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Stan is going to be grimly prescient. As climate change intensifies scarcity and conflict over resources, it displaces people and spreads disease. In Syria, extreme drought has forced more than 1.5 million farmers to move to overcrowded cities. Water shortages and degraded land have exacerbated existing government rights abuses and civil unrest. With over 12 million displaced Syrians,…
Why do I get the feeling that the first words we translate aren’t going to be “welcome fellow travellers”? US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are “on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs,” the sound of two vowels in a single…
Obviously I am revelling in a big dose of Schadenfreude… but equally as importantly it is a classic example of how LLMs are not the harbingers of AI doom. First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s your inability…
Elite is the game that got me into computing…
If any of you reading this happens to be a family member of a multi-billion dollar dynasty, I have great news — you are much richer than you were last year! A new report from Bloomberg states that the wealth of global dynasties increased by 43% in the last year.
There’s a new chip on the block, named the CH32V003. I’ll admit the name is a bit of a mouthful, I’ve idly been referring to it as “the chirty two” or “the double-oh three” but don’t let the unassuming name fool you, this chip is grand. It’s a self-contained microcontroller with a 48MHz RISC-V core…
The brains of this festive little tree is an ATmega328P, which you probably recognize as the microcontroller that powers the Arduino Uno. Although this circuit has none of the extra bits you’d find on an Uno, not even a crystal oscillator, it can still be programmed with Arduino and use the 8 MHz internal clock.
Ford and Resideo, a Honeywell Home thermostat brand, recently announced the EV-Home Power Partnership. It’s still in the testing phases, but it could help make EVs a more optimal purchase. Put simply, you could charge your EV when it’s cheap, and when temperatures or demand make grid power time-of-use expensive (or pulled from less renewable sources),…
Welcome to Edition 6.22 of the Rocket Report! We’re nearing the end of 2023, and it’s been an incredible year for rocket debuts. Early in the year we saw small lift vehicles from Relativity Space and ABL, and in the spring Japan’s H3 and SpaceX’s Starship rocket. There’s one big one left: United Launch Alliance’s…
Welcome to the trough of disillusionment people… In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI COO and CEO Sam Altman’s right-hand man Brad Lightcap said that certain aspects of AI are “overhyped,” especially when it comes to the sky-high expectations of the company’s enterprise AI customers. “And there’s almost never a silver bullet answer there — there’s never one…
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