Enlarge (credit: urfinguss | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Last month, the alleged masterminds behind Z-Library—an e-book pirate site that claims to be “the world’s largest library”—were arrested. According to a press release yesterday from the US Department of Justice, Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova have been charged with “criminal copyright infringement, wire…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Enlarge / Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. (credit: Getty Images | Angela Weiss) Eight former SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an internal letter criticizing Elon Musk have filed charges claiming they were unlawfully fired. Unfair labor practice…
Enlarge / One side of this image is the cheat-makers’ and one is the Ubisoft developers’, but we’re frankly not sure which is which… Last week, Ubisoft announced an “important security update” to prevent cheating on the popular Rainbow Six Siege. And while Ubisoft said it “cannot share details of the update in order to…
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), is taking proposals to compete for $750,000 in awards to develop projects that use innovative AI approaches, such as self-directed, remote AI tutoring, to train adults for the current and future national security workforce.Read More
Learning technology company D2L has launched its Brightspace Creator+ package, allowing anyone to create digital courses without having to learn coding.Read More
Occupancy technology company Occuspace has announced its expansion into several colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada to report real-time and historical space-usage data.Read More
I’m so excited to share my new book, City Under the City! It’s unlike any book I’ve ever created. FORMAT I have a deep abiding passion for picture books,but have been thinking about the early reader/graphic novel format for quite some time. I’ve been telling stories using sequential images my 30-year career in books, but…
Researchers reveal “missing link” between iodine and cloud formation. Unsplash Every dark cloud has a silver lining. At any given time, about 67 percent of Earth’s skies are covered with them. In comparison to what we know about other aspects of Earth’s atmosphere, scientists still know relatively little about how clouds form. Now, an international…
Who doesn’t love a meet-cute? Disney and Pixar have released a trailer for its upcoming animated feature Elemental, and it looks gorgeously swoon-worthy, with groovy music and vibes to match. Directed by Pixar’s Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, a magical metropolis where each denizen is comprised of water, air, land, or fire…
NVIDIA and Microsoft are collaborating on a new cloud-based AI-focused supercomputer, which they claim will be “one of the most powerful in the world” when complete. The new machine will leverage the supercomputing infrastructure of Microsoft Azure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking, and AI software. It’s set to contain ND- and NC-series virtual machines specifically…