Новости за 03.04.2023

Jurors are scheduled to be picked this week in the bizarre murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, an Idaho mom accused in 2020 of killing her two kids.

Women make less than similarly educated men in the same jobs. They often go back to college to boost their credentials while also shouldering other expenses.

The 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq provides Western policymakers with an opportunity to restore trust in the rules-based international order. The United Kingdom can take the initiative by increasing its support for public-interest media and its development assistance to lower-income countries.

Sneha Jain recalls how her family struggled to pay rent which led her to try her luck in acting. Sneha started with a few episodic roles. She believes that the tough times have helped her become more mature as a person.

Ryuichi Sakamoto was born and raised in Japan. He rose to prominence as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, the most influential Japanese band in pop-music history. Last week, he died in Japan. But he also claimed not to consider himself Japanese. That reflects the dedication of his life’s work as a composer and performer to […]

Meanwhile, tech leaders ask for an "immediate pause for at least 6 months" on all AI systems.

Vladimir Putin and his allies have resorted to nuclear threats when the chips have been down. A desensitized West could leave room for error on a wide scale.

South Africa’s Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) is preparing to materially increase the number of weekly trains operating on that component of its North East Corridor that transports export commodities through Mozambique’s Maputo port. Once commercial agreements for a so-called ‘borderless’ train service have been finalised with Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), TFR expects to increase the number of weekly trains carrying chrome from 12 to 21, and those carrying magnetite from 17 to 28.

Either Connecticut will become only the second No. 4 seed to ever prevail, joining 1997 Arizona, or San Diego State will ascend to the first No. 5 seed to ...

Chris Urmson, CEO of the autonomous-vehicle startup, says that it has “all the parts in place” to revolutionize trucking, starting next year.

Kendall, Shiv and Roman might team up to crash the Waystar deal

The 2024 race is getting messier.

The most unexpected moment in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves isn't a monster attack or even a deadly betrayal. Instead, it's the appearance of none other than Bradley Cooper — an unexpected shock that made the person sitting behind me in the audience whisper, "the fuck?"

In bringing Dungeons & Dragons to the big screen, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley faced the challenge of paying tribute to a beloved, extremely expansive game. With nearly 50 years' worth of lore, spells, classes, and monsters at their fingertips, how would they know what to include?

TL;DR: As of April 3, you can get the Jamstik® Guitar Trainer while it’s on sale for only $169.99 — that’s 25% off.

TL;DR: As of April 3, you can get a bug zapper — equipped with a light and a fan — for just $31.99 instead of $94. That's a savings of 66%.

TL;DR: As of April 3, a lifetime subscription to the SumizeIt Book Summaries app is on sale for just $59 — that's a savings of 80%.

TL;DR: As of April 3, you can get the WonderCube Pro: All-In-One Mobile Keyring for just $39.95 — that's 42% off the regular sale price of $70.

Wunderman Thompson’s Bas Korsten on his prehistoric lab-meat dish that’s become a pop-culture sensation.

This week: A pooping pigeon, Heinz vs. fake Heinz, and Chris Pratt’s offbeat anti-heritage spots for TravisMathew.

Macworld

An Apple ID can be the key that unlocks your cloud treasure–but if it’s in the wrong hands, it can allow an interloper to destroy memories and contacts, access your financial information through password resets, impersonate you to friends in scams, and even track you without your permission.

Apple continues to look for additional ways to protect your online life and devices by “hardening” how you log into an Apple ID from your devices and through the iCloud.com and Apple ID websites, among other places. Читать дальше...

Humans are facing an existential crisis in climate change. We are also facing a crisis of collective action. As a species, we have every reason to slow the rise of global temperatures, but taking steps to cut carbon emissions is generally not in the short-term interest of individuals, companies, or countries. Where does that leave IT organizations?

During the past decade, companies have been building significant computing workloads on public and private cloud infrastructure or shifting workloads to the cloud. Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services by end-users worldwide will reach $591 billion in 2023, a 43% increase from 2021. That’s a significant jump and suggests that many companies optimized their cloud migrations for speed and that managing costs and operational efficiency were likely secondary concerns.

No, AI isn’t going to take your job. Not yet anyway. As I’ve written, the best uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) complement human creativity rather than supplant it. Ironically, the best large language models, or LLMs, are trained, perhaps not always legally, using the copyrighted products of human creativity. People and robots are going to peacefully coexist for the foreseeable future.