Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Enlarge / A rendering of Microsoft’s Copilot key, as seen on a Surface-esque laptop keyboard. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft pushed throughout 2023 to add generative AI capabilities to its software, even…
Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years
Image: Microsoft Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it’s kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.…
B-100 and X-100 Nvidia AI Chips and Zettaflops AI Compute Clusters
The NVIDIA H100 GPU has 30 teraflops of peak standard IEEE FP64 performance, 60 teraflops of peak FP64 tensor core performance, and 60 teraflops of peak FP32 performance. It also…
Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis Talk About The Abundant Future
Peter Diamandis told Elon Musk that healthy, longevity will be possible very soon. Elon Musk did agree that extreme longevity should be a very solvable engineering problem. Elon Musk again…
Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked
Enlarge Google-owned security firm Mandiant spent several hours trying to regain control of its account on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday after an unknown scammer hijacked it and…
LG just made the fastest OLED gaming display yet
Image: LG LG Display, a manufacturer that makes and sells displays to other companies, is showing off a new OLED display that could soon appear in high-end gaming monitors. At…
ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids’ medical cases with 83% error rate
Enlarge / Dr. Greg House has a better rate of accurately diagnosing patients than ChatGPT. (credit: Getty | Alan Zenuk/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversa) ChatGPT is still no House, MD. While the…
Forget the proverbial wisdom: Opposites don’t really attract, study finds
What draws us to choose romantic partners? A sweeping new meta-analysis suggests we gravitate toward certain shared traits. (credit: Muramasa) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story…
Millions still haven’t patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Roughly 11 million Internet-exposed servers remain susceptible to a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers with a foothold inside affected networks. Once they’re in, attackers compromise…
SpaceX charged with illegally firing workers behind anti-Musk open letter
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks with members of the media at the AI Safety Summit on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (credit: Getty Images | Leon Neal ) SpaceX…