Is this a lion-killing monkey or just an atypical eastern chimpanzee? Anup Shah/Getty Images Nestled deep in the wilderness of the Congo Basin, lies the Bondo monkey stands at the crossroads of legend and scientific reality. Once seen only in fleeting glimpses, this creature has become the focus of intense curiosity and rigorous investigation. A … Read more
Forget spring: This week, much of the interior U.S. gets a taste of summer. A wave of unusually high temperatures — often 30 to 40 degrees above average — is blasting states from Texas to the Dakotas and east to the shores of the Great Lakes. That heat follows the hottest December on record, and … Read more
Samsung transparent microLED. Andy Edser, hardware writer Andy Edser This month I tested: Laptops and flight sticks again, with an emphasis on a few RTX 4090 mobile beasts. I still think the RTX 4080 mobile is a much better call for a laptop GPU, but some will always prefer the biggest GPU you can buy, … Read more
Just over two years after forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi into an extraordinary about-face, protesting Indian farmers are back on the streets – and this time the stakes are higher. For about two weeks, thousands of angry farmers have gathered at the borders of the Indian capital to demand higher fixed prices for their crops, … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students are watching Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students are using gambling apps to place bets during the school day. Across the country, educators say students are routinely sending Snapchat messages in class, listening to music … Read more
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast This month, a trio of computer scientists won the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to use artificial intelligence to reveal four passages from Ancient Greek that had been encased in a charred scroll for 2,000 years. The artifact was found in Herculaneum, a Roman seaside resort destroyed by the eruption … Read more
Semiconductor designer Qualcomm (QCOM) presented its latest generation of chips and AI models for mobile devices at the World Mobile Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkhiwala sits down with Yahoo Finance’s Brad Smith to discuss the company’s artificial intelligence hub and use cases across devices: “You already see the benefit … Read more
Apple boss Tim Cook has officially announced that his company will launch an AI product this year (Apple) In just over a year, it feels like we’ve been bombarded with artificial intelligence chatbots. There’s ChatGPT and its extended clones, the uncanny valley Picassos led by Midjourney, and a creepy group of AI girlfriends. If you … Read more