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AI uses lots of energy, but experts say it can help save some

AI uses lots of energy, but experts say it can help save some

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less. Data centers needed to fuel AI accounted for about 1.5% of the world’s electricity consumption last year, and those facilities’ energy consumption is predicted to more …

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He Won the $2 Billion Powerball. Now He’s Buying Up Lots Burned in the L.A. Fires. – The Wall Street Journal

He Won the $2 Billion Powerball. Now He’s Buying Up Lots Burned in the L.A. Fires.  The Wall Street Journal Corporations are buying up Altadena lots. Policies to counter that trend have so far failed  LAist Powerball winner Edwin Castro breaks silence to reveal controversial latest spending splurge after historic $2b win  The US Sun Powerball billionaire Edwin Castro sparks fury after buying …

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Peloton updates its Bike, Tread and Row machines with form-checking cameras, rotating screens and lots of AI

Peloton updates its Bike, Tread and Row machines with form-checking cameras, rotating screens and lots of AI

It’s been a rough time for Peloton. Last year was marred by deep staff cuts, a change of CEO and a reckoning of where the home fitness company belonged, post-Pandemic boom. The answer is, unfortunately, AI-tinged, but that shouldn’t distract from some major hardware upgrades across its Bike, Tread and Row family of machines. It’s an almost-entire overhaul, with new …

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Windows 11 KB5065789 update brings lots of new features – Neowin

Windows 11 KB5065789 update brings lots of new features  Neowin Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6760 (Dev Channel)  Windows Blog Windows 11’s new beta update removes a feature for seemingly no reason  XDA Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows 11 update to fix Office problems  BetaNews Windows 11 KB5065789 24H2 out with AI in Explorer, direct download links (.msu)  Windows Latest Source link

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Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files

Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files

Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel. These changes for the Linux 6.18 kernel include one pull request that touches the writeback code to address a situation of lockups being reported by users when systemd units read lots of files. The problem at hand with …

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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says path to autonomous deliveries filled with ‘lots of pain and suffering’ but company is nearing first inning of commercial progress

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says path to autonomous deliveries filled with ‘lots of pain and suffering’ but company is nearing first inning of commercial progress

Tony Xu, cofounder and CEO of food and grocery giant DoorDash, doesn’t sugar coat the company’s efforts, and challenges, developing autonomous delivery technologies. “Candidly, it’s mostly been filled with lots of pain and suffering,” Xu said in an on-stage interview on Monday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. DoorDash has been working on autonomy and robotics technology …

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OpenAI Warns AGI May Make Money Obsolete, While Raising Lots of USD

OpenAI Warns AGI May Make Money Obsolete, While Raising Lots of USD

I’m not qualified to give investment advice, but the market felt a little toppy this week, don’t you think? A series of signals suggested we may be over our skis on the AI investing slopes. Yes, I recently watched the Enron documentary with my daughter Tessa, so I’m mentally primed to question more things right now. It was unnerving to …

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