Viewing figures in May show streaming eclipsed TV for the first time The news comes as Netflix signs a broadcast deal with France’s TF1 Netflix will show traditional TV channels from next year Traditional TV just hit a new low – for the first time in history, streaming services had a bigger audience than broadcast…
As traditional media shrinks, storm streamers are growing; Schuster recently hired his first full-time employee—Reilly Dibble, who used to work for Hall. Unlike a traditional broadcast, YouTube allows Schuster to go live before there’s a tornado warning, so he can warn viewers if a storm is likely to produce a tornado. When Hurricane Milton hit…
Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability to engage in seemingly meaningful conversation. But, for decades, ELIZA was considered lost because its creator – Joseph Weizenbaum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology –…
An artist’s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock A fragment of an out-of-control SpaceX Starlink satellite smashed into a farm in Canada last year, New Scientist can reveal – raising questions about the risks of de-orbiting space junk. “That’ll punch a hole in whatever it lands on, including your head,” says Samantha…
CNN — An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer’s or those who were in the early phases of the disease, the manufacturer said Monday. Gantenerumab is part of a class of injected drugs that are designed to remove sticky protein pieces called beta amyloid from the…
Meta has taken legal action against a company which ran ads on its platforms promoting so-called “nudify” apps, which typically using artificial intelligence (AI) to create fake nude images of people without their consent. It has sued the firm behind CrushAI apps to stop it posting ads altogether, following a cat-and-mouse battle to remove them…
Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent BBC Landfill sites can be used for biodegradable municipal waste in Scotland until 31st December Up to 100 truckloads of Scotland’s waste each day will be moved to England once a landfill ban comes in at the end of the year, the BBC’s Disclosure has been told. The Scottish…
Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Noaa/Reuters Hurricane Milton, in October 2024, was one of the Atlantic’s strongest recorded storms The coming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be busier than usual, US science agency NOAA has warned, just as cuts to American research are raising fears about the ability to track and prepare for…
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador under a wartime law. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came…
QPUs may run AI inference faster and cheaper than conventional hardware ever could Hybrid nodes combining CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and diamond QPUs could change how we build quantum software From defense to finance, Quantum Brilliance is betting on diamond chips to drive adoption Diamonds have emerged as a critical material in the development of quantum…
