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On April 15, 1912, the British merchant ship SS Mesaba issued a radio warning of the iceberg to the Titanic during its transatlantic crossing. The Titanic received the message, but it was not communicated to the main control center. That night the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. The Mesaba was torpedoed by a German […]

OpenAI released the latest version of its natural language image synthesis system DALL-E earlier this year, open beta testing, but users need to apply and pass a waiting list. Now OpenAI has announced that it will allow anyone to use DALL-E immediately (the restrictions have not been lifted yet). DALL-E attracts digital artists, graphic designers,

To prevent winter energy shortages, the German government plans to keep two of the remaining three nuclear power plants running until mid-April next year . Economy and Energy Minister Robert Habeck said Isar 2 in Bavaria and Neckarwestheim in Stuttgart would run until next year. The third nuclear power plant, Emsland in Lower Saxony, remains

Representatives from 193 countries will elect the next secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) , an American and a Russian, on Thursday at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. The election of leaders of United Nations technical agencies has received little public attention. But the stakes in this election will go far beyond the

Intel has released the XeSS 1.0 source code, hosted on GitHub under the Intel Simplified Software license. XeSS stands for Xe Super Sampling and is a frame rate boosting technology developed by Intel for its graphics cards, similar to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution and NVIDIA DLSS. It’s technically closer to DLSS, leveraging AI deep learning

Intel has released a 13th-generation Core processor codenamed Raptor Lake, which will be available on October 20. The new processor still uses the Intel 7 process, but has increased clock frequencies and added more E-efficiency cores. Intel announced a total of three models, each of which has two versions with and without integrated display (the

The journal Nature has retracted the controversial paper on room-temperature superconductivity . In a paper published in October 2020, scientists reported that a compound composed of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur under ultra-high pressure can exhibit superconductivity at room temperature. But the paper quickly sparked controversy in the scientific community, with skeptics arguing that there was

The just-released Windows 11 22H2 was found to cause a blue screen of death on devices using Intel Smart Sound Technology (SST) audio drivers. Microsoft said in a statement that Intel and Microsoft found compatibility issues with some versions of the SST driver. Intel SST is an integrated audio DSP (Digital Signal Processor) that handles

Apple announced on Monday that it started assembling the iPhone 14 in India . Apple said its foundry Foxconn began assembling its latest flagship phones at Sriperumbudur, a factory in Chennai. Apple has been assembling iPhones in India since 2017, but usually older models. The iPhone 14 is the latest model just released, and the

During the creation of the Star Wars TV series Obi-Wan Kenobi, James Earl Jones signed an agreement to allow Disney to use AI to synthesize its voice in future projects. Jones, 91, has voiced Darth Vader, Star Wars’ most famous villain, for 45 years. He had long considered quitting, but without his signature voice, where

Bloomberg, citing analysts at Jefferies, reported that consumers snapped up 987,000 iPhone 14 units in the first three days of delivery, down 11 percent from the same period last year for the iPhone 13 series. “These preliminary data suggest that iPhone 14 sales may not be as strong as pre-order levels suggest, as pre-orders don’t

CCTV interviewed engineers from the 360 ​​Company and the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, which investigated the Northwestern Polytechnical University cyber attack. An investigation by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center found : According to the big data analysis of related cyber attacks, 98% of the cyber attacks against Northwestern Polytechnical University were

The open source free software historical strategy game 0 AD has released the Alpha 26 Zhuangzi Edition. 0 AD style is similar to Age of Empires and includes elements such as building bases, training troops, fighting, and researching technologies. The game’s faction contains multiple civilizations, and each civilization has its own unique army and buildings.