Mac Mini (2024): Specs, Release Date, Price, Features

Mac Mini (2024): Specs, Release Date, Price, Features

There’s Shark Week, and then there’s Mac Week. It’s a little less exciting, but Apple first announced a new iMac yesterday, and today we’re being treated to a new Mac Mini. Tomorrow, there’s a good chance you can expect a new MacBook Pro, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The Mac Mini is Apple’s…

Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

The time has finally come to announce the five finalists of the Startup Battlefield. It all started earlier this year when the TechCrunch editorial team selected 200 companies from thousands that applied. From there, the team then chose the 20 finalists who pitched this week onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to investor judges and packed…

Rallying around graduate student parents | MIT News

Rallying around graduate student parents | MIT News

Last month, the MIT Office of Graduate Education celebrated National Student Parent Month with features on four MIT graduate student parents. These students’ professional backgrounds, experiences, and years at MIT highlight aspects of diversity in our student parent population. Diana Grass is one of MIT’s most involved graduate student parents. Grass is a third-year PhD…

Hi-Precision Automatic CNC Laser Welding Machine for Sale

Hi-Precision Automatic CNC Laser Welding Machine for Sale

What Is Automatic Laser Welding Machine? Automatic laser welding machine is a type of computer numberical controlled laser welder to do automatic or semi-automatic butt welding, sealing welding, spot welding, overlap welding, and realize the welding of complex plane straight lines, arcs and arbitrary trajectories. A CNC laser welding machine is an automated high-precision fiber…

Study finds key protein aids nutrient transport within plant cells

Study finds key protein aids nutrient transport within plant cells

The KNS3-KNSTH1-KNSTH2 complex acts as a cargo receptor for the transport of boric acid channels from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Botanists have come to understand the channels and transporters involved in the uptake and transport of nutrients, yet how are they positioned where they need to be? For…

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Supremacy review: Riveting exploration of how AI models like ChatGPT changed the world

Tel Aviv University before a talk from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in June 2023 REUTERS/Amir Cohen SupremacyParmy Olson (Macmillan Business (UK); St Martin’s Press (US)) For most people, ChatGPT appeared to materalise out of thin air. Within weeks of OpenAI’s quiet launch of the AI chatbot, it had become the fastest-growing app of all time…

closeup of hornets feasting on a piece of fruit on the vine

These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk

Many animals, including humans, have developed a taste for alcohol in some form, but excessive consumption often leads to adverse health effects. One exception is the Oriental wasp. According to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these wasps can guzzle seemingly unlimited amounts of ethanol regularly and at…

Steve Bannon Is Out of Prison and Spreading Lies Online

Steve Bannon Is Out of Prison and Spreading Lies Online

Steve Bannon got out of federal prison at around 3 am Tuesday. Seven hours later, he was live on his War Room podcast to “flood the zone with shit” exactly one week before the presidential election. Flooding the zone with shit is Bannon’s own oft-quoted description of his media strategy: churning so many lies or…

Tony Fadell on mission-driven a**holes, Silicon Valley entitlement and why LLMs are 'know-it-alls'

Tony Fadell on mission-driven a**holes, Silicon Valley entitlement and why LLMs are ‘know-it-alls’

Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod and founder of Nest, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Tuesday to talk about how building the next generation of deep tech startups requires mission-driven a**holes. The entrepreneur and investor did not hold back on stage as he called out Silicon Valley for its entitlement and…