To play this content, please enable JavaScript or try a different browser Video Caption, Passenger images show people stranded in a dark terminal at Manchester Airport Item information Author, Ewan Gawne Role, BBC news June 23, 2024, 07:00 BST Updated 7 minutes ago All flights from the two main terminals at Manchester Airport have been … Read more
Don’t miss the leaders from OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and grow your network during this exclusive three-day event. Learn more A new large language model (LLM) has apparently taken the performance crown from OpenAI’s GPT-4o about a month after its release: rival … Read more
Meredith Whittaker practices what she preaches. As chair of the Signal Foundation, she is a powerful voice advocating for privacy for all. But she doesn’t just spout empty words. In 2018, she entered the public eye as one of the organizers of the Google strikes, mobilizing 20,000 of the search giant’s employees in a dual … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Natalie Sherman Role, BBC news June 12, 2024 In 2018, Tesla shareholders approved the largest pay package in history for Elon Musk. Will they do it again six years later? The electric car company will find out this week at its annual meeting, where it is seeking support … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The staggering demand for the electricity needed to power next-generation technology is forcing the US to rely on yesterday’s fuel source: coal. Retirement dates for the country’s aging fleet of coal-fired power plants are being … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Switzerland has endorsed a long-sought technology known as “nuclear transmutation” to dramatically reduce the amount of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Nagra, the Swiss national agency that manages nuclear waste, said it had spent … Read more
Image caption, Wylfa’s previous power station stopped generating energy in 2015 Item information Author, Huh Thomas Role, BBC Wales business correspondent May 22, 2024 Updated 9 minutes ago Wylfa on Anglesey has been chosen as the preferred site for a large-scale nuclear power station, the UK government has said. International energy companies have started talks … Read more
TORONTO, May 21, 2024 – Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI)a global content and technology company, today brought the combined power of Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, the professional AI assistant with deep content expertise, to life with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI companion. Thomson Reuters today took a major step forward in its collaboration with Microsoft in an onstage … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The electricity demand of data centers is expected to double between 2022 and 2026 Item information Author, Chris Baraniuk Role, Technology reporter 4 hours ago There’s a big problem with generative AI, says Sasha Luccioni of Hugging Face, a machine learning company. Generative AI is an energy hog. “Every … Read more
Magnetic fields in the Milky Way’s halo have a toroidal structure, extending in a radius range from 6,000 light-years to 50,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. The sun is about 30,000 light years away. Credit: NAOC Astrophysicists have discovered large magnetic toroids in the Milky Way‘s halo, which affects cosmic ray propagation … Read more