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As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms

Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply issues that could impact business in the near future. “Today Apple is proud to report…

Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large. Source link

‘Green’ cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim

Chia is a cryptocurrency that relies on empty hard disk space Andrey Zhuravlev/Alamy A cryptocurrency marketed as a green alternative to bitcoin is actually consuming 18 times more energy than its makers originally claimed. Even management at the Chia Network…

Tennessee man uses lasers to make the world’s thinnest car

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A YouTuber armed with a 1988 Ford Festiva and a workshop full of lasers may have created the world’s thinnest street-legal car—-though it required…

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer’s protein

Alzheimer’s disease is often described in numbers, with millions of people affected, cases rising quickly, and costs reaching into the trillions. For families, however, the experience is deeply personal. “It’s a slow bereavement,” says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Nicholas…

The ROG Xbox Ally X Is Getting Some Updates, Including Automatic Super Resolution

The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X are getting a few convenient quality of life upgrades. Probably the most notable change is that the ROG Ally X will be getting Automatic Super…

How Adam Scott became an accidental horror movie star

Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, “probably too young” an age. But he never set out to work specifically in the genre. Even still, horror seemed to follow him around from the very beginning….

Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week

Meta doesn’t come up much in discussions of the top AI products these days, but its products are still benefiting from the ongoing surge of interest in the technology. The company’s business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per…

The Summer the American Water Crisis Turned Real

Two high-profile water crises, juiced up by climate change and industrial overuse, are building in the US. From a city in Texas staring down a drought emergency, to a decades-long political crisis coming to a head for seven states that…

Weird ‘transdimensional’ state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D

A graphene sheet is 2D – but some thin materials may not fit neatly into that category ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A new quantum state of matter behaves as if it doesn’t fully belong to a world with two or…