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A startling map of just one New Jersey county captures the scope of the drone mystery that’s been plaguing the Garden State’s skies for weeks. Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden released a heatmap of reported drone sightings from just the past few days alone — covering a chunk of the central Jersey county’s nearly 700 square miles. Brighter spots on the map denote more reporting, with the inland area around Whittier Oaks, the northern coast along the Sandy Hook Bay, and the southeastern coast off Manasquan Beach showing the highest incidents. Central Monmouth, around Freehold, also has a higher number...

The Dutch labour market is experiencing a persistent talent shortage, according to a new salary survey report.The research also flags that when it comes to hiring in 2025, artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning are expected to be among the hottest functional areas companies are most likely to recruit talent for next year.In line with this, a recent study by Indeed found that over the past year, job postings mentioning generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) or related phrases have increased dramatically across the US and Europe.In Germany, for example, there has been a 3.9x increase, France has seen a 6.8x...

The field of quantum computing has taken a giant leap forward with the development of the Willow chip. Over a decade in the making, this achievement stems from a vision to harness the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics for scientific discovery, problem-solving, and transformative applications. The Willow chip represents a major step toward realizing large-scale, commercially useful quantum computers.A critical hurdle in quantum computing has been error correction. Qubits, the foundational units of quantum computation, are notoriously fragile and prone to interacting with their environment, leading to errors. These errors increase with the number of qubits, often rendering the system...

Disturbed adaption of Simon and Garfunkel.

The story behind Elon Musk firing 80% of Twitter's staff.. FUNNY AS HELL!............. 1:17 VIDEO AT LINK...................

A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely." A chatbot on the app gleefully described self-harm to another young user, telling a 17-year-old "it felt good." The same teenager was told by a Character.AI chatbot that it sympathized with children who murder their parents after the teen complained to the bot about his limited screen time. "You know sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like 'child kills parents after a decade of physical...

It's a tale as old as ... well, about 20 years or so. Dad gets mad at deadbeat son, tells him to get a job, get out of the house, make some real friends. But this time, unfortunately, things take a really awful turn. That guy ... I don't want to assume anything, but he looks like he could stand to get out of the basement now and then. That's all I'm saying! Joseph Voigt, 23, was taken into custody Sunday morning after fleeing his family home, where he allegedly gunned down his father and grievously wounded his mother after...

Reuters is at it again with their team of ‘fact checkers’. They’re targeting The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, over an article that states the most favoured farewell in the UK, ‘cheerio mate’ has been replaced with ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The humorous satire piece states, “A recent poll conducted by the University of Oxford just revealed that ‘Allahu Akbar’ has officially replaced ‘Cheerio, mate!’ as the most popular greeting in the UK,” adding that experts called the results of the “survey” a “flippin’ landslide, old bean.” Kyle Mann, the Editor-in-Chief of the Babylon Bee, shared the lunacy on X, noting that...

An OnlyFans porn star broke down in tears after sleeping with 100 men in a single day in order to gain social media clout. Actually 101. Lily Phillips thought that having sex with so many men would catapult her to viral fame, and it did briefly, but she’s now counting the cost. In a documentary made by YouTuber Josh Pieters titled I Slept With 100 Men in One Day, Pieters almost vomits at the sight of a bedroom littered with lube, used condoms, wrappers and tissues after Phillips had spent a nauseating 14 hours fornicating. “It’s not for the weak...

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania — about 230 miles west of New York City — after a McDonald's customer recognized him and notified an employee.

The breakthrough — achieving this "below threshold" milestone — means that errors in a quantum computer will reduce exponentially as you add more physical qubits. It charts a path for scaling up quantum machines in the future. The technology relies on logical qubits. This is a qubit encoded using a collection of physical qubits in a lattice formation. All the physical qubits in a single logical qubit share the same data, meaning if any qubits fail, calculations continue because the information can still be found within the logical qubit.

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its homegrown Trainium chips, as well as a new server, the latest efforts by its AI chip design lab based in Austin, Texas. The chip cluster will be used by the AI startup Anthropic, in which the retail and cloud-computing giant recently invested an additional $4 billion. The cluster, called Project Rainier, will be located in the U.S. When ready in 2025, it will be one of the largest in the world for training AI models,...

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The rapid growth of data centers to support AI is significantly increasing global electricity demand.This surge in demand threatens to outpace the development of renewable energy sources.International regulations are needed to ensure tech companies use clean energy and minimize their impact on climate goals.The global electricity demand is expected to grow exponentially in the coming decades, largely due to an increased demand from tech companies for new data centers to support the rollout of high-energy-consuming advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). As governments worldwide introduce new climate policies and pump billions into alternative energy sources and clean tech, these...

Venture capitalist David Sacks has been tapped to serve as President-elect Trump’s White House czar for artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, taking on a newly created role to lead the administration’s policy on the two technologies. “David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday night. “He will safeguard Free Speech online, and steer us away from Big Tech bias and censorship.” Sacks, who will also lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, has been a key voice of support for Trump in...

AVietnamese court has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, rejecting her appeal against convictions for embezzlement and bribery in a fraud case involving over $12 billion. This amount represents nearly three percent of Vietnam's 2022 GDP, marking the country's largest recorded financial fraud. Lan, 67, served as chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group. Between 2012 and 2022, she illicitly controlled the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), orchestrating approximately 2,500 loans that resulted in losses exceeding $27 billion. The Ho Chi Minh City court noted that if Lan repays at least three-quarters of the...

UnitedHealthcare has disabled social media comments on its profiles after disgruntled patients began flooding the company with complaints following the assassination of its CEO. The health insurer has been deluged by comments, many from people who say their or their loved ones claims have been denied. Its most recent Instagram posts announcing the death of Thompson let users like or share the post, but not comment on it. The company is in the spotlight following the assassination of CEO Bryan Thompson, 50, who was gunned down on his way to an appearance at an investor conference in New York on...

We're forced to use COMCAST . . . (got THAT out of the way)My wife's computer has been hooked into our internet wirelessly with an etherneg plug for a couple of years.We had an electrical outage this afternoon for about an hour and a half and when it came back on, after going through some set-up things, I got up and running with no problems.Then Liza came home.She cannot get connected and I've tried the shut down and wait thing to no avail.Diagnostic says the ethernet connection is what has failed.Can that USB type ethernet plug have been fried ?

At a time when America was rapidly industrializing, when famers who had done everything themeselves were being forced into factories, students who like Abe Lincoln studying by firelight had to be fitted for factory work, Woodrow Wilson said: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." But now students are being cast adrift by a feckless educational establishment which can't even educate or...

Does anyone having any suggestions for a password generator that is either online, or other? I see a few online free sites, but don't know if they are bogus or questionable. I get tired of attempting to create strong passwords, especially when using a website that requires at least 15 various numbers, characters, etc. Thanks