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Nvidia: AI boom is not over yet

Thursday at 08:27 AM, via TechCentral

Nvidia’s strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signalled that booming demand for its AI chips is intact.

Lottery Executive Gugulethu Yako Loses Bid To Delay Disciplinary Hearing

Thursday at 08:16 AM, via Tech Financials

Suspended National Lotteries Commission (NLC) legal boss Gugulethu Yako has failed to appeal a high court ruling that she must face disciplinary action. Johannesburg Acting High Court Judge Johan Moorcroft described Yako’s bid to set aside the ruling of her disciplinary hearing as a “delay tactic”. He dismissed Yako’s application to appeal and ordered that […]

South Africa should say goodbye to big power stations

Thursday at 08:10 AM, via MyBroadband

Utility-scale power stations will still play major part in South Africa’s energy mix for several years. However, the capability to install solar generation much closer to electricity users will.

Meet Chonkus: the CO2-chomping alga that could help tackle the climate crisis

Thursday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Synechococcus elongatusis soaks up carbon dioxide for its photosynthesis and stores more than other strains

Chonkus may sound like a champion Sumo wrestler but it is the nickname for a superpower strain of microbe that absorbs lots of CO2 relative to its size and stores it in its large cells.

Chonkus’s real name is Synechococcus elongatus, and it is a large and heavy strain of blue-green alga...

UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data

Thursday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Bumblebees declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to conservation charity

Figures show 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees in the UK since records began.

Bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. The researchers said the drop was probably due to the cold and...

Tin cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy? – podcast

Thursday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

When the palaeontologists of the future search for clues to understand how we lived, what might they find? Two scientists exploring this question have suggested that ‘technofossils’ will be our lasting imprint on the Earth. To find out exactly what these are and what they could reveal about our lives, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, and...

Tokyo Is Turning To a 4-Day Workweek To Shed ‘World’s Oldest Population’ Title

Thursday at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one of the country’s largest employers, is set to allow its employees to work only four days a week. It is also adding a new “childcare partial leave” policy, which will allow some employees to work two fewer hours per day. The goal is to help employees who are parents balance childcare and...

Lucid CEO Steps Down As EV Maker Plans To Double Production

Thursday at 03:40 AM, via Slashdot

Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson has stepped down, with COO Marc Winterhoff taking over as interim CEO. The company also announced its fourth-quarter financial results and revealed plans to more than double vehicle production to 20,000 units in 2025. CNBC reports: Winterhoff told CNBC on Tuesday that it was Rawlinson’s decision to resign as of Friday, however he declined to elaborate on any additional...

Pixel Watch 3 Gets FDA Clearance For Loss of Pulse Alerts

Thursday at 03:00 AM, via Slashdot

Google has received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection feature, which will start rolling out to U.S. devices around the end of March. The Verge reports: The Loss of Pulse Detection feature is exactly what it sounds like: if the Pixel Watch 3 senses that you’ve lost your pulse through an event like a heart attack or an overdose, it’ll send you a prompt. If you don’t...

Inception Emerges From Stealth With a New Type of AI Model

Thursday at 02:20 AM, via Slashdot

Inception, a Palo Alto-based AI company founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel diffusion-based large language model (DLM) that significantly outperforms traditional LLMs in speed and efficiency. “Inception’s model offers the capabilities of traditional LLMs, including code generation and question-answering, but with significantly faster performance and...

A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC

Thursday at 02:20 AM, via Wired

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.

Amazon Uses Quantum ‘Cat States’ With Error Correction

Thursday at 01:40 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Following up on Microsoft’s announcement of a qubit based on completely new physics, Amazon is publishing a paper describing a very different take on quantum computing hardware. The system mixes two different types of qubit hardware to improve the stability of the quantum information they hold. The idea is that one type of qubit is...

Satya Nadella Argues AI’s True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel

Thursday at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that AI’s success should be measured by its impact on economic growth rather than achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), emphasizing that true progress will come when AI finds a transformative application akin to email or Excel. The Register reports: “Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking,” the chief executive...

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