The Titan submersible that has been missing for days in the Atlantic Ocean with five men on board suffered a “catastrophic loss” consistent with the implosion of the vessel, the United States Coast Guard has said. US Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday that a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) found debris off the bow of the Titanic, the century-old shipwreck that was the intended destination of the expedition. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Mauger told reporters. The submersible, which had been missing since Sunday off the eastern coast of Canada, sparked a…
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Aston Martin turns to US EV company Lucid for high-tech help
June 26 (Reuters) – Aston Martin (AML.L) has reached a deal that will give US electric vehicle (EV) maker Lucid Group (LCID.O) a 3.7% stake in return for access to its “high performance” technology, the British company said on Monday, sending its shares up nearly 15%. Under the agreement, Aston Martin will make cash payments and issue 28.4 million new ordinary shares to Lucid, worth together about $232 million. The shift to electric is phenomenally costly, with carmakers globally committing around $1.2 trillion to the low-emission technology. Smaller carmakers like Aston Martin are more reliable on partnerships to make the…
Apple Vision Pro: Can it really buck the trend of augmented reality flops?
With its high price – which is nearly five times as much, when adjusted for inflation, as the first iPhone went on sale for in 2007 – Apple may still struggle to convince many users to try it. Some technology commentators suggest that Apple should target the first version of the Vision Pro at specialist users, such as architects, who could use the augmented reality to imagine what a building might look like in situ. Future generations of the device, when the price comes down thanks to technological advances, could be targeted more at mainstream users. Aiming for a niche…
Exciting Revelations at Apple WWDC 2023
apples‘s WWDC 2023 events took place recently, bringing a host of exciting announcements across various product categories. From new gadgets to operating system updates, here are the key highlights from the Apple WWDC 2023 event: mac apples have introduced a host of new range of Mac devices, including a refreshed 15-inch MacBook Pro, boasting improved performance and a whole lot of enhanced features. The Mac Studio, aimed at creative professionals, received a significant power boost with the introduction of the M2 Ultra chip, Apple’s most powerful Silicon chip up till now. The long-awaited Mac Pro now runs on Apple Silicon,…
GPT-4 is old news: ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is redefining AI tech
OpenAI’s sensational AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, has been creating waves on the internet ever since its launch in November 2022. Its super abilities have set off an AI race among the biggest tech companies in the world. Even as tech giants scramble to create the most innovative AI technology, developers around the world are exploring new ways to use ChatGPT, which is currently powered by OpenAI’s highly potent large language model, GPT-4. In March, Sam Altman’s company announced that it was ending ChatGPT with the ability to browse the internet with the help of plugins. Plugins seem to have opened a…
How to Conduct IoT Penetration Testing
IoT Penetration Testing is the need of time as modern society is completely surrounded and equipped with electronic gadgets, and as time goes on, our reliability on these devices will only grow. For example, we have switched to electronic fingerprint locks and have voice-activated fans, lighting, and showers. Therefore, devices that help us live better lives are stored in our private information. However, since all devices are moving towards IoT (Internet of Things), which simply refers to network interconnected devices that can share and communicate information over the internet. Although IoT development technology has the potential to improve our quality…
Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing | TechnologyNews
Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, tested before members of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday about the need to regulate the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft. The three-hour-long hearings touched on several aspects of the risks that generative AI could pose to society, how it would affect the jobs market and why regulation by governments would be needed. Tuesday’s hearing will be the first in a series of hearings to come as lawmakers grapple with drafting regulations around AI to address its ethical, legal and national security…
Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about technology’s future
The “godfather of AI” is issuing a warning about the technology he helped create. Geoffrey Hinton, a trailblazer in artificial intelligence, has joined the growing list of experts sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. The renowned computer scientist recently left his job at Google to speak openly about his worries about the technology and where he sees it going. “It is hard to see how you can prevent bad actors from using it for bad things,” Hinton said in an interview with The New York Times. Hinton is worried that future versions of the technology pose…