Author: William Mapp (William Mapp)

New Nvidia Chip Promises a New Era of Green AI
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New Nvidia Chip Promises a New Era of Green AI

It’s no secret artificial intelligence is killing the planet. ChatGPT consumes a half-million kilowatt hours of electricity daily. That’s 17,000 times the daily usage of an American household. Just as the mood around AI begins to sour, Nvidia announced its latest GPU, the Blackwell, that cranks out 20 petaflops at 25% of the power of...

US House Passes New Data Privacy Bill After TikTok Bill
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US House Passes New Data Privacy Bill After TikTok Bill

It’s not the world’s premier data privacy law, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but it does offer a great deal of data privacy for Americans. Albeit, ham handedly. Yesterday, in another show of bipartisan spirit, the US House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act. The bill prohibits...

Microsoft Whistleblower Alerts FTC on Company’s Lack of Responsible AI
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Microsoft Whistleblower Alerts FTC on Company’s Lack of Responsible AI

There’s no shortage of examples of corporate AIs running rampant. What is rare is an AI company employee taking a responsible stance on the technology. Earlier this week, Shane Jones, a Microsoft software engineering manager sent an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft’s Board of Directors regarding the dangers of the company’s...

Chinese Invisibility Cloak Dazzles and Amazes Four Years Too Late
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Chinese Invisibility Cloak Dazzles and Amazes Four Years Too Late

The last several weeks have been abuzz in science technology. Science and fantasy buffs have been going wild over Twitter posts featuring an invisibility cloak invented by Chinese scientists. These posts have been mostly propagandistic in nature with an underlying criticism of the US being left behind. I’ve been critical of our focused efforts of...

Wintel Strikes Back: Microsoft and Intel Enter Megadeal
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Wintel Strikes Back: Microsoft and Intel Enter Megadeal

In another lifetime, Intel was the world’s chip leader. Then came the rise of 3D graphics cards, followed by cellphones, and then came AI. Intel watched as its chip dominance frittered away as Qualcomm and ARM began supplying chips for phones that were as powerful as desktop computers. The rise of AI repurposed graphics cards...

Tesla Cybertrucks Rusting After Months of Use
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Tesla Cybertrucks Rusting After Months of Use

Tesla Cybertrucks have only been on the road for a few months. In addition to the idiot nerds engaging the truck’s autopilot feature while wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset, drivers are reporting the trucks have started rusting. Can Withstand Bullets, but Not Rust The Tesla Cybertruck was billed as the truck of the future...

Deepfake Audio Brings Chaos and Disorder to London
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Deepfake Audio Brings Chaos and Disorder to London

AI brings lots of possibilities, but we humans are messy and are content to use a technology that can help us cure cancer, solve poverty, and environmental catastrophes to create porn, uncreative art, and deliver misinformation. Deepfakes are AI rendered audio and video recordings of people doing or saying things that are false. Deepfakes have...

Sign of the Times: YouTube Is America’s Fourth Largest Cable Provider
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Sign of the Times: YouTube Is America’s Fourth Largest Cable Provider

Yesterday, El Goog released subscriber numbers for YouTube TV, its for-pay cable subscription service. While cable providers have been losing subscribers, YouTube TV has been growing its subscriber base. The service has 8 million subscribers paying $73 per month. This number pales in comparison to Charter Communications’ 32 million. It’s also a paltry number compared...

Elon Musk: First Chipped Human Doing Well
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Elon Musk: First Chipped Human Doing Well

One of Elon Musk’s companies, NeuraLink, has reported successfully implanting a human patient with a human-computer interface. In this case, the human computer interface is a microchip with 1000 electrodes connecting micro-thin wires to human neurons. The chip is able to register electrochemical signals emitted by the brain and report those signals to a computer....