NBC Chicago reports that the house at 671 North Lincoln Avenue, famous from the movie “Home Alone,” is up for sale for the first time since 2012. Built in 1921, the house has only had two owners. The first sale occurred in the 1980s before the movie was released, and the second was in 2012…
According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, NVIDIA is possibly gearing up to unveil its RTX 5090 graphics card at Computex 2024, as indicated by two sources. The upcoming NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card will be based on the new Blackwell graphics processor architecture. It will be the company’s most powerful gaming product to date, with…
Despite its nearly 6-year-old release, the iPhone XS remains a sought-after product for many. The phone has an acceptable price, it still boasts highlights in design, the iOS operating system, and impressive video recording capabilities. However, purchasing the iPhone XS also entails four significant trade-offs. Trade-off №1: 64GB Storage For basic users, the 64GB storage…
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…
Microsoft has unveiled a generative AI model based on GPT-4, specifically developed for US intelligence agencies, which operates without internet connection. This marks Microsoft’s first deployment of a large language model in a secure environment. It allows intelligence services to analyze top-secret information without the risk of internet leaks and securely communicate with a chatbot…
Samsung has unveiled its first mobile processor designed using an advanced 3nm process with Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistors (GAAFET), with nearly all design and optimization done using artificial intelligence-based electronic design automation (EDA) tools from Synopsys. The new System-on-Chip (SoC) was created using the Synopsys.ai software package, which includes three key tools. The first, DSO.ai, handles…
Leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer AutoFlight has accomplished the world’s first autonomous inter-city flight with an electric air taxi. The Prosperity eVTOL traversed 50 km between the cities of Shenzhen and Zhuhai across the Pearl River Delta in just 20 minutes, a journey that would take approximately three hours by land….
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…
Scientists have presented the results of the first phase of clinical trials involving 14 people with inherited blindness, specifically Leber congenital amaurosis. Significant improvements in vision parameters have been observed with the application of CRISPR gene editing technology. Leber congenital amaurosis is characterized by a mutation in the CEP290 gene, resulting in severe vision loss,…
Take-Two Interactive reported in their fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 results that Red Dead Redemption 2 sold an additional three million copies in the last three months. This means that more than 64 million copies of Red Dead Redemption 2 have been sold worldwide, up from 61 million previously. Set in a Western-themed environment,…
