Science and Technology

Associated media - Connected media Spending time in cemeteries and libraries may not be everyone’s idea of ​​summer fun, but for those interested in finding their roots, gathering information about their ancestors AND a “family” holiday. Sure, genealogy sites have made researching ancestral history much easier with digitized record archives, family tree-building software, and community forums. Hand anything it’s online. As you visit libraries, archives and cemeteries in search of your roots, keep your smartphone or tablet handy: it can help you with translation tools, document scanners and more. Here are some tips that can make your research trips more…

Linked media - Connected media A closer look, however, would have revealed that individual journalists at BNN published lengthy stories as often as multiple times a minute, writing in generic prose familiar to anyone who has tinkered with the A.I. chatbot ChatGPT. BNN’s “About Us” page featured an image of four children looking at a computer, some bearing the gnarled fingers that are a telltale sign of an A.I.-generated image. How easily the site and its mistakes entered the ecosystem for legitimate news highlights a growing concern: A.I.-generated content is upending, and often poisoning, the online information supply. Many traditional…

Linked media - Associated media Apple announced that later this year it will improve messaging between iPhone and Android users by adopting advanced communications services, a standard that Google and others built into their messaging apps years ago. Texts sent between iPhone and Android will remain green, but images and videos will be higher quality. Losing your Apple wallet For iPhones, the reference app for making mobile payments in stores is Apple Wallet and for Android users the equivalent app is Google Wallet. The experience of using each wallet app was identical: I loaded my credit cards and the Clipper…

Connected media - Related media Liz Reid, Google’s recently promoted head of search, wrote in a blog post Thursday that the company has pared down its AI overviews in certain ways, rolling out “additional opt-in refinements” to deliver more health-conscious answers , disabling misleading advice and limiting the inclusion of satire and user responses from forums like Reddit. “We will continue to improve when and how we show AI overviews and strengthen our protections,” he wrote, adding that Google is working on updates to improve broad sets of search results. Ashley Thompson, a spokeswoman for Google, said in a statement…

Linked media - Linked media The bot then spawned an even bigger Waldo. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor and AI researcher at Arizona State University, also put the chatbot through some testing and said he didn’t notice any notable improvements in reasoning compared to the latest version. He presented ChatGPT with a puzzle involving blocks: The answer is that it is impossible to arrange the blocks under these conditions, but, just as with previous versions, ChatGPT-4o consistently found a solution that involved moving block C. With this and other reasoning tests, ChatGPT was occasionally able to take feedback to get the…

Associated media - Associated media Cuando David De Clercq viajó a San Francisco el año pasado, tenía unas cuantas paradas obligatorias en su itinerario: ir a Alcatraz. Prueba nuevos restaurantes. Y viaja en un coche autónomo. Los coches autónomos, también conocidos como vehículos autónomos o, coloquialmente, robotaxis, han estado circulando por las calles de San Francisco de alguna forma desde 2009 y han estado operando comercialmente desde agosto pasado. Los coches también se perfilan como la última atracción turística de la ciudad. De Clercq, de 42 años, que divide su tiempo entre Nueva Jersey y Cerdeña, donde posee restaurantes y…

Linked media - Associated media La veranda está al costado de la carretera y, con ella, se alcanzan las altas temperaturas. Para combatir el calor en las viviendas, el mejor aliado para el alcalde es el aire acondicionado . Sin embargo, los elevados costes de la electricidad hacen que muchas personas opten por pagarla. Además, los expertos advierten que estos equipos tienen un alto índice de contaminación. Si este es tu caso, no te preocupes por pasar unas vacaciones en el infierno. Existe una alternativa que consume mucha menos energía y no requiere gas ni instalación externa para su funcionamiento.…

Linked media - Connected media If 2023 was the tech industry’s year of the A.I. chatbot, 2024 is turning out to be the year of A.I. plumbing. It may not sound as exciting, but tens of billions of dollars are quickly being spent on behind-the-scenes technology for the industry’s A.I. boom. Companies from Amazon to Meta are revamping their data centers to support artificial intelligence. They are investing in huge new facilities, while even places like Saudi Arabia are racing to build supercomputers to handle A.I. Nearly everyone with a foot in tech or giant piles of money, it seems,…