Enlarge / AMD’s EPYC server processors are benefitting from Intel’s delays. (credit: AMD) Earnings reports for tech companies this quarter have been mixed at best. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and others have managed to eke out a little growth, while the likes of Meta and Nintendo shrank a little, and most companies’ projections for the next quarter...
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(BPRW) EDF’s Dr. Margot Brown teams up with Gates Ventures to Educate Next Generation of Climate Leaders
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – In a new video released in partnership with Gates Ventures and Open Educational Resources Project (OER), Dr. Margot Brown, vice president of Justice and Equity at Environmental Defense Fund, explains the impacts of climat
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(BPRW) Social Media Victims Law Center Files Suit Against Social Media Giants for the Race-Driven Anguish Suffered by One Small-Town Family
(Black PR Wire) PEORIA, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse, announced that it has filed suit on behalf of Damian Johnson, a single father
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The Crypto Market Crashed. They’re Still Buying Bitcoin.
Hard-core Bitcoin evangelists are making the case that Bitcoin differs from the unstable crypto projects that sent the market into a tailspin.
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How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
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Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate highlights the risks involved in standardizing the next generation of encryption algorithms. Last month, the US Department of Commerce’s...
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A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
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How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
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Charter loses home Internet customers, blames end of COVID subsidy program
Enlarge / Charter CEO Tom Rutledge speaks during The New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The two largest home Internet providers in the US both lost subscribers in the second quarter of 2022. On Friday, Charter Communications reported a loss of 42,000 residential...
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No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools
Enlarge / Is our machine learning yet? Over the past year, machine learning and artificial intelligence technology have made significant strides. Specialized algorithms, including OpenAI’s DALL-E, have demonstrated the ability to generate images based on text prompts with increasing canniness. Natural language processing (NLP) systems have grown closer to approximating human writing and text. And...