The first RTX 4070 Ti preorders confirm our worst fears
We've just received our first reports of an Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti graphics card being found for sale. Unfortunately, it's not great news......»»
Researchers: COVID-19 devastated teacher morale—and it hasn"t recovered
Kansas faces the worst teacher shortfall in its history. The 4,000 teaching vacancies Florida faces as the new school year approaches "is more than the population of teachers in 19 of Florida's smallest counties combined," the state's teachers union.....»»
20 years later, this superhero movie is still the worst thing the genre has ever done
Twenty years ago, the worst comic book movie adaptation ever made was released. Digital Trends looks back to see if the 2004 movie is still as bad as they say......»»
The worst gadget of 2024 has a killer camera feature
The Rabbit R1 isn't very good, but beneath the mediocre camera hides a really cool feature that just might make it worth buying after all......»»
What is CrowdStrike? How the worst tech outage of all time really happened
Who's the cybersecurity technology company behind the largest tech outage in history? Here is everything you need to know about the company......»»
Prime Day is over, but this awesome Alienware gaming PC deal is still live
The Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card and 32GB of RAM is still down to $1,700 from Dell, despite Prime Day's end......»»
This GeForce RTX 4070 Super GPU has a sweet Prime Day deal
It's time to save big on a new GPU! Take home the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 for just $590 as part of Amazon's Prime Day sales event......»»
Apple taps infamous Taboola as new ad seller for Apple News and Stocks
Apple has struck a deal with a new partner for ad sales in its Apple News and Stocks apps. Unfortunately, that ad seller—Taboola—carries a reputation for employing some of the worst ads you’ve ever seen. more….....»»
DNA tests confirm shark that bit California swimmer was juvenile white shark
A shark that bit a swimmer in Del Mar last month, leaving the man hospitalized with significant wounds, was a juvenile white shark, likely around 9 feet long and 6 to 8 years old......»»
Greece fears water shortages after warmest winter ever
After Greece's warmest winter and earliest heat wave on record, authorities are sounding the alarm over the risk of dire water shortages in the heat of the Mediterranean summer......»»
“Superhuman” Go AIs still have trouble defending against these simple exploits
Plugging up "worst-case" algorithmic holes is proving more difficult than expected. Enlarge / Man vs. machine in a sea of stones. (credit: Getty Images) In the ancient Chinese game of Go, state-of-the-art artificial inte.....»»
Apple trade-in values cut by $10-20 for iPhone; up to $90 for Mac
Apple trade-in values in the US have been reduced for some devices, but most of the cuts are relatively small. For iPhone 14 models, for example, the reduction is either $10 or $20. The biggest cuts are for Macs, where the worst case is a $90 redu.....»»
Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirm
Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu.....»»
Brazil needs a new approach to measure climate migration
Devastating floods led to more than 175 deaths and 423,000 people displaced in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in May. It was the state's worst natural catastrophe in almost a century, but Brazil is no stranger to mass population mo.....»»
Detroit"s air quality "very unhealthy" following Fourth of July fireworks
Detroit's air quality ranked among the worst in the U.S. on Friday morning following the Fourth of July holiday fireworks use, posing "very unhealthy" conditions for children, seniors and people with certain health conditions who went outdoors......»»
I tried using a phone with a 2MP camera. These were the 5 worst things about it
I set myself a task: Use a 2MP phone camera in 2024. I quickly discovered just how bad things were with phone cameras 20 years ago......»»
US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine
As fears of a pandemic mount, the biotech company’s mRNA vaccine trial is set to release Phase 1/2 results later this year, with a larger Phase 3 trial expected to begin in 2025......»»
India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves
Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year—its worst heat wave in over a decade—left hundreds dead or ill. But the official number of deaths listed in government reports barely.....»»
From stars to oceans: The impact of penetrative turbulence on climate science
Turbulence is an area of fluid dynamics that has been known about and researched for over a century. Most of us are broadly aware of it as a concept from our travels in the air, wherein it can at best be an inconvenience but at worst a frightening an.....»»
The 5 worst movies of 2024 so far, ranked
The year is only half over, but there have been some really terrible flicks. These are are the five worst movies on 2024 so far......»»
Siri is about to massive AI overhaul
Siri is expected to see a massive upgrade with iOS 18 where the use of AI will allow it to control individual app functions. The post Siri is about to get a massive AI overhaul appeared first on Phandroid. Siri has to be one of the worst v.....»»