Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing since April at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2, which was announced at Google I/O in May of this year. PaLM 2 … Read more
Overnight, users on Twitter started reporting that the older and much better version of TweetDeck has returned, along with the free API access that enabled third-party Twitter clients. TweetDeck was shut down last week when Twitter abruptly put up a rate-restricting paywall, killing the outdated APIs that allowed the old version of the feature to … Read more
A former Niantic employee filed a lawsuit against the AR gaming company on Friday alleging it devalued the work of female employees and women of color and denied equal pay to female employees and women of color. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, accuses Niantic of establishing a “boys’ club”. The employee was laid … Read more
Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to commit to using Tesla’s electric vehicle charging connectors for its vehicles, bringing Elon Musk’s company one step closer to total electric vehicle charging dominance. From 2024, the German automaker will offer adapters to its customers so they can access Tesla Supercharger stations, which use the company’s North American Charging … Read more
Many communities on Reddit have used the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) designation in some form to protest Reddit’s new API pricing, which forced apps like Apollo and rif is fun to be shut down from Reddit, as well as a recent pattern by behaviour towards its unpaid volunteer moderators whom they consider ‘threatening’. Subreddits, … Read more
According to Wojciechowska, the upcoming device could feature a 50MP Sony IMX890 main camera sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) and in-sensor zoom. That’s the same primary sensor used by the OnePlus 11, which my colleague Allison Johnson mentioned in her review as one of the device’s positives. However, it’s not clear how much this … Read more
Tesla has had a string of EV charging victories in recent weeks, with Ford, GM, Volvo, North Starand Rivian are all announcing plans to use the company’s charging connectors for their vehicles. But there are still some notable holdouts – though that could change dramatically in the coming days. Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest … Read more
Ask: Wii U launched about six years after Wii and Super Famicom launched about seven years after Famicom. Nintendo Switch has entered its seventh year and I understand it has entered its final phase, so can you tell us about specific measures for the transition to the next generation gaming system? Answer: In terms of … Read more
It’s been quite an eventful summer for sci-fi fans already. Last week saw the finale of Apple’s post-apocalyptic series Silo, Strange new worlds season 2 likes Star Trek runs through August, and Disney Plus is still in the middle of it Secret invasion, his alien conspiracy from the MCU. Oh, and there’s the return of … Read more
To join Mozilla.Social, Mozilla’s new Mastodon instance, it is not allowed to harass other users. You also may not use derogatory language about gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, age, ability, or other “physical, social, or cultural characteristics or classifications.” You should also not spread disinformation and disinformation. Or imitate someone. Some of these are normal … Read more