Blistering heat waves have smashed temperature records around the globe this summer, scorching crops, knocking out power, fueling wildfires, buckling roads and runways, and killing hundreds in Europe alone. The sudden shift from an abstract threat to reality has many people wondering: is climate change unfolding faster than scientists had expected? Are these extreme events […]

Digital human created by Baidu AI Cloud and modeled after Chinese celebrity, Simon Gong. “Rising demand is driving the boom of digital humans,” says Shiyan Li, head of the digital human and robotics business at Baidu, which created the digital model-actor, Gong. “In China alone, there are over 400 million ACGN (animation, comics, games, and novel) fans, […]

Scientists simply have had too short of a time period with a climate system warmed by human actions to determine the answers to those sorts of questions.  “There’s a lot of uncertainty when it comes to these unprecedented and record-shattering events,” said Flavio Lehner, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell, in an […]

Climate change is making extreme heat the norm across more of the world, increasing the need for adaptation. But in the case of AC, some experts are concerned about how to balance that need with the harms the solutions can cause. Global AC sales more than tripled between 1990 and 2016, according to a 2018 […]

A DALL-E beta subscription won’t break the bank: $15 buys you 115 credits, and one credit lets you submit a text prompt to the AI, which returns four images at a time. In other words, that’s $15 for 460 images. On top of this, users get 50 free credits in their first month and 15 […]

The increased pace of high-profile threats (e.g., ransomware) is up to double–digit (15.8%) growth. The result is a dangerous path most likely to lead to continued losses for organizations that fall victim to a cyberattack without any gains in defensive powers. Indeed, a 2021 data breach report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute reveals that […]