Karen Alfaro

276 published news

August 2024

1. 08 August
2. The Happiest Country in the World Has a Problem: The Foreigners Who Live There Think Otherwise
3. NASA Has a Very Simple Explanation for Why We're Unable to Find Aliens
4. South Texas Has Hit the Jackpot Again: An Unlimited Supply of Clean Energy to Replace Oil
5. 07 August
6. Microsoft Edge Already Owns Almost 14% of the Browser Market. Google Chrome Reigns But Loses Ground
7. House of the Dragon Will End Its Story Soon, But HBO Will Continue to Squeeze Out Game of Thrones Content for a Long Time
8. 06 August
9. Chinese Companies Sanctioned by the U.S. Have a Plan to Keep Buying AI Chips, a Very Creative One
10. 05 August
11. It’s Time to Debunk the Myth of Drinking ‘8 Glasses of Water a Day,’ But We Have a Problem
12. ‘That Doesn’t Hold Up in the Electric Era’: Ford Explains Why It Wants to Either Sell Expensive Gas Cars or Small EVs
13. Starship’s Fifth Flight Has a New Goal: To Test Its Robotic Arm, 'Mechazilla'
14. 04 August
15. Microsoft and OpenAI Have Been Great Allies, Until Now
16. 03 August
17. Imane Khelif Isn’t a Trans Woman. Her Case Illustrates the Enormous Problems the Olympics Has When It Comes to Intersexuality
18. ‘NASA Is Evaluating All Options’: There’s a 50% Chance That the Astronauts Stranded on the Starliner Won’t Return to Earth on the Spacecraft
19. 02 August
20. Netflix Releases Disturbing Trailer for Squid Game Season 2 and Announces Premiere Dates for the Next Season
21. The Metaverse Isn’t Dead, but It’s Making Meta Lose Money, Specifically, $50 Billion Since 2020
22. Meta Takes a Strong Step Forward in the AI Race, Unveiling Its SAM 2 Video Editor
23. Apple Insists Users Should Wear Their Apple Watch When They Sleep. It Sounds Like a Prelude to the Company’s Ring Launch
24. 01 August
25. There Are Hardly Any World Records in Swimming at the Paris Olympics. One of the Prime Suspects: The Pool
26. The Least Known Trick to Make Coffee in a Moka Pot Is Also the Easiest
27. Dust Is One of the Biggest Enemies of Solar Panels. Electromagnetic Waves Aim to Be the Solution
28. Portugal Declares War on Digital Nomads: The Attempt to Attract Talent Has Decimated Its Young Population
29. We Thought We Had an Accurate Date for the Origin of Life, but We Were Off by About 1.5 Billion Years
30. Bill Gates Has Become One of the Largest Landowners in the U.S. for a Good Reason: To Get Richer
31. CapCut and TikTok Are Tearing Apart the Competition. Their Strategy: Turning Everyone Into Video Editors
32. Samsung Is Also Striking Gold With AI: Its Memory Chips Have Increased Profits by 1,458%

July 2024

1. 31 July
2. Some Tesla Owners Thought a Wet Towel Would Save Them a Lot of Charging Time. Tesla Had to Explain the Obvious
3. The Hong Kong Government Has Recruited a Top AI Scientist. Its Plan Goes Beyond China’s Borders
4. Meta Will Pay Texas $1.4 Billion for Violating User Privacy. It Used Facial Recognition Without Permission
5. 30 July
6. Japan’s Biggest Tourism Challenge Isn’t Overcrowding on Mt. Fuji, But Rather Electric Suitcases. It’s Already Putting the Brakes on Them
7. Neuralink’s Competition Is Growing: Here's What the Future Implant Created by Paradromics Looks Like
8. Volkswagen’s Software Is So Bad That the Company Has Found Only One Solution: Sending Its Engineers to China to Learn How to Fix It
9. Instagram Creators Will Be Able to Chat With All Their Followers. Except They Won't Be Doing It, Their Bots Will
10. 29 July
11. Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch. It's Been a Bad Investment for a Decade
12. China Is Closing the Gap With the U.S. in AI, the New Space Race
13. 28 July
14. Japanese Supermarkets Are Using AI to Monitor Employees’ Smiles Because They Want Customers to Be Completely Satisfied
15. HMD Skyline: This Successor of the Legendary Nokia Lumia 920 Has Repairability as Its Main Feature
16. 27 July
17. A U.S. Security Company Thought It Had Hired an Engineer. It Was a North Korean Cybercriminal
18. 26 July
19. China Is the World’s Largest Producer of Renewables, But It Has a Problem: What to Do With All the Used Turbines and Panels
20. How to Stop X (Twitter) From Using Your Posts and Messages to Train Grok, Its Artificial Intelligence Model
21. Yellowstone’s Massive Hydrothermal Explosion Reminds Us That It’s an ‘Box of Bombs’ Visited by 4 Million People Each Year
22. Large 2 Is Mistral’s New Language Model. It’s a European Ode to Efficiency
23. SearchGPT Could Be Google’s Biggest Threat Ever. But to Really Become a Threat, It Needs a Miracle: Not to Screw It Up
24. I Tried Nvidia’s Project G-Assist and Now I Finally Understood How AI Aims to Change How We Play
25. ‘Old Person Smell’ Is Real. So Real That Researchers Have Spent Years Trying to Understand How It Works
26. A U.S. City Is ‘Depaving’ Its Streets to Combat the Heat. It Has an Ally: NASA
27. Apple Maps Has Left the Apple Ecosystem. You Can Now Try the Web Version, Which Aims to Compete With Google Maps
28. 25 July
29. Companies Wanted to Return to the Office at All Cost. According to Gartner, They Paid a High Price
30. The AI Bubble Is Starting to Deflate: Big Tech Had Its Worst Day on the Stock Market Since the Rise of ChatGPT
31. Brazil Tested 13 Sharks off the Coast of Rio de Janeiro. All Specimens Tested Positive for Cocaine
32. The Amazon Echo Is Dying of Success. Millions Are Sold, But the Company Continues Losing Money
33. An Increasing Number of Carmakers Are Rejecting the New Apple CarPlay. The Reason: Control
34. Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Saying That His AI Model Is Open Source, But He's Misusing the Term
35. 23 July
36. Experts Warn Against Digging Holes on the Beach Deeper Than Two Feet. There's a Good Reason for the Warning
37. Sanctions Are Keeping China Out of the International Economy. Last Friday, They Staved Off Something Worse: CrowdStrike
38. Sam Altman Has Been Secretly Giving Away Millions of Dollars. His Goal: Carrying Out the Largest Study of Universal Basic Income
39. 22 July
40. The Chaos Caused by CrowdStrike Is Bad News for One of the Great Projects of Our Time: Ending the Use of Cash
41. This Region in Latin America Has More Oil Than Saudi Arabia, But It Produces 12 Times Less
42. 21 July
43. Meta's Ray-Bans Have Been Such a Hit That the Company Is Reportedly Thinking About Investing in That Makes Them
44. The Earth Is Spinning Slower and Days Are Getting Longer. We Have a Suspect: Melting Ice
45. The CMF Phone 1 Was the Appetizer. The Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Is Looking Like It'll Be the Main Course
46. We Knew That Hippo Races Were Fast, but We Didn’t Realize That They Spend 15% of the Race in the Air
47. 20 July
48. China Is Betting Big on a Business That Has Never Managed to Take Off: Sustainable Aviation Fuels
49. In Japan, People Can’t Stop Shopping, But There’s No One to Transport the Orders. The Solution Is an Epic 310-Mile Conveyor Belt
50. Sam Altman Paid $27 Million for One of the Most Expensive Mansions in San Francisco. Today, It’s a Mess That Even ChatGPT Didn’t Expect
51. 19 July
52. What Seemed Impossible Has Become a Reality: Marvel Is Bringing Back the Russo Brothers for the Next Avengers Movies
53. AI Promised to Revolutionize Cell Phones, But I Haven't Seen Anything Revolutionary Yet
54. 18 July
55. The EU Won't Receive Meta’s Next Major AI Models. The Reason: Local Regulations
56. China Envisions a Future With Ultra-Light Carbon Fiber Subway Trains. It's Already Produced the First One
57. This Company Promises That It Can Produce Up to 20 Times More Energy Than Solar Panels by Using Photonic Spheres
58. Taylor Swift Has Already Released 34 Editions of Her Latest Album. Her Goal: To Never Leave the Charts
59. Audi Will Close Its First Electric Car Factory. The Reason Is Simple: It’s Not Selling EVs
60. We Thought Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas Were Absolutely Tame. Not Quite
61. Tesla Delayed Its $25,000 Electric Car to Unveil a Robotaxi in August. In the End, We Won’t See Either One
62. If Your Clothes Smell Bad When You Sweat, We Have Something to Tell You. We Now Know Why
63. 17 July
64. Geoscientists Believe They’ve Discovered Why We’re Alone in the Universe. The Key Is Our Planet
65. Japan Has an Impressive New 40-Foot Robot. Its Mission: Repairing Train Tracks

June 2024

1. 16 June
2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Hates One-on-One Meetings, With One Exception: 'If They Ask Me, I’ll Drop Everything'