Month: November 2024

Die EU-Vizepräsidentin sieht 12 Länder bei 5G-Sicherheit auf dem richtigen Weg. Ob Deutschland mit dem Huawei-Deal dabei ist, will man nicht sagen. (Security, Mobilfunk)

REDMAGIC’s smartphones for gamers have always offered borderline ridiculous-for-a-smartphone specs, but the new REDMAGIC 10 Pro is probably the most ridiculous to date. It’s a smartphone with a nearly tablet-sized 6.85 inch display featuring a 144 Hz refresh rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, and a massive 7,050 mAh battery, 100W fast charging, plus […]

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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is an upcoming computer-on-a-module featuring a Broadcom BCM2712 processor, support for up to 16GB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC storage, and a 40-pin connector that lets you connect the module to a carrier board or other devices to add ports and connectors. Raspberry Pi hasn’t officially introduced the […]

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Some electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are set to get less affordable from next year, it seems. As expected, the incoming Trump administration has set its sights on killing off the IRS clean vehicle tax credit, according to a report in Reuters this afternoon.

The clean vehicle tax credit was overhauled as part of President Joe Biden's signature climate legislation. Until then, the size of a plug-in vehicle's tax credit was based on its battery capacity, with a credit of up to $7,500 available. But from 2023 the rules changed, requiring a certain amount of domestic production to qualify, as well as adding price and income caps to address criticism that the tax credit mostly subsidized the already-wealthy.

Far fewer vehicles are now eligible for the rebate at time of purchase, particularly after the US Treasury Department got tougher about Chinese content, although a loophole means that none of these conditions apply to leased EVs.

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For some PC buyers, doing a clean install of Windows right out of the box is part of the setup ritual. But for Arm-based PCs, including the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips in them, it hasn't been possible in the same way. Microsoft (mostly) hasn't offered generic install media that can be used to reinstall Windows on an Arm PC from scratch.

Microsoft is fixing that today—the company finally has a download page for the official Arm release of Windows 11, linked to but separate from the ISOs for the x86 versions of Windows. These are useful not just for because-I-feel-like-it clean installs, but for reinstalling Windows after you've upgraded your SSD and setting up Windows virtual machines on Arm-based PCs and Macs.

Previously, Microsoft did offer install media for some Windows Insider Preview Arm builds, though these are for beta versions of Windows that may or may not be feature-complete or stable. Various apps, scripts, and websites also exist to grab files from Microsoft's servers and build "unofficial" ISOs for the Arm version of Windows, though obviously this is more complicated than just downloading a single file directly.

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Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit— move. Even a few moments of exercise can have benefits, studies suggest. But in our modern times, sitting is hard to avoid, especially at the office. This has led to a range of strategies to get ourselves up, including the rise of standing desks. If you have to be tethered to a desk, at least you can do it while on your feet, the thinking goes.

However, studies on whether standing desks are beneficial have been sparse and sometimes inconclusive. Further, prolonged standing can have its own risks, and data on work-related sitting has also been mixed. While the final verdict on standing desks is still unclear, two studies out this year offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.

Take a seat

For years, studies have pointed to standing desks improving markers for cardiovascular and metabolic health, such as lipid levels, insulin resistance, and arterial flow-mediated dilation (the ability of arteries to widen in response to increased blood flow). But it's unclear how significant those improvements are to averting bad health outcomes, such as heart attacks. One 2018 analysis suggested the benefits might be minor.

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Der V8-Motor des Lego-Technik-Konkurrenten Mould King kann mit Batterien elektrisch betrieben werden. Kurz ist er im Amazon-Angebot. (Lego, Unterhaltung & Hobby)

Hohe Datenraten sollen in jeden Raum. Huawei zeigt den Kunden auf seiner Europamesse FTTR und mehr. (Huawei, Mobilfunk)

In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced the Transformer AI architecture that underpins almost all of today's high-profile generative AI models.

The Transformer has made a key component of the modern AI boom possible by translating (or transforming, if you will) input chunks of data called "tokens" into another desired form of output using a neural network. Variations of the Transformer architecture power language models like GPT-4o (and ChatGPT), audio synthesis models that run Google's NotebookLM and OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode, video synthesis models like Sora, and image synthesis models like Midjourney.

At TED AI 2024 in October, one of those eight researchers, Jakob Uszkoreit, spoke with Ars Technica about the development of transformers, Google's early work on large language models, and his new venture in biological computing.

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Die Rosetta-Mission erreichte im August 2014 ihr Zielobjekt. Im November setzte die Esa-Raumsonde ein Mini-Labor auf dem Kometen Tschuri ab. (Rosetta, Raumfahrt)