(Image credit: Getty Images) Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than […]
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, December 17 (game #289)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great […]
Instagram finally has all the tools to make your own year in review for Stories
(Image credit: Shutterstock) You won’t need to search for another app to make an EOY recap for Instagram The app […]
In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts.
Matthew Decker is the former chief information officer for Penn State University’s Applied Research Laboratory. As of October, he’s also […]
Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter
Ars has reached out to the lead author, Megan Liu, but has not received a response. Liu works for the […]
ChatGPT brings its conversational search engine to everyone
(Image credit: ChatGPT) Day eight of the 12 Days of OpenAI was shorter than the previous days by several minutes, […]
PS Placeable: The adorable mod that turns a PlayStation Portable into a console
When Sony launched the PlayStation Portable almost exactly 20 years ago, the value proposition was right there in the name: […]
Hackers seek ransom after getting SSNs, banking info from state gov’t portal
Hackers trying to extort the Rhode Island government infiltrated the state’s public benefits system, causing state officials to shut down […]
Microsoft AI Research Introduces OLA-VLM: A Vision-Centric Approach to Optimizing Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are advancing rapidly, enabling machines to interpret and reason about textual and visual data simultaneously. […]
Meta FAIR Releases Meta Motivo: A New Behavioral Foundation Model for Controlling Virtual Physics-based Humanoid Agents for a Wide Range of Complex Whole-Body Tasks
Foundation models, pre-trained on extensive unlabeled data, have emerged as a cutting-edge approach for developing versatile AI systems capable of […]