Tucked between two massive buildings in the hills of the Nevada desert, 805 retired EV batteries lie in neat formation, each one wrapped in nondescript white tarps — and hiding in plain sight. A passerby might not realize this unassuming array is the largest microgrid in North America, that it’s powering a 2,000 GPU modular…
T-Mobile and Starlink finally set a date. T-Mobile’s long-awaited partnership with Elon Musk’s Starlink service is currently in beta testing, but it will officially launch on July 23 — and at a surprisingly low cost. At a press conference this week, T-Mobile announced that T-Satellite, the satellite-to-mobile service, will soon be commercially available nationwide. And…
For Easier Reading Photograph: Nena Farrell If you’ve ever had a long reading session that gives you hand cramps, these accessories might help. You can check out more options in our Best Kindle Accessories guide. Strapsicle E-Reader Hand Straps for $21: Attach one or both of these to the back of your Kindle—one is angled…
While funding may be scarce for some, Europe’s fastest-growing startups still have their pick. The latest beneficiary of that investor appetite is Finom, a five-year-old, Amsterdam-based challenger bank that targets small and medium-size businesses across Europe. The company, which claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, just closed a €115 million Series C equity…
Nicole Rafiee has been around the block on YouTube. The 25 year-old creator made her first channel in middle school, and after deleting her channel a few times (she wasn’t thrilled when her high school’s football team found it), she started seriously posting to YouTube her sophomore year of college. These days, she’d have a…
Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun. It’s been a busy month for Midjourney. This week, the generative AI startup released its sophisticated new video tool, V1, which lets users make short animated…
When Baiju Bhatt stepped away from his role as Chief Creative Officer at Robinhood last year, only those close to him could have predicted his next move: launching a space company built around tech that the aerospace industry has largely dismissed, and which might be more groundbreaking than anyone realizes. If people aren’t paying much…
Meta’s Llama model has memorized Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone so well that it can reproduce verbatim excerpts from 42 percent of the book, according to a new study. Researchers from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University analyzed dozens of books from the now-infamous Books3 dataset, a collection of pirated books used to train…
On a mission to deliver an EV with long range but at low cost, Kia has high ambitions for this uniquely styled sedan. Source link
ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, or at least reinforced that kind of thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times. For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described asking the chatbot about “simulation theory,” with the chatbot seeming to confirm the theory and tell…
