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AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era
It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow.This post was originally published on this site
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FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity
The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the moves will make it more difficult […]
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Semiconductor neuron mimics brain’s memory and adaptive response abilities
The human brain does more than simply regulate synapses that exchange signals; individual neurons also process information through intrinsic plasticity, the adaptive ability to become more sensitive or less sensitive depending on context. Existing artificial […]
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California enacts AI safety law targeting tech giants
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law groundbreaking legislation requiring the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies to publicly disclose their safety protocols and report critical incidents, state lawmakers announced Monday.This post was originally published […]
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Instagram’s ‘deliberate design choices’ make it unsafe for teens despite Meta promises, report says
Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with “woefully ineffective” safety […]
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EU chief backs calls to keep children off social media
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday threw her support behind growing calls to ban social media use for children, promising to weigh action at the European level in coming months.This post was originally […]
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5G is deployed, but it doesn’t always deliver faster connections than 4G
5G has been part of our lives and the market for several years, while the industry is already looking ahead to its successor, 6G. But can we say it is fully implemented?This post was originally […]
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China penalizes ByteDance and Alibaba platforms in content crackdown
China’s top internet regulator said Tuesday it would take action against ByteDance-owned news app Jinri Toutiao and Alibaba’s internet browser company UCWeb for allegedly displaying harmful content, a day after announcing a two-month social media […]
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Miniaturized ion traps show promise of 3D printing for quantum-computing hardware
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara have miniaturized quadrupole ion traps for the first time with 3D printing—a breakthrough in one of […]
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New design tackles integer factorization problems through digital probabilistic computing
Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard problems, such as optimization or integer factorization tasks, more efficiently than classical systems. To solve problems, PIMs rely on interacting […]