Elon Musk speaking at the Neauralink 2022 event | screenshot from Neuralink At a ‘show and tell’ event on Wednesday, Elon Musk said that his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, could implant one of its devices in someone’s head within the next six months — meaning it’s not happening this year. He also claimed that he…
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October. Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Getty Images A high-ranking EU official told Twitter CEO Musk the platform must comply with content moderation laws, per the FT. Twitter faces an EU-wide ban or fine if it breaches the EU’s law, commissioner Thierry Breton warned. Musk told Breton repeatedly that he…
Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, many of the season’s best deals have expired. Although we expect some to return before the holiday season ends, today we’re tracking two M2 iPad Pro deals you can still get on Amazon. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) detailed parts of its AI/ML strategy and announced a dizzying lineup of feature updates and new services to help organizations to better use the cloud for data science.Read MoreRead More
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One more reason to watch The Game Awards this year: Valve has announced it’ll give away a Steam Deck handheld gaming PC every single minute on December 8th. With a likely runtime of 2.5 hours — last year’s ran three — the company’s probably going to be giving…
Getty Images Following the FTX collapse, the founder and former CEO exchanged wild DMs with a Vox reporter. Sam Bankman-Fried said Wednesday he didn’t realize the conversation would be public. Bankman-Fried made the comments in a long and at times awkward interview with The New York Times. Sam Bankman-Fried said he didn’t realize the infamous…
Rome, Italy. querbeet/Getty Images Networking site InterNations released its annual ranking of the best and worst cities for expats. More than half of the 10 worst cities for expats in the world are in Europe. South Africa’s Johannesburg was voted the worst city overall for expats. Networking site InterNations has released its latest ranking of…
Antony Blinken (left) and Xi Jinping. Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images Antony Blinken says it’s a “sign of weakness” for Xi Jinping to quash Chinese dissent. He said the “massive repressive action” taken by Xi’s government is not a sign of strength. Blinken added that it’s obvious that China has…
Apple today announced that Slate‘s narrative podcast series “Slow Burn” has won the first-ever Apple Podcasts Award for Show of the Year. Apple says the podcast won the award in recognition of its latest season “Roe v. Wade,” in which Slate executive editor Susan Matthews explored the events leading up to the landmark Supreme Court…
Deep ‘blue holes,’ like this one off Belize, can collect evidence of hurricanes. The TerraMar Project This article was originally published on The Conversation. If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise. The year 2020 had the most tropical cyclones in the…