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Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays. Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as […]
Elon Musk wants courts to force OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake
Musk, who founded his own AI startup xAI in 2023, has recently stepped up efforts to derail OpenAI’s conversion. In […]
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
And a few months later, the Internet’s first password. British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein […]
Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
In just 20 minutes this morning, an automated license-plate-recognition (ALPR) system in Nashville, Tennessee, captured photographs and detailed information from […]
Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps
“I’m not gonna lie, I was nervous about it,” said Malmgren, who works as the senior policy director for Plug […]
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
John Lopatka, a former consultant to the FTC who now teaches antitrust law at Penn State, told ProPublica that the […]
Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem
Skip to content When the Sun doesn’t shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power. When the Sun […]
Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
Drug sales on the dark web are trending downward in favor of Snapchat, Telegram, and others. For every illegal drug, […]
Why do we get headaches from drinking red wine?
Putting enzymes to the test Testing ALDH was the next step. We set up an inhibition assay in test tubes. […]