Health Care Isn’t the Key to a Healthy Population

[ad_1] In the UK, National Health Service waiting lists are at record levels. Last winter, the emergency care system collapsed. NHS doctors and nurses are striking. We have a problem not just... Read more »

A Grid Collapse Would Make a Heat Wave Far Deadlier

[ad_1] Consider this nightmare scenario. For four days now, temperatures have soared past 110 degrees. Those able to stay home are cranking their air-conditioning while officials scramble to move the unhoused into... Read more »

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

[ad_1] “To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat,” says Addison Stark, chief executive and cofounder of the startup. Indeed, heat production from industry may account for around 10% of global carbon dioxide... Read more »

Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites

[ad_1] People are using AI to quickly spin up junk websites in order to capture some of the programmatic advertising money that’s sloshing around online, according to a new report by NewsGuardexclusively... Read more »

Wanna Scratch that Travel Itch? Try YouTube

[ad_1] Whoever shot it was obviously using a gimbal to steady the shot and an external microphone to pick up the snippets and scraps of the city inhabitants’ gossiping, teasing, wooing, joking,... Read more »

The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

[ad_1] Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties, wearing delicately stressed jeans with zippers across the thighs. Mostly... Read more »

Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI

[ad_1] A year ago, The idea of ​​holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched last November, life has started to feel... Read more »

This app is helping workers reclaim millions in lost wages

[ad_1] The tool launched last October with beta testing in New York that focused on the construction industry, a sector identified as particularly rife with abuse, and helped recover $1 million in... Read more »

Google Pixel Fold Review: Expensive and Fun

[ad_1] The software experience is almost like a miniaturized version of the Pixel Tablet I recently reviewed. There’s a taskbar at the bottom of the screen that you can drag up in... Read more »

Achieving a sustainable future for AI

[ad_1] More compute leads to greater electricity consumption, and consequent carbon emissions. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimated that the electricity consumed during the training of... Read more »