Month: March 2023
A tiny solar panel in a cable: How fiber optics is changing the way power is transmitted
Earlier this month, communication specialists HUBER +SUHNER launched a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that powered an active antenna using fiber optics rather than more traditional copper wires, replacing in certain cases, power-over-ethernet (PoE) with power-over-fibre (PoF), for almost a decade. Doing so allows data and power to be transmitted…
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The Battle For AI Supremacy Got Super Intense This Week, Risks Be Damned
No one has been able to shut up about artificial intelligence since OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT onto the world in November. But this week, there was so much AI chatter that even people who work in the field have been struggling to keep up. First, Google announced that it was sprinkling…
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@therapistzach Is Coping With His Accidentally Horrifying TikTok Username
Leezer, 30, a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago who runs his own private practice, created the TikTok less than a month ago to post videos about the kinds of things he focuses on with his clients: self-esteem, body image, anxiety. Then, last week, he got the comment on one…
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The RTX 4080 gets a major upgrade thanks to Asus and Noctua
Asus has partnered with Noctua once again to release a new version of Nvidia’s RTX 4080. According to Asus, following the success of the RTX 3070 and 3080 graphics cards from Noctua, both companies decided to team up for this new product, dubbed the Asus GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition.…
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Zack Snyder teases ‘ridiculous scale’ RPG set in the universe of his new Netflix film
Zack Snyder, known for films like 300 and the four-hour “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, is working on an RPG set in the universe of his forthcoming Netflix sci-fi movie Rebel Moon, he teased in a podcast interview on Sunday. “The one thing that I’m really having a really good…
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Marvel Studios VFX head Victoria Alonso is out
Per The Hollywood Reporter, after 17 years of working at Marvel Studios — originally as executive vice president of visual effects and post-production before going on to become president in the department — Alonso left the company last Friday for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. As a co-producer on a…
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