Train derailments get more headlines, but truck crashes involving hazardous chemicals are more frequent and deadly in US
Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in Ohio and caught fire, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed on a major highway outside Tucson, Arizona, killing the driver and releasing toxic chemicals into the air......»»
Deadpool & Wolverine: Ryan Reynolds on those Taylor Swift cameo rumors
Is Taylor Swift going to appear in Deadpool & Wolverine? Ryan Reynolds is finally addressing those rumors involving the All Too Well singer......»»
Apple keeps pushing AI industry forward with more open-source models
Apple's Apple Intelligence research team have released two new small but high-performing language models used to train AI generators.Apple's ability to create incredibly compact yet powerful AI models is unequaled in the industry.The Machine Learning.....»»
Flash floods across China kill at least 20, dozens missing
Flash floods in northern and southwest China have killed at least 20 people and left dozens missing, state media said Saturday, after a week of deadly downpours across the country......»»
Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes should be considered a new factor of global change, researchers say
Human-caused global change is a complex phenomenon comprising many factors such as climate change, environmental contamination with chemicals, microplastics, light pollution, and invasive plants. One of the main tasks of global change biology is to i.....»»
How nature-based solutions can promote effective flood management
This week, large areas of Ontario experienced severe flooding that caused widespread power outages, water damages and disruption. Severe rainfall events are not new, but they are becoming more frequent and costly due to human-caused climate change......»»
How published images of a "happy couple" can hurt victims of domestic abuse
According to the UK's Femicide Census, between 124 and 168 women have been killed by men in the country every year for the past 15 years. Most of these have been by current or former partners. These stories are, sadly, frequent and do not always make.....»»
Gold co-catalyst improves photocatalytic degradation of micropollutants, finds study
To remove micropollutants such as pesticides and trace chemicals from the environment, you need something equally small and cunning. One potential method is photocatalysis, which uses semiconducting nanomaterials powered by sunlight to adsorb toxic c.....»»
Google Maps adding incident reports on Apple CarPlay, but still not on Android Auto
Google Maps, like Waze, supports user-based reports of incidents such as crashes, road conditions, and police speed traps, and support for that functionality is finally showing up on CarPlay. more….....»»
iOS 18 public beta, ‘new’ HomePod, Apple Intelligence data controversy
Benjamin and Chance give their thoughts on their favorite iOS 18 features, the ongoing debate about the redesigned Photos app, and more changes, as the OS hits public beta. There’s also been some focus on the data used to train Apple Intelligence,.....»»
Is your Intel CPU crashing? Here’s how to RMA an Intel CPU
If you're experiencing crashes, instability, or poor performance, you should consider getting your processor replaced. Here is how to RMA an Intel CPU......»»
Apple denies reports that its AI was trained on YouTube videos
According to a new report from Proof News, Apple has been using a dataset containing the subtitles of 173,536 YouTube videos to train its AI......»»
The best movies on Hulu right now (July 2024)
The best movies on Hulu include Ford v Ferrari, Courage Under Fire, The Cable Guy, Get Out, The First Omen, Bullet Train, Slums of Beverly Hills, and more......»»
Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
Almost 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger wrote letters describing the shaking ground as Vesuvius erupted. Now, a collaborative study led by researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Pompeii Archaeological Park ha.....»»
Apple says its OpenELM model doesn’t power Apple Intelligence amid YouTube controversy
Earlier this week, an investigation detailed that Apple and other tech giants had used YouTube subtitles to train their AI models. This included over 170,000 videos from the likes of MKBHD, Mr. Beast, and more. Apple then used this dataset to train i.....»»
Apple Intelligence wasn"t trained on stolen YouTube videos
Apple has refuted using unethically obtained data to train Apple Intelligence — but it has acknowledged its use for another project.Apple IntelligenceOn Tuesday, it was learned that an AI research lab called EleutherAI had harvested subtitles from.....»»
This new free tool lets you easily train AI models on your own
Gigabyte's AI TOP software offers a comprehensive solution for local AI model fine-tuning......»»
Microbes found to destroy certain "forever chemicals" by cleaving stubborn fluorine-to-carbon bonds
A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered specific bacterial species that can destroy certain kinds of "forever chemicals," a step further toward low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water sources......»»
Why Connecticut is a model for reducing racial disparities in traffic stops—and why other states haven"t succeeded
More than 20 million drivers are stopped by police every year in the U.S. Although traffic stops are relatively routine, they can also turn deadly, particularly for minority drivers. It's why some states have started to more closely examine racial di.....»»
The cost of eating healthy: NZ fruit and veg prices are going up way faster than processed food
The rising price of food has been making headlines for the past decade. But prices have not been rising consistently across all food groups—and this has major health implications for New Zealanders......»»
Chemists develop modular approach for creating important class of pharmaceutical compounds
Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a modular approach to create 1,2-arylheteroaryl ethanes, a class of compounds important for drug discovery and pharmaceutical development, using fundamental feedstock chemicals suc.....»»