Does the Metaverse need to be on a blockchain? Blockchain-based solutions have seen financial, legal, gaming and social applications, albeit at a relatively small scale over the last few years. Howeve...
Artificial intelligence thinkers seem to emerge from two communities. One is what I call blue-sky visionaries who speculate about the future possibilities of the technology, invoking utopian fantasies...
Every day, people throughout your organization make decisions—possibly hundreds of them—that either increase or decrease its sustainability. Which supplier should we choose? Do we procure green glass ...
Are coders doomed? That question has been bouncing around computer-programming communities ever since OpenAI’s large language model, GPT-3, surprised everyone with its ability to create html websites ...
As the weather gets hot and dry, things get a little bit tense these days. While it’s been possible for humans to be on the lookout for fires (there are even organizations that make it easy to volunte...
If someone showed you a photo of a crocodile and asked whether it was a bird, you might laugh—and then, if you were patient and kind, help them identify the animal. Such real-world, and sometimes dumb...
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has been asked by the Indian government and the central bank to introduce more stringent checks to help curb the use of illegal digital lending applications in In...
Chrome, comme la plupart des navigateurs aujourd’hui, peut enregistrer les mots de passe et en créer de nouveaux lors d’inscriptions. Les fonctions élémentaires d’un gestionnaire de mots de passe, en ...
Après plusieurs mois de bêta, QNAP met à jour son système d’exploitation pour ses NAS. Contrairement à ce que son numéro pourrait laisser penser, cette version 5.0.1 n’est pas mineure. Elle apporte d’...
Jeudi, une brèche a été découverte dans la sécurité chez Uber. La découverte a entraîné une coupure de plusieurs services internes, ainsi que des accès à des plateformes externes utilisées comme Slack...
On doit la publication de près de 3 Go de données et 90 vidéos à Teapotuberhacker sur GTAForums (topic supprimé depuis, mais toujours dans le cache de Google). Après une période de doute, l’authentici...
Le mois dernier, Lastpass avertissait d’une brèche de sécurité. Avec la publication d’une mise à jour vendredi soir, on en sait désormais plus. Selon le PDG Karim Toubba, le pirate qui s’est int...
Around 15,000–20,000 years ago, as the last ice age began to recede, human populations transitioned from a way of life that depended on hunting and gathering to one that favored agriculture. This time...
Speaking to animals has long been a fantasy. But now a dizzyingly ambitious project is harnessing all the power of modern science in an attempt to understand what whales say – and then hold conversati...
China installed almost as many robots in its factories last year as the rest of the world, accelerating a rush to automate and consolidate its manufacturing dominance even as its working-age populatio...