"A combination of the Empire State Building and the beacon atop the Eiffel Tower," an SF Standard reporter said on the renovations to the Transamerica Pyramid's spire. Here's more on what's to come.
The WNBA is going international.
Kobo isn't the first on the color-ereader scene, but it did beat Amazon to the punch. The Kobo Clara Colour has a beautiful build, a lovely color screen and a helpful and speedy operating system. It’s the color ereader to beat — at least, for now.
Save up to 50% on favorites from brands like Skims, Tory Burch, Ugg, Zella, Le Creuset and more at the retailer's Half-Yearly event.
Google's Password Manager now allows sharing, albeit in a limited way with family members.
In 2021, Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu and Yizhar Gilboa came together to found Finout, an enterprise-focused toolset to help manage and optimize cloud costs. "One of the main challenges enterprise faces is wide cloud cost management tool adoption, which is first and foremost organizational change," Ravhon told TechCrunch. Indeed, companies are plunking down a small mountain of cash for cloud products and services amidst the AI boom.
AI is only the latest and hungriest market for high-performance computing, and system architects are working around the clock to wring every drop of performance out of every watt. Swedish startup ZeroPoint, armed with €5 million ($5.5M USD) in new funding, wants to help them out with a novel memory compression technique at the nanosecond scale — and yes, it's exactly as complicated as it sounds. The concept is this: losslessly compress data just before it enters RAM, and decompress it afterwards, effectively widening the memory channel by 50% or more just by adding one small piece to the chip.
I was visibly confused when I received the Anova Precision Cooker Nano as a gift. I associated sous vide cooking methods with the sort of intimidating, molecular gastronomy-style cuisine that is typically a fool's errand for home cooks. But I quickly found out that a sous vide machine is the perfect tool for someone like me who cooks herself a huge batch of something on Sunday and grazes on it through the workweek.
Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catchup with AWS and Microsoft's Azure. Google's announcement follows widespread outages across Africa, which have been attributed to faulty undersea cables.
Nvidia's blockbuster earnings have fired up optimism for AI's ability to fuel growth, eclipsing rate-hike worries for now.
Multiple Microsoft services including Bing and Copilot, along with ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are down in Europe.
Experts weigh in on avoiding germs, making a travel medicine checklist and staying up to date on health advisories.
Yes, the Phillies have faced a soft schedule. There's still plenty of reason to think they're for real.
OpenAI cast the actor of Sky's voice months before Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, and it had no intention of finding someone who sounded like her, according to The Washington Post.
Davis wants to know why there's a problem with $100K sponsorships for Aces players while Caitlin Clark reportedly has an 8-figure deal with Nike.
"We're not always going to agree, and there's certain things that he said that I don't necessarily agree with, but I understand the person that he is," Mahomes said.
Here's what nutritionists think about Gwyneth Paltrow and Oat Bakery's new grain-free, gluten-free and oil-free loaf.
Everything you need to know about the spread of avian influenza, aka bird flu, in the U.S.
As animals like howler monkeys fall dead from trees in Mexico due to high temperatures, conservationists explain their plan to protect wildlife during what is expected to be an unusually hot summer.
The Michigan dairy farm worker is the second human case in the U.S. this year.
Maybe not what Yankees fans want to hear ahead of Juan Soto's free agency.