Granting Abigail human freedoms feels right even if she was made in a lab Gremlin/Getty Images Some Body Like MeLucy Lapinska (Gollancz Out 17 April (UK)) While the world grapples with the rights of regular humans versus artificial intelligence companies that want to mine both their data and their creative output, sci-fi is contending with…
Report warns a college degree no longer guarantees skilled work in today’s AI-powered global job economy Remote jobs, once seen as offering freedom, now trap professionals in cycles of digital underemployment Middle-level professionals are taking side gigs to survive while tech roles remain out of reach The global job market is undergoing a profound transformation…
Thunderstorms over Indonesia, seen from the International Space Station NASA Earth Observatory / International Space Station (ISS) An AI weather program running for a single second on a desktop can match the accuracy of traditional forecasts that take hours or days on powerful supercomputers, claim its creators. Weather forecasting has, since the 1950s, relied on…
Smartphones can help children socialise AYO Production/Shutterstock A survey of more than 1500 children suggests that smartphones can be beneficial to their mental and social well-being – unless they start using social media. Justin Martin at the University of South Florida surveyed children between the ages of 11 and 13 in the state to open…
Matrox returns with dual-GPU card built for synchronized multi-display setups A380 Octal supports up to eight 5K screens and high-end audio Quad version offers fewer outputs, less power, for simpler installations One of Nvidia’s earliest rivals, Matrox was well known in the 1990s for its high-quality graphics cards. Although it eventually moved away from the…
Outdated tech stacks are more than annoying; they’re driving top developers out of the industry Developers tie their identity to tech stacks, and they’re quitting when they feel embarrassed by them Modern innovation can’t happen when devs are trapped in outdated frameworks and dead-end systems A growing number of developers are rethinking their careers due…
Apple has withdrawn one of its encryption services from UK customers slandstock / Alamy A former cyber security chief has called the UK government “naive” for demanding that Apple add a backdoor to its software – allowing the UK’s intelligence agencies to snoop on customers’ data – and expecting the request to remain secret. Ciaran…
The ARC-AGI-2 benchmark is designed to be a difficult test for AI models Just_Super/Getty Images The most sophisticated AI models in existence today have scored poorly on a new benchmark designed to measure their progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) – and brute-force computing power won’t be enough to improve, as evaluators are now taking…
Getting an AI to write software for you? That’s vibe coding ronstik/Alamy Want to write software, but haven’t got the first clue where to start? Enter “vibe coding”, a term that has swept the internet to describe the use of AI tools, including large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, to generate computer code even if…
Quantum computers theoretically offer advantages over ordinary machines Quantinuum Quantum computers could soon be able to solve genuinely useful mathematical problems faster than classical computers, claims quantum computing firm Quantinuum. It would be the first example of these exotic machines showing a true advantage over ordinary devices. Such problems relate to a branch of mathematics…
