Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation. A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn’t…
The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV. So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that…
The X-37B spaceplane is flying missions few would have foreseen when the program began. The US military’s reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can navigate without relying on GPS…
Neuroscientists find people who don’t enjoy music, study their brain activity. “I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But it was a statement he…
“There’s really something special about the way moon jellies swim.” Climate change is warming ocean waters, making the environment more acidic thanks to the absorption of carbon monoxide from the atmosphere. This endangers various marine species, and monitoring those changes is vitally important. But it can be challenging to…
The $30,000 TV brings a new, colorful conversation to home theaters. Samsung provided ground transportation from Brooklyn, New York, to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, so Ars could demo its Micro RGB TV. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey—Micro LED is still years away, but…
The ruling also blocks the policy behind their termination. Shortly after the Trump Administration took office, it started cancelling grants for things it had disagreements with: funding for pandemic preparation, efforts to diversify the scientific workforce, those that targeted minority health issues, and more. These terminations were challenged in…
“Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money,” says CEO while fundraising at record prices. Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models. “Someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money,” he said, according to The Verge. The…
A new report looks at barriers to EV charging. There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about electric vehicle adoption here in the US. The current administration has made no secret of its hostility toward EVs and, as promised, has ended as many of the existing EV subsidies…
Apple, like other streamers, is facing a difficult economic reality. Apple has announced another price increase for its Apple TV+ video-streaming service. Starting today, a new monthly subscription will cost $12.99; it was previously $9.99. Existing subscribers will see the new price take effect during their next billing cycle.…
