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When Nvidia replaced the longstanding GeForce Experience App with a new, unified Nvidia App last month, most GPU owners probably noted the refresh and rebranding with nothing more than bemusement (though the new lack of an account login requirement was…
Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have caused companies to lose some of their best workers, a study tracking over 3 million workers at 54 “high-tech and financial” firms at the S&P 500 index has found. These companies also have greater challenges finding…
How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally popped up to offer a demonstration or make…
An Alabama woman underwent a transplant procedure to get a new kidney from a gene-edited pig.
Alcohol consumption by humans is a well-documented aspect of history and culture, but it appears humans might not be the only species regularly exposed to ethanol. A recent review in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution explores how ethanol,…
Application developers who access OpenAI through its long-running API will now have access to the company’s latest full o1 model, rather than the months-old o1-preview. The upgrade is one of a number of new features being rolled out to OpenAI’s…
The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here’s why it was changed.
While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite.
“Tell a man he shouldn’t think of a pink elephant and he can’t get that beast out of his mind!” This quote, from Curt Siodmak’s 1974 novel City in the Sky, describes how hard it can be to suppress our…
TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to step in before it’s forced to shut down the app in the US next month. In a petition requesting a temporary injunction, TikTok prompted the Supreme Court to block the ban and grant…
