While the Clovis points needed frequent sharpening and broke easily, the hunters were surprised at how well they functioned as butchering tools. They gained a greater appreciation for the ingenuity of their Stone Age counterparts and were listed as co-authors on a paper published earlier this year describing the results of the experiment. Target practice ..
Tag : Features
Dialog box finally allows the creation of a passkey on a security key. The dueling dialogs in this example are by no means unique to macOS. Too many cooks in the kitchen “Most try to funnel you into a vendor’s sync passkey option, and don’t make it clear how you can use other things,” Brown ..
It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular orders to return to office that, for many, threaten to disrupt work-life balance. But in 2024, a potentially critical mass of tech workers seemed to ..
So here’s to you, Stardew Valley. You were one of the brightest parts of my 2024, and a game that I already know I’ll return to for years. — Lee Hutchinson Grounded Credit: Xbox Game Studios Obsidian; Windows, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation My favorite discovery this year has probably been Grounded, a Microsoft-published, Obsidian Entertainment-developed survival crafting ..
That’s about all I need from a “mix up your takeout and use the right apps” app, one made mostly for me, my spouse, and nearby friends and visitors. Pretty much anything you’d find useful while sitting down at a spreadsheet, you can also make useful through a little phone webapp. Joyful overkill I went ..
Microsoft Windows AI is watching A screenshot of Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature in action. Credit: Microsoft In an era where many people already feel like they have no privacy due to tech encroachments, Microsoft dialed it up to an extreme degree in May. That’s when Microsoft unveiled a controversial Windows 11 feature called “Recall” that ..
The Raspberry Pi 5 inside its official case. Credit: Andrew Cunningham The Raspberry Pi 5 inside its official case. Credit: Andrew Cunningham We read about Andrew’s experience with a pair of sub-$200 desktop PCs, but this story is what started it all. The spec sheet looked promising enough, with support for two 4K displays running ..
Editor’s note: Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything too major, please note this list does include a few specific references to several of the listed films that some might consider spoiler-y. This was the year that Marvel Studios hit the pause button on its deluge of blockbuster superhero movies, after rather ..
This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the total number of tokens. Suppose a 10-token prompt requires 414,720 attention operations. Then: Processing a 100-token prompt will require 45.6 million attention operations. Processing a 1,000-token prompt will require 4.6 billion attention operations. Processing a 10,000-token prompt will require 460 billion attention operations. ..
As you crisscross the map, you also invariably stumble on a seemingly endless array of optional sidequests, mysteries, and “fieldwork,” which you keep track of in a dynamically updated journal. While there’s an attempt at a plot justification for each of these optional fetch quests, the ones I tried ended up being much less compelling ..