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Sony today provided a closer look at the iPhone rigs used to shoot the upcoming post-apocalyptic British horror movie "28 Years Later" (via IGN). With a budget of $75 million, Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later will become the first major blockbuster movie to be shot on iPhone. 28 Years Later is the sequel to "28 Days Later" (2002) and "28 Weeks Later" (2007), which depict the aftermath of a zombie-style pandemic in the United Kingdom.

Apple today said that European customers will not get access to the Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing features that are coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac this September due to regulatory issues related to the Digital Markets Act. In a statement to Financial Times, Apple said that there will be a delay as it works to figure out how to make the new functionality compatible with the European Union's competition rules.

Apple will debut a major revamp of the Calculator app in macOS 15 later this year, according to AppleInsider. The overhauled version of the Calculator app for Mac will reportedly feature: An enhanced unit conversion system located in the main user interface, including for currency conversion with up-to-date exchange rates. "Math Notes" to allow the Notes app to communicate with the Calculator app in mathematical notation, also coming to iOS 18.

To celebrate Apple's twentieth anniversary, AppleDesign provides a rare inside look at the Industrial Design Group, examining the role this small...

Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See live tube trains across all lines including Central, Northern, Victoria, and more.

Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The material hardens over time, so it could be used for buildings, they say.

The 56-qubit H2-1 computer has broken the previous record in the 'quantum supremacy' benchmark first set by Google in 2019.

An AI-driven supercomputer dubbed Earth's 'digital twin' could help us avoid the worst impacts of climate catastrophes headed our way.

In physics, certain fluids have the unique property of zero viscosity. In other words, they flow without friction.

The term "radical incrementalism" has come up quite a few times in the last couple of days.

The best way to make sure that AI doesn’t make you intellectually lazy is to not use it in an intellectually lazy way.

40% de los trabajos en mercados emergentes están altamente expuestos a la #IA según el International Monetary Fund. Claude 3.5 de Anthropic se lanzó el jueves 20/06/2024 y es el modelo de lenguaje más avanzado del mercado. Es capaz de crear "artefactos" en tiempo real, ya sean piezas de trabajo en código, documentos, o diseños web, a medida que trabajas. A continuación, una #demo de la creación de una matriz de 2x2 de escenarios futuros sobre el futuro del trabajo y la IA. Esto me llena de un optimismo urgente, preguntándome: -¿Cómo serán los trabajos? -¿Qué trabajos podrán hacer mis hijos? -¿Cuáles son las habilidades necesarias para navegar esta ola? -¿Cómo capacitarnos junto a nuestros hijos en estas habilidades? ----- "Claude 3.5, create an interactive simulation of future scenarios focusing on the Future of AI and Work highlighting the impact on the workforce and employment, showing a 4x4 matrix with two critical uncertainties on each axis, where each axis is a polarity in a future trend and each quadrant is a possible future scenario as the two polarities of each axis relevant to that quadrant converge. The axes can be: AI Evolution and AI Regulation. Take a deep breath and work step by step." "Improve it." x2 #Foresight #FuturesThinking #FutureOfWork #Innovacion #InsightsDeLaSemana #FuturesSkills #AIagents #UrgentOptimism #Transformation #NextWave

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View pay distributions for software engineers visualized through different geographical regions within the US.

This work was produced as part of Neel Nanda's stream in the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort, with co-supervision from…

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We've all heard of LLM-induced psychosis by now, but haven't you wondered what the AIs are actually doing with their newly psychotic humans?

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, declared that people "should be worried" about losing their jobs to AI, insisting the need to "stop sugar-coating" the truth.

OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with Alexis Gauba for the world's first early review.

H100s used to be $8/hr if you could get them. Now there's 7 different resale markets selling them under $2. What happened?

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Ray Kurzweil is a scientist, futurist, and Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google. He's the author of numerous books, ...

A consultant and keynote speaker shares how AI, hybrid work, and uncertainty are reshaping the accounting profession. Ahead of his sessions at the Digital CPA Conference, Pascal Finette assesses the profession’s willingness to change.

Ford can't find auto mechanics -- for $120,000 a year. Most high school graduates don't know enough math (or read well enough) to succeed in job training.

UPDATE 9/23: The CEO of Elecrow responded. I've posted a follow-up blog post with my reaction to the response and some other thoughts on AI voice cloning. Listen to this clip: Your browser does not support the video tag. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar. I mean I would like you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. But that's the Jeff Geerling channel, not Elecrow, where the clip above is from. I never said the words that are in that video.

Six out of eight regions in Japan could see weekly sports cancellations due to dangerous heat by the 2060s.