Bitcoin zooms to record beyond $72,000
Bitcoin raced to an all-time peak above $72,000 Monday as the world's most popular cryptocurrency won further support on greater trading accessibility and dollar weakness.
Mar 11, 2024
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TikTok dragged into US election as Trump opposes ban
In a major reversal, former US president Donald Trump on Monday said he was against a ban of TikTok as the fate of the popular video-sharing app was dragged into the US election campaign.
Mar 11, 2024
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EU states endorse scaled-back rules for app workers
EU states on Monday endorsed controversial rules to cover app workers in the so-called gig economy, after weeks of wrangling over the watered-down text.
Mar 11, 2024
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Automotive
ChargePoint CEO expects more electric vehicle stations as use and EV sales keep growing
Sales growth of electric vehicles in the U.S. has started to slow, and polls show it's due in part to anxiety over running out of battery power and too few charging stations.
Mar 11, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In New York City, heat pumps that fit in apartment windows promise big emissions cuts
For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred's Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control and sometimes didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the radiators ran so hot ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
TaskMatrix.AI: Making big models do small jobs with application programming interfaces
A research team at Microsoft has designed an efficiency tool called TaskMatrix.AI that can be used to accomplish a wide variety of specific AI tasks. TaskMatrix.AI connects general-purpose foundation models like GPT-4, the ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Business
Going top shelf with AI to better track hockey data
Researchers from the University of Waterloo got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Business
Detecting AI-manipulated content is a challenging arms race
Nude photos of pop superstar Taylor Swift recently flooded social media X, where they were viewed and shared by millions of users. But the images weren't real—they were deepfakes created using artificial intelligence (AI). ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Seeing green: Some older car owners show that there's more than one way of being eco-friendly
The ongoing climate emergency requires us to fundamentally rethink how we get around. Transportation accounts for approximately 25% of European greenhouse-gas emissions. Of this, road transportation represents by far the ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Engineering
April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around ...
Mar 11, 2024
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