Can England win the Six Nations 2024 this weekend and can Ireland stop them?

[ad_1] England’s victory over Ireland last weekend has imbued Super Saturday – the triple-stacked final day of the Six Nations Championship – with a real sense of jeopardy. Can England win the Six Nations 2024? Or will it be Ireland’s day? From the moment that Andy Farrell’s men tore pre-tournament favourites France apart in the … Read more

Quordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, March 16 (game #782)

[ad_1] It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, … Read more

Soundcore’s new sleep earbuds promise noise isolation that’ll block out “sawing wood or grinding gravel”

[ad_1] To mark World Sleep Day 2024, Anker‘s Soundcore has announced a new and improved set of sleep earbuds. The Sleep A20 true wireless earbuds are on their way, and come with a slew of improvements over their predecessor (2022’s Sleep A10 earbuds). The brand promises vastly improved noise isolation, longer battery life, and some … Read more

AI chip built using ancient Samsung tech is claimed to be as fast as Nvidia A100 GPU — prototype is smaller and much more power efficient but is it just too good to be true?

[ad_1] Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an AI chip that they claim can match the speed of Nvidia‘s A100 GPU but with a smaller size and significantly lower power consumption. The chip was developed using Samsung‘s 28-nanometer manufacturing process, a technology considered relatively old in the fast-moving … Read more

This sneaky Android malware has an all-new way to avoid being detected

[ad_1] Cybersecurity researchers have found a new version of a well-known Android banking trojan malware which sports quite a creative method of hiding in plain sight. PixPirate targets mostly Brazilian consumers with accounts on the Pix instant payment platform, which allegedly counts more than 140 million customers, and services transactions north of $250 billion.  The … Read more

First US drug approved for a liver disease surging around the world

[ad_1] Liver tissue from a person with extra fat in the organ.Credit: IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science Photo Library For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug to treat an obesity-linked liver disease that is on the rise around the globe and is becoming a leading driver of liver … Read more

30 years ago, a merger marked the beginning of the end for Aldus and the birth of the Adobe we know today

[ad_1] The 1990s was a period of fast-paced change and disruption for the desktop publishing industry.  A swathe of different companies were bought, sold and merged together to reshape the foundations for what we see today – an industry dominated by Adobe.  One of the most significant deals of this era was Adobe’s merger with … Read more

How Hawking’s paradox still puzzles physicists

[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Avi Loeb and his team say that metallic balls found near Papua New Guinea could be of extraterrestrial origin.Credit: Avi Loeb’s photo collection Scientists have clashed over whether a research team has indeed found fragments … Read more

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

[ad_1] Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia. Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the creator of Grayskull), Taalas is developing an automated flow for quickly turning any AI model … Read more

Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief

[ad_1] Vision Impairment Michael Crossland UCL Press (2024) On a typical day in his clinic, London-based optometrist Michael Crossland assesses both young children and centenarians with low vision. Severe vision impairment affects 350 million people around the world, many of whom in poorer countries lack access to any eye care. His fascinating, sometimes moving, account … Read more