Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe (arstechnica.com)
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Four Tesla drivers who sued the company over its allegedly deceptive "self-driving" claims will have to go to arbitration instead of pursuing a class action, a judge ruled.
Apple says patches won’t affect performance and that titanium frame isn’t to blame....
Scientists are learning more about “sesquiterpenes" vapors made from trees.
Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in climate predictions....
In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...
This would lead to some very large cost savings if AI could compress video/audio even better than current compression algorithms. Data borders unite!
While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this....
Compared with other countries, the US is again seeing exorbitant prices for a medicine—even one it helped develop....
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
At least four top pharmaceutical companies suing the federal government over a new requirement to negotiate Medicare drug prices have agreed to come to the table for the first round of negotiations—at least for now.