Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”
As actors strike, Hollywood reportedly seeks to own actors' digital doubles. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, members of the SAG-AFTRA actors' union (and its president, actor Fran Drescher) announced their dec.....»»
Attackers can turn AWS SSM agents into remote access trojans
Mitiga researchers have documented a new post-exploitation technique attackers can use to gain persistent remote access to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (virtual servers), as well as to non-EC2 machines (e.g., on-premises enterprise serve.....»»
Apple Pencil problem occurring with replacement iPad screens
iPad owners who had the screen replaced by a third-party service center are reporting that an Apple Pencil problem occurs afterward – and it appears to be a deliberate move on Apple’s part. To be clear, the issue isn’t limited to aftermarket.....»»
How you can future-proof your career in the era of AI
Ever since the industrial revolution, people have feared that technology would take away their jobs. While some jobs and tasks have indeed been replaced by machines, others have emerged. The success of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intellig.....»»
Shape-Shifting, Self-Healing Machines Are Among Us
Electronics that can bend, stretch and repair themselves could potentially work in applications ranging from tougher robots to smart clothes.....»»
Earlier and earlier high-Arctic spring replaced by "extreme year-to-year variation"
About 15 years ago, researchers reported that the timing of spring in high-Arctic Greenland had advanced at some of the fastest rates of change ever seen anywhere in the world. But, according to new evidence reported in the journal Current Biology on.....»»
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates to fix bugs and shore up security
Previous-generation macOS and iOS versions get new security updates, too. Enlarge / Macs running macOS Ventura. (credit: Apple) Apple's iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 operating systems are all due to be replaced with ne.....»»
Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him
X logo looks like a Unicode symbol and the lower-case x from a Monotype font. Enlarge / Twitter's new X logo. (credit: Twitter) Twitter has replaced its longtime bird logo with an X in order to fit owner Elon Musk's pref.....»»
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay. Enlarge / A Z16 Mainframe. Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to proc.....»»
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X
In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has replaced Twitter's iconic bird logo with X......»»
Elon Musk: Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird
Elon Musk says "tweets" will be replaced by "x's" in the billionaire owner's latest change to the firm......»»
Apple Store EasyPay Online Ordering brings shipment options to retail sales
Apple Store employees will be able to complete a sale for products out of stock at a location, by allowing for EasyPay point-of-sale machines to be used for home delivery orders.A problem with visiting any store is that if a product is out of stock,.....»»
Finding game-changing superconductors with machine learning tools
Superconductors—found in MRI machines, nuclear fusion reactors and magnetic-levitation trains—work by conducting electricity with no resistance at temperatures near absolute zero, or -459.67°F......»»
VMware Fusion adding 3D acceleration for Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs
VMware Fusion is a popular virtualization software that lets users create and run virtual machines on Mac computers. The company behind the software recently announced a major update coming to VMWare Fusion, which will enable full 3D acceleration fo.....»»
Unveiling synchronization preferences of quantum thermal machines
Researchers from the Center of Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems within the Institute for Basic Science (PCS-IBS) made an important discovery that describes the relationship between synchronization and thermodynamics in quantum systems......»»
Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”
As actors strike, Hollywood reportedly seeks to own actors' digital doubles. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, members of the SAG-AFTRA actors' union (and its president, actor Fran Drescher) announced their dec.....»»
Use Your 3D Printer To Make Gorgeous 2D Art With HueForge
3D printing is always surprising us with new and inventive ways of using the somewhat simple machines. In this case, there is a new software called HueForge that creates beautifully rendered 2D art work using very limited colors and materials allowe.....»»
Light-activated molecular machines get cells "talking"
One of the main ways cells "talk" to each other to coordinate essential biological activities such as muscle contraction, hormone release, neuronal firing, digestion and immune activation is through calcium signaling......»»
Mark Zuckerberg concealed his kids" faces on Instagram. Should you?
When Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo on Instagram of his family on July 4, two things stuck out: the billionaire CEO wore a striped souvenir cowboy hat, and the faces of his children were replaced with happy face emojis......»»
A quantum Szilard engine that can achieve two-level system hyperpolarization
Quantum computers, machines that perform computations exploiting quantum mechanical phenomena, could eventually outperform classical computers on some tasks, by utilizing quantum mechanical resources such as state superpositions and entanglement. How.....»»
How Do CPAP Machines Treat Sleep Apnea?
President Joe Biden has been using a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea, according to White House officials. What does that mean?.....»»