Today at 02:38 Moscow time, the Chinese automatic interplanetary station “Chang’e-6” successfully launched from the Moon into a selenocentric orbit. On board the probe are rare samples of lunar soil collected from the far side of the satellite. If the remaining stages of the space expedition proceed as smoothly, the valuable cargo will arrive on…
Scientists at the pharmaceutical company Moderna have developed the first mRNA vaccine targeting both influenza and coronavirus. This combined vaccine successfully completed Phase 3 clinical trials and is awaiting approval from the US regulator FDA. According to Nature, the combined vaccine has shown higher efficacy compared to monovalent vaccines targeting only one virus. mRNA technology…
OpenAI plans to release a tool called Media Manager in 2025, which will allow authors and content owners to control how their works are used in training AI generative models. This move is a response to criticism OpenAI has faced for collecting publicly available internet data to train its models. In particular, several major American…
With iOS 17.5, Apple introduces the new “Repair Status” feature, offering a more convenient solution for iPhone warranty and repair processes. This feature allows users to send their iPhones for repair without needing to disable “Find My” and Activation Lock, ensuring device safety and simplifying the repair process. When bringing an iOS device to an…
Google DeepMind specialists have introduced a relatively small model with 11 billion parameters. After reviewing 200,000 hours of videos of people playing two-dimensional platform video games, it deduced the rules of the game and the physical laws of the flat world, despite the recordings lacking information on which buttons were pressed by the players. But…
The second part of “Wonka” featuring Timothy Chalamet is set to premiere in theaters on December 17, 2027. The news was reported by the portal World of Reel, citing their sources. While there is no official confirmation yet, indications point to this based on an update in Warner Bros.’ release schedule. In a recent announcement,…
“OpenAI President Greg Brockman has shared on his account X the first publicly available image generated using the company’s new model GPT-4o. The image depicts a person writing on a board about ‘cross-modal transfer.’ The illustration appears realistic, showcasing the accuracy of text generation and significantly surpassing the quality of DALL-E 3. However, the image…
Tested by the YouTube channel ETA PRIME, the ORION1 Pro was paired with the Radeon 7600M XT graphics card. At the core of the ORION1 Pro lies an 8-core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor with a clock speed of up to 5.1 GHz and integrated Radeon 780M graphics. The maximum DDR5-5600 memory capacity is…
Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s head, Hermen Hulst, confirmed that the company will continue releasing its games on PC, maintaining its current release strategy. According to Hulst, Sony aims to expand the PlayStation brand beyond its own devices while still prioritizing PS5 sales. The strategy is designed to generate additional revenue from PC game sales and…
AstraZeneca has announced a global recall of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed jointly with the University of Oxford, after confirming the potential occurrence of a rare side effect – thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS) – in legal documents. While the mechanism of the disease remains unknown, AstraZeneca acknowledged in its statement that the vaccine may, in rare…
