Month: November 2024
Perplexity debuts an AI-powered election information hub
AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it’s a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced on Friday. The hub offers things like AI-generated answers to voting questions and summaries of candidates, and on November 5th,…
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You can now search through your chat history with ChatGPT on the web
ChatGPT conversations can accumulate quickly if you regularly converse with the AI chatbot. Finding a particular bit of discussion with ChatGPT has been difficult, though, even with well-labeled thread names. OpenAI has released a new search feature for ChatGPT to address that issue. The feature lets you sift through past…
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Microsoft is building wooden data centers in its latest push to cut emissions – could this be the future of AI power?
Steel and concrete, the traditional materials used in data center construction, are major carbon emittersm but in a move toward sustainability, Microsoft is testing fire-resistant cross-laminated timber (CLT) in its first wood-based data centers near a northern Virginia suburb. The company says this project is part of an “all-hands-on-deck task”…
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Kill two birds with one stone — recycled polystyrene material that looks like bird feather could be used to generate electricity from waste energy in air
Over 27 million tons of single-use polystyrene packaging are produced worldwide each year, yet only 12% is recycled – most ends up in landfills after its initial use. Researchers at RMIT University and Riga Technical University have developed an innovative way to generate electricity using waste polystyrene, addressing both energy…
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Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or pressing the mushroom-shaped blob on top of the Alarmo to move and pressing the…
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Nvidia’s DLSS is an obvious choice over AMD’s FSR, but this shouldn’t dictate your GPU buying decisions
It goes without saying that Nvidia is the dominant force within the GPU market. The RTX 4000 series has taken the market by storm, with its flagship graphics card (the RTX 4090) providing the best performance on gaming PCs to date. With the long-awaited RTX 5000 series announcement now on…
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