Month: March 2025
Lyft’s robotaxis will launch in Atlanta this summer
Lyft will let users in Atlanta catch robotaxi rides starting this summer, as reported by NBC News. “Atlanta riders will have the opportunity to be matched with a fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans equipped with May Mobility’s autonomous technology, a deployment that Lyft and May Mobility aim to scale…
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Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again
Congress’ least favorite law is once against facing an existential challenge by bipartisan opponents. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, are planning to reintroduce a bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years. Repealing the bill,…
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Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra workstation can run Deepseek R1 671B AI model entirely in memory using less than 200W, reviewer finds
DeepSeek R1’s 671 billion parameters run smoothly on the M3 Ultra’s unified memory Apple’s Mac Studio proves AI workloads don’t require expensive, power-hungry GPU clusters M3 Ultra consumes under 200W, far less than traditional multi-GPU AI setups Apple’s Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra chip has demonstrated a capability that…
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Severance season two review: Even before the finale, innie rights and humanity made for a stronger show
If you think about it, Severance's "innies" — the people trapped in an endless cycle of office work — should genuinely hate their "outies" — their other halves who exist everywhere else. While outies are free to live a seemingly carefree existence, unburdened by the labor, boredom and indignities of…
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Drama over quantum computing’s future heats up
On March 18th, Chetan Nayak, a physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum team, presented new data on the company’s quantum computing chip at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. It was meant to calm a raging debate among physicists, but researchers remain skeptical of the results. “I never…
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Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor
The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ocean made possible thanks to new satellite technology. The face of the moon has been…
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