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It may be some time before we find out. OpenAI’s announcement of Sora today is a tech tease, and the company says it has no current plans to release it to the public. Instead, OpenAI will today begin sharing the model with third-party safety testers for the first time. In particular, the firm is …
An artist’s impression of a hollow nanowire emitting doughnut-shaped laser light Masato Takiguchi et al./ACS Photonics/American Chemical Society 2024 Tiny, hollow wires can produce doughnut-shaped laser light that could be used to levitate small objects or transmit information. Conventional lasers typically make beams that appear as a single, small point of light when they …
MonsterLabo has launched an updated version of its signature case, The Beast. bit-tech reported on a quite recent iteration of The Beast, back in March, when it was kitted out with an AMD Ryzen 3800X and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and demonstrated running the demanding Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. With passive cooling only, …
Just a couple of days after NASA announced it was delaying the launch of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by a week, the agency has come back to say it’s pushing back the earliest possible launch date by another two days. It means that the Crew-8 mission will now launch …
Something to look forward to: Recent leaks and rumors about Microsoft’s roadmap for Xbox games have sparked heated speculation, prompting the company to hasten its plans to discuss its evolving strategy. On Thursday, Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to Xbox hardware and also shared its intention to expand its gaming business beyond just the console. …
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is increasing and changing industries and society. As such, Governments worldwide are finding ways to use the great potential of AI while also controlling the risks. Notably, Japan is a leading country in technology. According to a Reuters report, the Japanese government, led by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), …
Getty Images A core developer of Nginx, currently the world’s most popular web server, has quit the project, stating that he no longer sees it as “a free and open source project… for the public good.” His fork, freenginx, is “going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities,” writes Maxim Dounin, and …
We’ve long considered Superloop’s gigabit internet to be the best NBN 1000 plan you can get, but the provider now matches Telstra for speed, which makes it an absolute no-brainer for anyone wanting one of the fastest NBN plans. Superloop is now promising a typical evening speed of 700Mbps on its NBN 1000 plan, …
“I started thinking that I could build an AI therapist using the ChatGPT API and tweak it to meet the specifications for a therapist,” she said. “It increases accessibility to therapy by providing free and confidential therapy, an AI rather than a human, and removing stigma around getting help for people who don’t want …
SAN FRANCISCO — The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, called Sora, isn’t the first of its kind. Google, Meta and the startup Runway ML are among the …