Daily Telescope: Seeing stars with an iPhone in the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Enlarge / Stars over the Grand Canyon. (credit: Mitchell Yee) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a…
Why is Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot so unfunny?
Do you trust this man to know a good joke? | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Fine. Let’s talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune…
Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes
Enlarge / Solid rocket motors are stacked at the California Science Center for an eventual vertical display of space shuttle Endeavour. Welcome to Edition 6.22 of the Rocket Report! We’re…
YouTubers can now pause comments after Google moderation tweaks
YouTube’s new comment moderation feature lets you take a break from commenters without removing your existing video comments. | Image: YouTube YouTube has introduced a new moderation tool for creators…
Reflectiz Introduces AI-powered Insights on top of Its Smart Alerting System
Ramat Gan, Israel, December 7th, 2023, Cyberwire Reflectiz, a cybersecurity company specializing in continuous web threat management, proudly introduces a new AI-powered capability enhancing its Smart Alerting system. The new…
Google Deepmind Gemini Is the World’s Best AI
Google Gemini breaks 90% mark for MMLU, which is beyond expert human level for this set of tests. For the first time, a large language model has breached the 90%…
QuEra CoFounder Vlad Vuletic Targets Useful Error Corrected Quantum Computers in 2025-2028
Vlad Vuletic (MIT Co-founder of QuEra) had a scientific and technical presentation at the 2023 Q2B conference today. The main part of the talk came on the last slide where…
China’s Population Will Age and Rapidly Shrink
At the end of 2022, China had 280.0 million people aged 60 and over and this was 19.8% of the national population. 210 million people are aged 65 and over…
The Finals launches with destructive chaos like I’ve never seen before
Image: Embark Studios The Finals is a unique new shooter where everything is destructible. It’s available now on PS5, Xbox Series S / X, and PC. Continue reading…
Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds for 2025
Image: Capcom Things are about to get a little bit wild in the world of Monster Hunter. At The Game Awards this evening, Capcom revealed the latest entry in the…