Science & Technology

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Wednesday, October 30 (game #241)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great…

Grok gets glasses to see what you’re talking about

X (formerly Twitter) Premium subscribers can now ask the Grok AI assistant to describe images, not just make them. The…

China Mobile unveils 6G baseband prototype system for Sub7GHz frequency band — advanced capabilities should set the stage for future wireless communication technologies

Having helped pioneered the global rollout of 5G networks with extensive infrastructure investments and technological breakthroughs that enabled the rapid…

Google’s AI Overviews are now available to help a billion people avoid reading full articles

Google is bringing its AI Overviews feature to more than 100 countries around the world, a massive expansion after initially…

Google Chrome cookie encryption system can be easily bypassed, experts warn

The cookie encryption system that Google introduced to the Chrome browser a few months ago can easily be bypassed, experts…

Vast ancient Mayan city is found in a Mexican jungle — by accident

A research team then went on to discover a huge ancient city that they named “Valeriana” after a nearby freshwater…

“How do these ‘snort your coffee’ numbers arise?”: Expert questions the validity of Zettascale and Exascale-class AI supercomputers, and presents a simple compelling car analogy to explain not all FLOPs are the same

A leading expert has raised critical questions about the validity of claims surrounding “Zettascale” and “Exascale-class” AI supercomputers. In an…

Bitwarden clarifies open source commitment amid user concerns

Bitwarden has sought to calm user backlash in the wake of source code changes that had raised concerns among users.…

Salesforce unveils its Agentforce future of AI to the world

Salesforce has made its Agentforce platform open in general availability, bringing what the company says is the next generation of…

Midjourney has a new challenger for the best AI image generator but nobody has heard of it before

Midjourney has a new challenger for the title of best AI image generator, and it’s a model nobody has heard…