There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
The number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has ballooned in recent years, and the story is the same as in all popular destinations: traffic is a nightmare.
Things have become so congested that the cumulative volume of spacecraft and debris in LEO is unsustainable, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 2024 Space Environment Report determined. Without the widespread adoption of debris mitigation tactics, the report warns that the future of space travel could be in jeopardy.
A group of five U.S. senators are demanding OpenAI submit data showing how it plans to meet safety and security commitments that it has made about its artificial intelligence systems after a growing number of employees and researchers have raised red flags about the technology and the company’s safety protocols.
In a let
Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric-vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.
The Austin company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline.
Second-quarter revenue rose 2% to $25.5 billion, beating Wall Street estimates o
Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet, delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its Internet empire.
The second-quarter report released Tuesday showed that Google is still reeling in advertisers on the heels of the May introduction of an artificial-intelligence feature that p
Meta today released a trio of new open-source large language models called Llama 3.1, the largest of which may lead to new chatbots that rival ChatGPT. In fact, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes the company’s Llama powered AI assistant will be more widely used than ChatGPT by the end of this year.
Llama 3.1 is actually a small family of models–Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B. (The numbers connote the number
Among the many thoughts that drifted through my mind over the course of four long hours at San Diego International Airport last Friday: Delta will pay for this. Even now, the airline and thousands of my fellow travelers are still struggling through the largest snafu in the airline’s history. I learned this when I tried to fly home on Friday, when Delta canceled my flight, couldn’t book me on another flight for two days, and refused to provide accommodations, food or reimbursement for anythin
CrowdStrike: the ultimate tech disruptor? It was for at least a couple of days last week, when the cybersecurity firm released an update that subsequently bricked computers across numerous industries, including medical record systems, and canceled hundreds if not thousands of flights.
In all, the economic costs could tally into the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, as companies across t
Some of the staff at Elon Musk’s Neuralink are making preparations to sell the brain implant company’s stock in the wake of its valuation jumping following its first human trial, according to people familiar with the matter.
Stock compensation is
In 2022 alone, there were nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths worldwide, per a report by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). By 2040, the NCI predicts, the number of new cancer cases per year will rise to 29.9 million, and the number of cancer-related deaths will climb to 15.3 million. And though b