NASA and IBM are building an ai model for weather and climate applications, combining their knowledge and skills in earth sciences and ai. They say the basic model (more on that in a moment) should offer “significant advantages over existing technology.” Current ai models, such as GraphCast and FourCastNet, are already generating weather forecasts faster than traditional weather models. As IBM points out, these are ai emulators rather than basic models. ai emulators can make weather predictions based on training data sets, but they have no applications beyond that.
The model can better predict weather events, inferring high-resolution information based on low-resolution data and “identifying conditions ripe for everything from airplane turbulence to wildfires.”
-Mat Smith
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Evernote officially limits free users to 50 notes and a measly notebook
“We recognize that these changes may cause you to reconsider your relationship with Evernote.”
Evernote's strict new plan will restrict new and existing accounts to 50 notes and one notebook. Existing free customers who exceed those limits can still use their notes, but will need to upgrade to a paid plan to create new ones. Evernote's premium plans include a $15 monthly personal plan with 10GB of monthly uploads. It's an expensive subscription for cloud storage dedicated to notes. When Evernote's parent company, Bending Spoons, moved its operations from the US and Chile to Europe, it said the app “hadn't been profitable for years.” That push in the socks.
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US government suspends Meta briefings on foreign influence campaigns
Officials have “paused” advice for Meta.
Meta says the government “paused” briefings related to foreign interference in the election in July, eliminating a key source of information for the company. During a call with reporters, Meta's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, declined to speculate on the government's motivations, but the timing coincides with a decision that restricted the Biden Administration's contact with social media companies.
The disclosure comes as the company ramps up efforts to prepare for multiple elections in 2024 and inevitable attempts to manipulate political conversations on Facebook. The company said in its latest CIB report that China is now the third most common source of coordinated inauthentic behavior on its platform, behind Russia and Iran.
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Google Messages now lets you choose your own chat bubble colors
But this has nothing to do with messaging iPhones and all that drama.
Google is rolling out a number of updates to the Messages app, including customizable text bubbles and background colors. So if you really want, you can have blue bubbles on your Android messaging app. You can even have a different color for each chat, which could help you avoid saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. But none of this means anything to iPhone users and has nothing to do with the long-running back-and-forth over text messaging compatibility.
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How OpenAI's ChatGPT has changed the world in just one year
The generative ai chatbot has helped fuel a multi-billion dollar industry.
ChatGPT exploded in popularity, from niche online curiosities to 100 million monthly active users – the fastest user base growth in the history of the Internet. In less than a year, it has earned the backing of Silicon Valley's largest companies, as well as being embedded in countless applications, from academia and the arts to marketing, medicine, gaming and government. ChatGPT is just about everywhere. Engadget's Andrew Tarantola looks at the brilliant first year of OpenAI's chatbot.
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