Credit: Franklin Peña Gutierrez from Pexels A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country’s population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experienced the greatest impact from fatalities in the past five centuries. The new impact measure, introduced in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) by...
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Security-by-design push prompts new ISC2 accreditations
PhotoGranary – stock.adobe.com Security-by-design has become a hot-button regulatory issue. ISC2 has decided now is the time to upskill cyber pros around these vital software and hardware development principles By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 15 Feb 2024 14:41 With security-by-design principles becoming more widely adopted and enforced around the world, professional security training and...
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Climate indices and precipitation anomalies reveal stark implications for the Middle East
Monthly Dipole Mode Index (DMI) correlations with total precipitation over the Middle East. Significant correlations are shown in color using a student t-test at the 5% significant level. The correlation is most notable in October. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53677-x A new study led by Dr. Assaf Hochman from the Institute of Earth Sciences...
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What we’ve learned from 20 years of Facebook
Twenty years ago last Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg launched “TheFacebook,” an online directory designed to let his fellow Harvard students search for each other by interest, house, or class. It was modeled after Friendster, a now-defunct social networking site that, well, was a lot like Facebook. Zuckerberg touted TheFacebook’s robust privacy options in an interview with...
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visionOS 1.1 beta 2 is now available
Image: Foundry Apple Vision Pro is so fresh we don’t even have our review done yet. But Apple is wasting no time going from the version of visionOS that comes with the device (already updated to 1.02) to the next significant revision. We expect visionOS 1.1 to include features primarily aimed at app developers, though...
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For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition
With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer. A new study looking at Hudson Bay polar bears tries to figure out if they can keep up their roly-poly figure, which is what’s needed…Read whole article here
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Apple researchers unveil ‘Keyframer’: An AI tool that animates still images using LLMs
February 13, 2024 5:05 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) to animate static images through natural language prompts. This novel application, detailed in a new research paper published on arxiv.org, represents a giant leap in the...
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ChatGPT is getting a digital memory to recall your past conversations
One of the big drawbacks of talking to an AI chatbot is that everything resets once the conversation is done. It won’t remember who you are or what you previously queried. This is by design, for privacy reasons, but it really hampers the tech from growing into a true digital assistant that knows you well...
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Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in
Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI will advance with some of her legal team’s claims dismissed. The comedian sued OpenAI and Meta in July 2023, claiming they trained their AI models on her books and other work without consent. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the unfair competition portion of the lawsuit will proceed. Judge Martínez-Olguín gave
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Unleash your inner developer with this Microsoft Visual Studio & learn-to-code bundle, now $64.99
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Are you dreaming of building sleek apps, creating complex websites, or diving into the world of data science? The path to programming might seem daunting, but the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 and The 2024 Premium...