Month: November 2024

Auf der Airshow China wird ein Modell des wiederverwendbaren Haolong-Frachtschiffs vorgestellt. Das Konzept ähnelt dem Spaceshuttle. (Raumschiff, Raumfahrt)

Mit dem neuen Beta-Build schließt Microsoft den Channel für Windows 10 komplett. Der Test-Build bringt Werbung ins Startmenü. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

The new Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet that launched in October features the same processor as the previous-generation model. But it has more memory, a higher-resolution rear camera, and support for wireless charging. It’s a pretty modest update when it comes to hardware, which probably helps explain why it’s already on sale for $55 during […]

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It's Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2—a game of historical importance for the artistic medium and technology of computer games. Each day up through the 16th, we'll be running a new article looking back at the game and its impact.

The time has finally come to close one of the most notable gaps in my gaming history. Despite more than a decade of writing about video games and even more years enjoying them, I never got around to playing Half-Life 2.

Not only have I not played it, but I've managed to keep myself in the dark about pretty much everything to do with it. I always assumed that one day I would get around to playing this classic, and I wanted the experience to be as close as possible to it would have been back in 2004. So my only knowledge about Half-Life 2 before starting this project was 1) the game is set in the same universe as Portal, a game I love, 2) the silent protagonist is named Gordon Freeman, and he looks uncannily like a silent, spectacled young Hugh Laurie, and 3) there's something called the Gravity Gun.

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Bei Amazon gibt es schon vor der Black Friday Woche frühe Black Friday Angebote. Ein beliebter Gaming-Monitor von MSI kostet unter 100 Euro. (MSI, Display)

Since ChatGPT became an instant hit roughly two years ago, tech companies around the world have rushed to release AI products while the public is still in awe of AI's seemingly radical potential to enhance their daily lives.

But at the same time, governments globally have warned it can be hard to predict how rapidly popularizing AI can harm society. Novel uses could suddenly debut and displace workers, fuel disinformation, stifle competition, or threaten national security—and those are just some of the obvious potential harms.

While governments scramble to establish systems to detect harmful applications—ideally before AI models are deployed—some of the earliest lawsuits over ChatGPT show just how hard it is for the public to crack open an AI model and find evidence of harms once a model is released into the wild. That task is seemingly only made harder by an increasingly thirsty AI industry intent on shielding models from competitors to maximize profits from emerging capabilities.

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Diese Möglichkeit ist bisher kaum erforscht. Für eine florierende Wirtschaft auf dem Mond und die Kolonisierung des Mars ist das Laserschweißen im All jedoch notwendig. (Nasa, Raumfahrt)

Amazon hat zurzeit eine Soundbar von Sony mit Subwoofer und Rear-Speakern für echten 5.1-Kanal-Surround-Sound im Angebot. (Soundbar, Sony)

Disney+ verzeichnet für das abgelaufene Quartal einen Gewinn an Abonnenten. Außerdem schreibt Disney mit dem Streamingdienst schwarze Zahlen. (Disney+, Disney)

Garry Hunt ist für die Voyager-Missionen der Nasa verantwortlich. Trotz einiger Probleme glaubt er an ein großes Jubiläum für die 1977 gestarteten Raumsonden. (Nasa, Raumfahrt)