• Mon, December 9, 2024

by: KPBS

Yes, the number of food recalls has been rising. Here's what you need to know

by: Daily Express

Your Fire TV Stick can't match this cheap Amazon upgrade - time to try something new?

Amazon is dishing out its Ultimate Fire TV Stick at a cheaper price and things get even better if you trade in what you already own.

by: Sydney Morning Herald

The fluorescent red mozzies that could protect us from other blood-hungry biters

A British company wants to release genetically modified mosquitoes to wipe out an aggressive, disease-causing species threatening to invade Australia.

by: jagranjosh.com

CGBSE 12th Time Table 2025: Download CG Board Class 12 Datesheet PDF, Check Exam Timings

The CGBSE Class 12th exam time table 2025 has been released on the official website cgbse.nic.in. Check here for the latest updates.

by: Health News Florida

USF to confer more than 3,900 degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Dec. 13-14

The fall 2024 graduating class at the University of South Florida includes a 16-year-old, a 70-year-old grandmother of four, and an electrical engineer seeking to revolutionize the medical, space exploration and military industries.

by: India TV

CGBSE Chhattisgarh Class 10, 12 datesheet 2025 released, check complete schedule

The 2025 datesheet for CGBSE Chhattisgarh Class 10 and 12 has been announced. Students gearing up for the 2025 board exams can view the official exam schedule here.

by: Health.com

Researchers Uncover Surprising Connection Between Air Pollution and Lupus

Research found that long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution may elevate the risk of developing lupus and other autoimmune disorders. Experts explain the connection and recommend precautions.

by: USA Today

Supreme Court won't review admissions policy challenged as unfair to whites, Asian Americans

Schools have scrambled to react to the Supreme Court's 2023 decision ending the use of affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

by: The Hill

Supreme Court turns away Boston school admissions policy challenge as Alito, Thomas dissent

The Supreme Court turned away a group of white and Asian parents' challenge to a temporary admissions policy at Boston's prestigious "exam schools" over dissents from two of the court's

by: Live Science

Google's new quantum chip has solved a problem the best supercomputer would have taken a quadrillion times the age of the universe to crack

Google's new 105-qubit "Willow" quantum processor has surpassed a key milestone first proposed in 1995 — with errors now reducing exponentially as you scale up quantum computers.

by: Business Standard

Princeton-educated, consensus builder Sanjay Malhotra appointed new RBI Guv

A computer science engineer and master's in public policy from Princeton University, Sanjay Malhotra, the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is a known consensus builder and the person instrumental in the implementation of the new income tax regime.

by: Texas Public Radio

Yes, the number of food recalls has been rising

by: The Globe and Mail

The Onion's bid to buy Infowars goes before U.S. judge as Alex Jones tries stopping sale

A U.S. bankruptcy judge is set to hear testimony about the auction and how a trustee chose The Onion over the only other bidder - a company affiliated with Jones that offered twice as much money

by: Express & Star

Work at Wombourne school to create 'state-of-the-art' building is progressing

Work to create a new building at a Wombourne school is progressing. The new learning space at Wombourne High School is on track for completion, with teaching set to begin there in Autumn 2025. It will offer Science, Design, Technology, and Music facilities for pupils at the Ounsdale Road school, which is part of the Invictus Education Trust.

by: TechRadar

Microsoft challenges you to hack its LLM email service

Winning teams for the LLMail-Inject challenge will be awarded a share of the $10,000 prize pool.

by: Daily Mail

How NYPD is using AI, drones and DNA in manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

As the search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer enters its sixth day, police are using cutting-edge technology to zero-in on his identity and whereabouts.

by: New America

CHIPS' Place-based Tech Hub Investments Create Opportunities for HBCUs

HBCU partnerships can bolster inclusive, place-based, tech-driven economic development efforts catalyzed by the CHIPS and Science Act.

by: Duluth News Tribune

Minnesota tech business receives $35 million in state, federal funds

by: Pew Research Center

How Americans View Climate Change and Policies to Address the Issue

Among Republicans, 56% think climate policies usually hurt the U.S. economy. By contrast, 52% of Democrats say they usually help.

by: Forbes

AI For Climate Change: A Range Of Ideas On Applications

It's easy to see how AI might help here. Deployment is a logistical thing, where innovation is much more creative in a sense. So there is a good point to be made about how the technology will bring us from a dream project, to a reality in a prototype or beta phase.

by: Government Executive

Protecting the civil service and tech upgrades are top priorities for Virginia's new House Democrat

Come January, the Virginia Democrat will be back on familiar House ground when he's sworn in to represent the state's 10th District, which includes the entirety of Loudoun and Fauquier counties and parts of Fairfax, Prince Williams and Rappahanock counties.

by: NextBigFuture

Technical Challenges to Scale Beyond GPT4 to 100K H100s

Up until now, no one has been able to massively increase the amount of compute dedicated to a single model beyond the OpenAI GPT 4 model level.

by: Popular Science

Surprise: EV batteries might have a longer shelf live than once thought

Large, resource-intensive lithium ion batteries powering emerging electric vehicle fleets are already straining global mineral supply chains. Nearly one in five cars sold worldwide last year was electric,

by: ABC

Trump's Cabinet woes are back, earlier than ever

It's a throwback to the human-resources turmoil that marked Trump's previous stint in the White House. During his first four years, Trump had more failed Cabinet nominations than any president since at least Jimmy Carter — and this time around, he's already the fastest president (-elect) in decades to see a Cabinet nominee fail.

by: Roll Call

Sacks seen bringing 'on the ground' experience to AI's global challenges

David Sacks, a venture capitalist in high-tech, was chosen to become White House "AI & Crypto Czar" by President-elect Trump.

by: Wired

Manufacturing Next-Gen Microchips in the Age of AI

SCHOTT's breakfast roundtable at WIRED's Big Interview conference, convened industry leaders to discuss how AI is affecting the world's semiconductor industry.

by: Phys.org

Team seeks to set new standards in high-resolution microscopy using a quantum optics trick

About 100 years ago, humanity learned to see with the help of electrons. In 1924, Louis de Broglie posited that—like light particles—electrons have wave properties. In 1927, the U.S. physicists Davisson and Germer provided experimental proof of this.

by: Forbes

Ten Tech-Focused Summer Programs For High School Students In 2025

No matter what career students are interested in, gaining hands-on experience in tech-focused summer programs can help them gain valuable skills.

by: CBS News

Supreme Court turns away challenge to admissions criteria at Boston high schools

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to race-neutral admissions criteria at three Boston high schools that aimed to increase racial and economic diversity.

by: CNN

Supreme Court declines to review Boston case and 'race neutral' efforts to diversify public schools

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide whether three elite Boston public schools violated the Constitution with a zip-code based admissions policy intended to ensure racial diversity.

by: Daily Express

Apple's newest iPad sees big price drop before Christmas

Apple products rarely have price drops - especially before Christmas but Amazon has done just that. You can get the 11-inch M4 iPad Pro for £899 from the Bezos website in a pretty rare deal and it even arrives before Christmas.

by: Nature

'A truly remarkable breakthrough': Google's new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone

Over the past few years, several companies — including IBM and Amazon's AWS — and academic groups have shown that error correction can produce small improvements in accuracy 2, 3, 4. Google published a result in early 2023 using 49 qubits in its Sycamore quantum processor, which encodes each physical qubit in a superconducting circuit.

by: Reuters

US Supreme Court rejects Boston case over race in school admissions

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday a chance to further restrict efforts to promote racial diversity in education, turning away a case over whether criteria that had been used to decide admissions to elite public high schools in Boston discriminated against white and Asian students.

by: Nature

The first rocks from the Moon's far side are in this geologist's hands

On 25 June, Li Chunlai watched eagerly as a capsule carrying the first pieces of the far side of the Moon landed on Earth. "Sample, I finally got you," he thought, as if speaking to an adversary he had spent years trying to outwit.

by: MSN

Electrochemical device provides on-site wastewater treatment

Conventional wastewater treatment involves the centralized collection of wastewater from sources through pipes to large-scale treatment plants, where it is treated in bulk. However, this is not feasible in small,

by: The New York Times

Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough

Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That's older than the universe.)

by: MSN

3 Electronics Testing Stocks to Watch From a Prospering Industry

The Zacks Electronics - Testing Equipment industry has been benefiting from 5G-related growth opportunities, strengthening automation drive and the Industry 4.0 momentum for a while. A strong recovery in the automotive sector,

by: MSN

Ingenious DIY Inventions You Can Make at Home

Discover these ingenious DIY inventions that can be easily made at home. In this DIY crafts tutorial, explore simple yet creative ideas that are fun to build and perfect for beginners. The video features innovative tech gadgets and life hacks that anyone can try.

by: MSN

Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi's open approach to AI challenges the industry's norms

Hanna Hajishirzi's work is based on a belief that the world deserves to know more about powerful AI models than big tech companies are willing to reveal.

by: MSN

Magnetic-Driven Kirigami Metasheet Enables Remote Control of Flexible Surfaces

NC State's magnetic kirigami metasheet technology offers a novel solution for manipulating fragile objects remotely, enhancing efficiency in confined areas.

by: MSN

AI supercharged the sciences in 2024, revealing a major breakthrough in Alzheimer's diagnosis

A surge of AI-powered breakthroughs reminds us of the good that artificial intelligence can do, when placed in the right hands.

by: MSN

AI-powered tutor tested as a way to help educators and students

Khanmigo, an AI-powered online tutor, could change the way teachers work and students learn. Created by Khan Academy, the new technology is being piloted in 266 school districts.

by: MSN

Transforming Business Through Data Science: Antony Akisetty's Journey in AI and Analytics

Antony Akisetty is a distinguished Data Scientist with over 13 years of expertise in implementing AI and analytics solutions across healthcare, manufacturing, and public safety sectors.

by: MSN

New report from CSIRO warns against nuclear power for Australia

A new report from the CSIRO has found nuclear energy does not stack up for Australia even after considering new parameters, with large-scale solar and big batteries still the lowest-cost option.

by: MSN

? This electronic tattoo connects to your brain ?

Temporary tattoos capable of reading thoughts: no, this is not science fiction, but a technological breakthrough born in an American laboratory. These electronic tattoos, designed to record

by: MSN

Launch code for US nuclear arsenal was 00000000 until 1977

When you think about security passwords, your mind probably goes to lengthy, complex combinations; especially when we're talking about something that can kill billions of people and start a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

by: MSN

Battery breakthrough extends EV range to over 3,000 miles on a single charge

by: MSN

IIT Guwahati develops technology to convert methane and carbon dioxide into eco-friendly biofuel

The research is co-authored by Prof Debasish Das and Dr Krishna Kalyani Sahoo, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati.

Apple's newest iPad sees big price drop before Christmas

Apple products rarely have price drops - especially before Christmas but Amazon has done just that. You can get the 11-inch M4 iPad Pro for £899 from the Bezos website in a pretty rare deal and it even arrives before Christmas.
The article from Express.co.uk discusses a significant discount on the latest iPad Pro model available on Amazon. The iPad Pro, which features the new M4 chip, is currently offered at a reduced price, making it an attractive option for consumers looking to upgrade their tablet. The deal highlights the device's advanced capabilities, including enhanced performance, better battery life, and improved graphics, positioning it as a top choice for both professional and casual users. The article also notes that this discount might not last long, urging potential buyers to act quickly to take advantage of the offer.

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https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1986213/ipad-pro-amazon-m4-deal

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