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Enlarge / The future’s so bright, Mark Zuckerberg’s gotta wear shades. (credit: Meta) Thus far, Meta’s heavily money-losing Reality Labs division has been primarily focused on bulky virtual reality headsets (and some odd, display-free Ray-Ban branded sunglasses). So when Meta…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Adrienne Bresnahan) Cox Communications asked a court to block Rhode Island’s plan for distributing $108.7 million in federal funding for broadband deployment. If successful, Cox’s lawsuit could prevent other Internet service providers from obtaining grants…
A new study published in the Journal of Health Psychology has found that exposure to sunlight in the morning may improve sleep quality later that night. Individuals who spent time in the sun during the morning reported better sleep quality,…
An Asus Zenbook UX5406S with a Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 7 258V inside. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ] Two things can be true for Intel’s new Core Ultra 200-series processors, codenamed Lunar Lake: They can be both impressive and embarrassing. Impressive…
Enlarge / Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announces the Meta Quest 3 headset. (credit: Meta) At a Connect conference keynote today, Meta officially unveiled the Quest 3S headset, a cheaper version of last year’s Quest 3. The new spin-off device will be…
Enlarge (credit: Anadolu / Contributor | Anadolu) OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan that would place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities, Bloomberg reports. The AI company’s CEO, Sam Altman, supposedly pitched…
Enlarge / LG’s 2024 G4 OLED TV. (credit: LG) Last month, Ars Technica went on a deep dive into the rapid growth of ads in TV software. Less than three weeks later, LG announced that it was adding advertisements to…
The finding suggests that a drug to ease swelling can speed recovery and stop cell death.
An analysis of 24 conversational large language models (LLMs) has revealed that many of these AI tools tend to generate responses to politically charged questions that reflect left-of-center political viewpoints. However, this tendency was not observed in all models, and…
Evolving techniques and data indicate some ancient giants like Dunkleosteus and Megalodon may have been smaller than initial estimates suggested.
