Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013... Read more

Jupiter is a looker. The gas giant planet shows out with swirling clouds, crazy storms and bands of color, but most of our views of it are flat. A team of scientists wanted to know what Jupiter’s wild clouds would look like with a sense of depth, so they... Read more

In 2020, California voters approved Proposition 22, a law that app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash said would improve worker conditions while keeping rides and deliveries cheap and abundant for consumers. But a report published today suggests that rideshare drivers in the state have instead seen their effective... Read more

In the very, very old days, TV was simple. There were three channels, you sat on your couch, and you watched whatever they showed you. That’s all different now, and much more complicated. Also more complicated: Figuring out which media or tech conglomerate owns the rights to the shows... Read more

Acer had one of the best Chromebooks available in 2021 with the Spin 713, and now it’s repeated that success with the Chromebook Spin 714. The premium two-in-one doesn’t stray far from its predecessor in terms of what it offers, but Acer did make some changes to keep it competitive.... Read more

Four thousand is a reference to the 40 acres Black people were supposed to receive as reparations and start-up seed investment after the US Civil War, reparations that were never fully distributed. Kanye seems to be saying, we never got our 40 acres, but on my own, I amassed... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Nvidia has invested $15 million in PassiveLogic, a pioneer in autonomous building control systems. The investment will help drive integration between PassiveLogic’s tools and Nvidia’s Omniverse platform for... Read more

Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications. Nvidia At today’s GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production and that tech partners such as Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Atos, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Supermicro will... Read more

A pod of around 230 pilot whales has stranded off the western coast of Tasmania, Australia. A statement provided by the Tasmanian Department of Natural Resources and Environment revealed the extent of the stranding, suggesting “about half of the animals are alive.” A post on the Parks and Wildlife... Read more

Burmese influencer Han Nyein Oo rose to prominence in 2020, posting memes and gossip about Burmese celebrities on Facebook to an audience that grew to several hundred thousand people in Myanmar by early 2021. Then, after the country’s military seized power that February, he lurched rightwards, becoming a full-blooded... Read more