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On November 30, 2022, OpenAI announced a new product to the world, innocuously describing it as a “conversational interaction model called ChatGPT.” It is no exaggeration to suggest that ChatGPT has since transformed the business and technology world and has become extremely popular. ChatGPT is still #1 on Apple’s list of free apps. At the same time, it is also acting as a catalyst for a large number of generated AI products. Chatbots will never take this away from me, so people have even started to doubt em dashes. In fact, Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, claimed in…
Finland’s weather is notorious. But still, the food you order may be delivered by drone. On a rainy day after the annual Slush conference in Helsinki, Finnish entrepreneur Ville Reppela talks to TechCrunch about the behind-the-scenes story of the three-way partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna, DoorDash-owned food delivery platform Wolt, and his startup Huuva. Huuva, whose name means kitchen food, raised a seed round led by General Catalyst in 2022 with the promise of bringing delicious food to the suburbs. Although the company has evolved from its cloud kitchen origins, its business still relies heavily on delivery technology,…
“Time passes”, “Time waits for no one”, “As time passes”: When we talk about time, we tend to strongly imply that the passage of time is some kind of real process happening in the world. We live in the present moment, moving through time as events come and go, fading into the past.However, try to actually verbalize what the flow and passage of time means. What flow? Rivers flow because water is moving. What does it mean to say that time passes?Events are more like events than things, but we talk about their locations as if they were constantly changing…
Think about your morning cup of coffee. Warm the water with the heating element of the kettle or the flame on the stove, infuse it with beans and pour it into a mug. Maybe you’re busy and your cup of joe sits there for a while, releasing heat into the room’s atmosphere until it reaches equilibrium with the room temperature. In other words: It got cold.Now, let’s consider that something similar could someday happen in the vast Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, humans have turned up the kettle to maximum temperatures, adding extraordinary…
simple factsWhat is it: Artist impression of Supernova SN 2024ggiLocation: Located 22 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra.Share date: November 12, 2025On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Earth Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected the first light from the explosion of a massive star with approximately 12 to 15 times the mass of the Sun. Just 26 hours later, astronomers pointed the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile at the supernova, as this initial brief window provided a rare opportunity to study the early stages of a star’s death.This amazing image, interpreted by an artist, shows a supernova explosion…
If you spot a small, long-tailed amphibian near a forested pond, you’re probably looking at a salamander or newt.But what is the difference between a salamander and a newt? And how do you tell them apart?”One of the things about all newts being salamanders is that not all salamanders are newts,” Nick Bergmeier, a research biologist at Purdue University, told Live Science. you may like On the tree of life, salamanders are a large and diverse group of tailed amphibians. “They are in the order Caudata, which literally means ‘tailed’ in Latin,” said Karen Kiemnek-Tiburzi, an associate professor at California…
November 30, 2025Ravi LakshmananHacktivism / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog to include security flaws affecting OpenPLC ScadaBR, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-26829 (CVSS score: 5.4), a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that affects Windows and Linux versions of the software via system_settings.shtm. Affects the following versions: OpenPLC ScadaBR ~ 1.12.4 on Windows OpenPLC ScadaBR ~ 0.9.1 on Linux The security flaws were added to KEV’s catalog a little more than a month after Fores Scout announced in September 2025 that it had captured…
U.S. consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites. Adobe said this is a new record and surpasses the $10.8 billion spent on Black Friday last year. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., online shoppers could have spent $12.5 million every minute. Forbes reports that Adobe said in a statement that the numbers show Black Friday is “a big driver for e-commerce as more shoppers choose to stay home and take advantage of sales.” According to Reuters, the company predicts that Cyber Monday…
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie began a daily conversation with Perplexity. She often reads developer work on quantum algorithms and writes readme files and other documentation for GitHub. She is a Pro subscriber and uses the service in “best” mode. This means choosing which underlying model to tap between ChatGPT and Claude. It worked fine at first. But then she felt it belittled and ignored her. They started asking for the same information over and over again. She had anxious thoughts. Did the AI not trust her? Cookie, who is black, changed her profile avatar to a white…
Annual global production of plastics is expected to increase to 400 million tonnes in 2022 and double by 2050. Many of the products produced are single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled.In August 2025, more than 2,600 participants from United Nations member states met for the fifth time to negotiate a deal to end plastic pollution, but it fell short of bridging the fundamental gap between binding and voluntary measures. Countries with interests in oil and plastic production describe themselves as a “like-minded group” and argue that the treaty only covers the recycling and consumption of plastics…