IPVanish Review 2024: Great for Beginners, But Privacy-Critical Users Should Avoid IPVanish has made a few small strides since my previous review, but I’m hopeful for its planned improvements in 2024. 04/29/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
Why a Brazilian UFC star is championing a dead Austrian economist In Latin America, the Austrian-American laissez-faire proponent Ludwig von Mises, who died in 1973, is having something of a moment. 04/28/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
Serious, Big-Boy Cord-Cutting Finally Catches Up to Charter — Top Pay TV Provider Just Had Its Worst Quarterly Customer Losses Ever As video cord-cutting has withered the customer ranks of the top pay TV operators to mere shadows of what they once were, Charter Communications has, to a degree, been spared the worst impact. Last ... 04/26/2024 - 5:41 am | View Link
Several tornadoes touch down in Omaha metro area. Here's where aid is available. Live updates here Some siding was gone and windows were broken. The street in front of her house was blocked with broken trees. "I've lived here my whole life, and I've never been through anything like this," she said. 04/25/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Wrangling the Regulators: Hollywood’s Urge to Merge is Dampened by Antitrust Policy Debate in Washington A raging debate in Washington has put a damper on Hollywood's urge to merge as regulatory leaders implement a radical overhaul of antitrust policies. 04/24/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. (credit: Apple, Inc.)
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G.
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If you've ever sent an iPhone in for repair, you might be familiar with the dance Apple asks you to do if your device still powers on: back up your data, then either erase the phone or disable the Find My feature so your phone can easily be serviced (or, if it's being exchanged for a new one, refurbished and resold).
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton wants Europe to have its own secure satellite communications network. (credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
It has been 18 months since the European Union announced its intent to develop an independent satellite Internet constellation, and the plans appear to be heading into troubled waters.
In that time, a single bid—from a consortium of multinational companies that includes Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and Arianespace—has emerged to build the network of a few hundred satellites.
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OpenAI has been showcasing Sora, its artificial intelligence video-generation model, to media industry executives in recent weeks to drum up enthusiasm and ease concerns about the potential for the technology to disrupt specific sectors.
The Financial Times wanted to put Sora to the test, alongside the systems of rival AI video generation companies Runway and Pika.
We asked executives in advertising, animation, and real estate to write prompts to generate videos they might use in their work.
Enlarge / The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. (credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt (University of Arizona) and A. Abergel (IAS/University Paris-Saclay, CNRS))
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