Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2013, scientists unveiled the first lab-grown burger at a cost of $330,000. By 2023, the FDA approved cultivated chicken for sale. The price had dropped to around $10-$30 per pound, and over $3 billion in investo… Continue reading Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)
The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine and has agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna announced on Wednesday. From a report: Last week, the agency rejected Moderna’s application for review of a n… Continue reading FDA Reverses Decision and Agrees To Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country’s flagship AI summit after a staff member was caught presenting a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, two gove… Continue reading India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own
A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based “Spencer Christy, indi… Continue reading US Lawyers Fire Up Privacy Class Action Accusing Lenovo of Bulk Data Transfers To China
Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe’s largest data centers from being built on 85 acres of rolling farmland that separates their community from the neighboring village of South Mi… Continue reading The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” from AI, and believes most work involving “sitting down at a computer” — accounting, legal, marketing, project management — will be fully autom… Continue reading Microsoft’s AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months
Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West… Continue reading Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years
Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing indie-horror video games on camera, has pulled off something that most independent filmmakers neve… Continue reading A YouTuber’s $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney’s $40M Thriller at the Box Office
An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users… Continue reading Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud
Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, capable of sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random read performance of 5.5 million IOPS — roughly double the throughput of the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives avai… Continue reading Micron’s PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s