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Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War
Yesterday, the head of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, asking for increased aid from the international community for Sudan and condemning the paramilitary groups that he says “have killed, looted, raped, robbed, and seized citizens’ homes and properties, and destroyed infrastructure and government buildings.”… Continue reading Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War
Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS in Kozhikode, Kerala—the previous day, all similarly sick. Would he take a look? He gathered his team of doctors to investigate. Soon they were at… Continue reading Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center
Google’s first data center consisted of 40-foot, server-filled shipping containers, which enabled advanced cooling and fewer construction headaches. It opened its own data center campus in Oregon in 2006, resembling the conventional bland, boxy, and massive buildings that now dot the world. But Barroso’s ideas made the insides exceptional. He and his Google colleagues turned… Continue reading Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center
The Great Unbundling of Rupert Murdoch
In a move that surely made the Succession theme play in the heads of all who got the push notification, Rupert Murdoch announced today that the “time is right” for him to step down as chair of Fox Corporation and News Corp, ending his seven-decade reign as mastermind of the media landscape. His retirement won’t… Continue reading The Great Unbundling of Rupert Murdoch
The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn
On September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed to be evidence of alien life to the Congress of Mexico. On September 19, Mexico’s scientific community gathered for a conference to ask a simple question in return: “Extraterrestrials or Llama Skeletons?” The answer was right there in the subtitle of the conference… Continue reading The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died
Fresh allegations of potential securities fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk over statements he recently made regarding the deaths of primates used for research at Neuralink, his biotech startup. Letters sent this afternoon to top officials at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by a medical ethics group call on the agency to… Continue reading The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died
What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Future of Art
Where does art begin and end? The question is at the center of a debate that roiled X (formerly known as Twitter) this month after an AI-generated image of a medieval village, titled Spiral Town, went viral. “I stole this from someone on Twitter who stole this from someone on Reddit,” a user named @deepfates… Continue reading What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Future of Art
The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War
The UK government has taken the unusual step of scaling back major climate commitments, despite widespread pushback from scientists, businesses, and lawmakers across the political divide. In a speech today, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK would push back deadlines for the planned phaseout of gas-powered vehicles, ending fossil-fuel heating in homes not connected… Continue reading The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War
OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT
This image, rendered by Dall-E 3, shows how using ChatGPT to fill in a prompt produces a more coherent and sophisticated image. It might normally require a huge amount of prompt engineering, whereby a user tries increasingly complex prompts to create something sophisticated. But with Dall-E 3, ChatGPT takes on the work of crafting that… Continue reading OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT