on “the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party.” “If you’re concerned abo
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In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to “accelerate” the adoption of Anthropic’s AI among AWS accounts by “building programs that […] scale across global markets and segments.” That’s according to job listings on Anthropic’s website and job boards around the web. “[Y]ou will own and scale one of our most
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One of President Donald Trump’s top officials has warned European allies hesitant about working with Elon Musk’s satellite Internet company that they needed to choose between US and Chinese technology. Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times that “allied western democracies” needed to “focus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party.” His comments come as European governments and some European companies consider whether Starlink—
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Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late February. But what the post failed to mention is that Gemini had an advantage. As users on Reddit pointed out, the developer who maintains the Gemini str
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People say many things about entropy: entropy increases with time, entropy is disorder, entropy increases with energy, entropy determines the arrow of time, etc.. But I have no idea what entropy is, and from what I find, neither do most other people. This is the introduction I wish I had when first told about entropy, so hopefully you find it helpful. My goal is that by the end of this long post we will have a rigorous and intuitive understanding of those statements, and in particular, why the u
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Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit. In a post on X on Wednesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google would add support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, to its Gemini models and SDK. He did not specify a timeline for when this would be done. “MCP is a good protocol and it’s rapidly becoming an open standard for the AI agentic era,” wrote Hassab
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Potential PS5 buyers in Europe, the UK, Australia and more will now need to fork over up to 100 more AUD, EUR and other local currencies for a console. Sony has announced a series of price hikes for the PS5, blaming "a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates." The company last raised PS5 prices across these markets in 2022. Only the PS5 Digital Edition's cost changes in Europe and the UK. It will increase to €500 ($570) from €450 (
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Image by Peter Dazeley via Getty / Futurism Treatments A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics. In an interview with Wired, Clarify Clinics CEO Yael Cohen said that her London facility's bespoke blood-filtering service — which is otherwise known as apheresis and generally used for plasma donation or other so-called therapeutic plasma exchange procedures — is so comfortable that some patients doze off during it. "Once it’s
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Govee Neon Rope Light 2 is available in white or black and in two lengths: 10 feet and 16.4 feet. More pliable than other neon light strips on the market, the Govee Neon Rope Light 2 is easy to install and comes with bend clips to facilitate getting closed angles. The light strip doesn't have a template guide for setup It's also too bright to use as a night light, even at 1% brightness, but that's a highly personal preference. $99.99 at Amazon I love a good neon lig
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A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both natural and synthetic gum releases microplastics into the mouth when chewed, according to a statement published in Chemistry for Life. Out of the 10 brands of chewing gum that were tested, all were found to contain microplastics. According to the statement, "[The lab] measured an average of 100 microplastics released per gram of gum, though some individual gum pieces releas
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 23:59:24
The European Space Agency is inviting proposals to inject competition into the European launch market, an important step toward fostering a dynamic multiplayer industry officials hope, one day, will mimic that of the United States. The near-term plan for the European Launcher Challenge is for ESA to select companies for service contracts to transport ESA and other European government payloads to orbit from 2026 through 2030. A second component of the challenge is for companies to perform at lea
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April 12, 2025 at 06:54 Tags Math , Machine Learning Cross-entropy is widely used in modern ML to compute the loss for classification tasks. This post is a brief overview of the math behind it and a related concept called Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Information content of a single random event We'll start with a single event (E) that has probability p. The information content (or "degree of surprise") of this event occurring is defined as: \[I(E) = \log_2 \left (\frac{1}{p} \right )\] Th
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For glassmakers, a “Prince Rupert’s drop” is simple to make but strong enough to shatter a bullet. The way a drop of hot glass cools in water is the secret to its strength. The physics that make the drop so tough have applications for thin, yet strong, protective surfaces. Formed of a glass teardrop that elongates into a skinny tail, a “Prince Rupert’s drop” looks like a delicate, clear tadpole. It’s easy enough to snap the tail, but the rounded drop at the top itself? It’s unbelievably stron
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For glassmakers, a “Prince Rupert’s drop” is simple to make but strong enough to shatter a bullet. The way a drop of hot glass cools in water is the secret to its strength. The physics that make the drop so tough have applications for thin, yet strong, protective surfaces. Formed of a glass teardrop that elongates into a skinny tail, a “Prince Rupert’s drop” looks like a delicate, clear tadpole. It’s easy enough to snap the tail, but the rounded drop at the top itself? It’s unbelievably stron
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In Brief General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a factory in Canada because of weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, according to CNBC. GM told CNBC that the cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war being waged by President Donald Trump. The company is cutting one of the two shifts at the CAMI plant in Ontario, and will idle the facility for 20 weeks beginning in May. The cuts are the newest twist in BrightDrop’s short but somewhat tumultuous history. It created BrightD
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In Brief Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data “comprised” in publicly accessible posts by European users for the purposes of training generative AI models, according to a Reuters report. The powerful Irish privacy regulator has issued fines to Micros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 09:27:19
Dropbox’s chief customer officer, Eric Cox, plans to step down, according to a document filed with the SEC on Friday. Cox will remain in his current role for “a period of time” to help with the transition, per the filing, and then will continue as a “non-executive” employee through mid-August. The filing did not mention who would replace Cox. Cox joined Dropbox in November 2023 from Vimeo, where he was the COO overseeing sales, customer success, data, strategy and operations. Before that, Cox
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Dropbox’s chief customer officer, Eric Cox, plans to step down, according to a document filed with the SEC on Friday. Cox will remain in his current role for “a period of time” to help with the transition, per the filing, and then will continue as a “non-executive” employee through mid-August. Dropbox didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Cox joined Dropbox in November 2023 from Vimeo, where he was the COO overseeing sales, customer success, data, strategy, and operations. Prior
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Technology stocks plummeted Thursday and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 4% on the heels of its record-setting session. The index is headed for its best week since September. Markets reversed course, giving up some gains from a monster rally after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs and dropped the tariff on most countries to 10% to allow negotiations. However, the White House confirmed Thursday to CNBC that the cumulative tariff rate on China would total 145%. Apple d
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Tottenham Hotspur resumes its quest for Europa League glory on Thursday with a quarterfinal meeting against Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The Spurs have had a torrid domestic season in the Premier League, with serious questions hanging over the future of manager Ange Postecoglou. A win in this tourn
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