You can’t scroll through X (formerly known as Twitter) without coming across funny and interesting videos. Although the official X app doesn’t let you download videos, there are some straightforward ways to get the job done, whether you’re on Android, iOS, Mac, or PC.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Download Videos From X/Twitter
Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse. In a new report published in the journal BioScience, researchers analyze what they describe as 35 planetary vital signs used to track climate change. They found that 20 of…
Source: Gizmodo – Headed to ‘Potential Collapse’: Alarm Bells Are Blaring in New Climate Report
Super Mario Wonder launched to an impressive-if-unsurprising 93 on Metacritic. It’s another Cape Feather in the Cappy for Miyamoto and company, who reminded the world once again that our favorite Italian plumber is often imitated but never duplicated (Sorry, Sonic). This latest Super Mario outing ratchets up the…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Mario Wonder Badges And Where To Find Them
Many home-automation devices come with their own mobile app or cloud
service. However, using multiple apps or services is
inconvenient, so it’s (purposely) tempting to only buy devices from the same
vendor, but this can lead to lock-in. One project that lets
users manage home-automation devices from various vendors without lock-in
is Home Assistant. Over its
ten-year existence, it has developed into a user-friendly home-automation
platform that caters to both technically inclined and less tech-savvy
people.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Home Assistant: ten years of privacy-focused home automation
Version
119.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. The list of changes
includes improvements to Firefox
View, some PDF-editing improvements, better cookie protection, encrypted
client hello support, and more.
Source: LWN.net – Firefox 119.0 released
Demand for climate-warming fuels like coal, oil and natural gas will likely peak before 2030, evidence of the accelerating global shift to energy that doesn’t emit greenhouse gasses, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s World Energy Outlook. From a report: “The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable. It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’ — and the sooner the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, IEA executive director, in a statement. The agency represents countries that make up more than 80% of global energy consumption. The annual IEA report estimates that in 2030 there will be 10 times as many electric vehicles on the road worldwide and 50% of the cars sold in the United States will be electric. The agency says solar panels installed across the globe will generate more electricity at the end of the decade than the U.S. power system produces now. And the report projects that renewable energy will supply 50% of the world’s electricity needs, up from about 30% now.
But the report warns the pace of the transition will have to quicken considerably in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and avoid some of the worst case scenarios in a changing climate. The IEA’s outlook lays out a strategy for meeting that goal that includes tripling renewable energy, doubling energy efficiency measures and slashing methane emissions from fossil fuel operations by 75% by 2030. Methane has more than 25 times the climate-warming potential of carbon dioxide, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Climate and anti-fossil fuel groups say the IEA’s methane strategy should be even more aggressive.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Global Shift To Clean Energy Means Fossil Fuel Demand Will Peak Soon, IEA says
Artists are using a new tool to add invisible changes to their art before uploading online. Why? In order to combat having their work scraped into an AI training set. The new method causes the resulting model to “break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.”
Artists are battling to protect their work against being stolen by generative AI, with
Source: Hot Hardware – Artists Are Using Nightshade Data Poisoning Tool In Escalating War With Generative AI
NVIDIA and AMD are being spurred on by Microsoft to develop their own ARM-based CPUs to be used in Windows PCs, according to a report from Reuters. Apple, which is a competitor of all three companies, has seen great success ever since it launched its own custom ARM-based chip, M1, in 2020. Although this move is ostensibly focused on containing
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And AMD Tap Arm To Fab Chips For Windows PCs, Should Intel Worry?
So much gardening advice is based around four-season climates, but a sizable contingent of the United States is only now entering ideal gardening weather. If you live in a desert region, guidelines about how to prepare your garden beds for the colder months probably aren’t helpful, but advisories over what to do with…
Source: LifeHacker – Get Your Desert Landscaping Ready for Winter
Intel announced it is advancing its semiconductor technology facilities at its Gordon Moore Park campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. The chip maker views the expansion as an important step towards regaining process technology leadership by 2025, which has been one of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s main goals when he returned to the company a little over
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Plans Huge Oregon Chip Fab Expansion As Part Of 0B Investment In US Over 5 years
Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month’s Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sweeping environmental initiatives. The company even included a cringey featurette with actor Octavia Spencer talking down to CEO Tim Cook. Europe’s…
Source: Gizmodo – Apple Called Out for ‘Scientifically Inaccurate’ Greenwashing
The furthest human spacecraft from earth—Voyager 1 and 2—are still getting software updates more than 12 billion miles away, which should help keep the probes operational for many years to come. Smartphone companies can learn a thing or two here.
It all started in 2022 when Voyager 1 began sending garbled data back to Earth. Craft functions
Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Sent An Important Software Patch 12 Billion Miles To Its 1977 Voyager Probes
Enlarge / The qubits of the new hardware: an array of individual atoms. (credit: Atom Computing)
Today, a startup called Atom Computing announced that it has been doing internal testing of a 1,180 qubit quantum computer and will be making it available to customers next year. The system represents a major step forward for the company, which had only built one prior system based on neutral atom qubits—a system that operated using only 100 qubits.
The error rate for individual qubit operations is high enough that it won’t be possible to run an algorithm that relies on the full qubit count without it failing due to an error. But it does back up the company’s claims that its technology can scale rapidly and provides a testbed for work on quantum error correction. And, for smaller algorithms, the company says it’ll simply run multiple instances in parallel to boost the chance of returning the right answer.
Atom Computing, as its name implies, has chosen neutral atoms as its qubit of choice (there are other companies that are working with ions). These systems rely on a set of lasers that create a series of locations that are energetically favorable for atoms. Left on their own, atoms will tend to fall into these locations and stay there until a stray gas atom bumps into them and knocks them out.
Read 17 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Source: Ars Technica – Atom Computing is the first to announce a 1,000+ qubit quantum computer
YouTube Music has two new features rolling out, and it should come as no surprise that one of them is all about AI. Instead of looking at a compilation of album covers or uploading your own image, you can now use AI to create custom playlist art right from the YouTube Music app.
Whether or not you’ve ever thought about what’s at the top of your playlist, designing and adding an image is pretty simple. All you need to do is click the playlist’s edit button and then on the existing main image. YouTube Music will then bring you to a range of categories, such as nature, humor and animals. Each one will generate a random set of pictures upon selection, such as a dog in a specific art style, that you can change. Just toggle through the options, and when you find one you like, save it as your playlist’s new cover photo.
YouTube Music’s other update set to roll out is a feature called speed dial that lets you jump right back into recent listens, like specific artists and playlists. The format is very reminiscent of the top of Spotify’s homepage, but YouTube appears to show more options than its competitor.
These features follow other recent attempts by YouTube Music to compete with more established services, such as adding a comments section and timed lyrics to follow along with songs. AI-powered custom playlist art is available now to English language accounts in the United States, with plans to roll out globally in the future, while speed dial will be available in the coming months.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/youtube-music-now-lets-you-generate-your-own-ai-playlist-art-140053565.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – YouTube Music now lets you generate your own AI playlist art
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Joomla on Debian 12. Joomla is an open-source content management system (CMS) that allows users to build and manage websites and web applications.
The post How to Install Joomla on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install Joomla on Debian 12
UK ministers are poised to reject Big Tech calls for greater scope to appeal against decisions made by the country’s antitrust regulator under new digital markets rules, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The government plans to use the new Digital Markets Unit within the regulator, the Competition and Market Authority, to apply extra scrutiny to companies such as Alphabet and Meta Platforms, and to curb their dominance. The division is expected to have powers to fine internet firms in a bid to protect consumers, and it may allow smaller companies to access the data held by bigger ones. It could lead to tech companies compensating media outlets for carrying news stories.
Under existing plans, challenges to DMU rulings would only cover whether the CMA followed the correct procedure when making its decisions. But tech companies have lobbied to be able to appeal decisions on a “full merits” basis that would include examining the regulator’s assumptions and underlying evidence also. Ministers, however, are set to rebuff the demands of the tech companies, because they are concerned the proposals would make it harder for smaller companies to challenge their bigger rivals, according to the people, who asked not to be named because a final decision hasn’t yet been made.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – UK Set To Reject Big Tech Call for Antitrust Appeals Route
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 is getting a year long delay. Get a few more looks at Godzilla Minus One. Halloween comes to the White House in new Chucky season 3 pictures. Plus, what’s coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks’ penultimate episode of the season. Spoilers get!
Source: Gizmodo – Doctor Who Is Already Filming Ncuti Gatwa’s Second Season
Modern smart TVs offer ways to connect to your favorite streaming services, but the results are often disappointing. Not only are the built-in solutions less than ideal out of the box, they quickly become outdated. That’s where a dedicated streaming device comes in handy. You have your choice, too, with devices from…
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Streaming Devices in 2023
Enlarge / Apple last month put its “environmentally friendly” credentials at the center of its biggest annual product launch. (credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Apple faces scrutiny from European environmental and consumer groups over its claims that its latest devices are “carbon neutral,” a term that Brussels proposes to ban in corporate marketing because it is “misleading.”
The iPhone maker last month put its “environmentally friendly” credentials at the center of its biggest annual product launch. It called some Apple Watch models its “first-ever carbon neutral products,” part of a drive to extend the classification across all its devices by the end of the decade.
But the US tech giant’s decision to rely on credits to cancel out the 7-12 kg of greenhouse gas emissions behind each new Watch prompted a sharp reaction from consumer groups in the wake of a long-trailed clampdown by the EU on “greenwashing.”
Read 24 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Source: Ars Technica – Apple’s “carbon neutral” claims are facing increased scrutiny
Android 14 is already available for Pixel phone owners and is rolling out to other handsets as we speak—and while it doesn’t include a plethora of new features, there are some cool upgrades for your handset that are worth making use of. We’ve picked out 5 of our favorites that you should try out as soon as Android 14…
Source: Gizmodo – 5 Cool New Features to Try Out in Android 14
