Just two years after strong-arming Prime Minister Narendra Modi into an extraordinary U-turn, India’s protesting farmers are back on the streets — and this time the stakes are higher. For nearly two weeks, thousands of angry farmers have gathered on the borders of India’s capital to demand higher fixed prices for their crops, just weeks… Read More »
Samsung transparent microLED. Andy Edser, Hardware writer Andy Edser This month I’m testing: Laptops and flight sticks once again, focusing on a few RTX 4090 mobile beasts. I still think the RTX 4080 mobile is a much better product for a laptop GPU, but some will always opt for the biggest GPU you can buy,… Read More »
Illustration: Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast This month, three computer scientists won the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition that used artificial intelligence to uncover four ancient Greek passages hidden for 2,000 years inside a charred scroll. The artifact was found in Herculaneum, a Roman resort town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. “This… Read More »
Security stands outside Beverly Vista Middle School in Beverly Hills (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) The new face of bullying in schools is reality. What is fake is the body underneath the face. Last week, officials and parents at Beverly Vista Middle School in Beverly Hills were shocked by reports that fake images superimposing real students’… Read More »
Apple boss Tim Cook officially announced that his company will launch an artificial intelligence product this year (Apple) In just over a year, it feels like we’ve been bombarded with AI chatbots. There’s ChatGPT and its elaborate clones, uncanny valley Picassos led by Midjourney, and a creepy coterie of AI girlfriends. If you want to… Read More »
Scientists looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”; It was given this nickname because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They found that it began to retreat rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that gives an alarming glimpse of future melting. Thwaites Glacier in… Read More »
As EU agriculture ministers met to discuss the crisis in their sector, farmers in Brussels’ European district engaged in violent clashes with police, sprayed officers with liquid manure and set fire to piles of tires. Farmers also protested in Madrid and on the Polish-German border, while police said at least 900 tractors blocked the streets… Read More »
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada data show some parts of Alberta are facing severe drought conditions. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press – image credit) In the Northwest Peace River region, on Jolene Noble’s family cattle ranch near Manning, Alta., there is barely any snow on the ground; It’s something he says he’s never seen before. Ranchland No.… Read More »