Shure MV6 Review: A clean looking Gaming Mic
Getting started is as easy as plug and play, but you need the software to dive into any setting. I'm not a fan of the Motiv Mix software that is recommended on the box. Before I could download it, Shure required my full name, city and state, zip code, and email address for software updates, which seemed unnecessary. The...
This Map Shows How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
THIS ARTICLE is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Dry conditions in Southern California in early January 2025 set the stage for a series of wind-driven wildfires that killed thousands of homes and other buildings in the Los Angeles area. Ming Pan , a hydrologist at the University of California-San Diego's Center for Western Weather and...
Los Angeles will remain under fire risk until next week
Devastating wildfires continued to burn across the Los Angeles metro area on Friday, prompting mandatory evacuations and school closures in the area. Next week promises little chance of relief; conditions will remain favorable for both the growth of wildfires there and for new blazes to spark, as the gusty wind remains amid very dry conditions. Officials reported five major...
The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another celestial spectacle is coming: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the closest point of its orbit to the sun—on January 13. , we will also see it at its closest point to Earth, and it could be the brightest comet in 2025, during which no other comet will...
VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack
AI companies around the world will raise more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. That's almost a third of the total VC dollars invested in 2024. That's a lot. money funneling to many AI companies. The AI industry has grown so much in...
How OpenAI bots destroyed this seven-man company’s website ‘like a DDoS attack’
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. This looks like a distributed denial of service attack. They soon discovered that the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was constantly trying to destroy all the huge sites. "We have over 65,000 products, every product has a page," Tomchuk told TechCrunch. "Each...
Snappy gets the initial Covver that rewards for sex to play the player
It is now widely accepted that customers and employees who receive corporate gifts will appreciate the brand more, and it does not cost much. The market for this has exploded. One such market player, New York-based Snappy, which has generated more than $125 million to date, is now acquiring Covver, the company's merchandise rewards platform. Terms were not disclosed,...
A new OpenAI project listing reveals the company’s robotics plans
OpenAI disbanded the robotics department. Then, brought back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and a newly published job description, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team. In a post at X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI last November to lead hardware from its AR glasses division Meta, said...
Banning TikTok: How both sides made their case to the Supreme Court and what the judges asked for
On Friday, the country's highest court heard arguments on whether to support or block legislation that could effectively ban TikTok in the US. US operations or face a ban in that country. The session, which comes just nine days before the January 19 deadline, is TikTok's final legal decision against the impending ban. TikTok's lawyers say the social network...
Amazon blocks some DEI programs
Amazon is now the latest company to end some of its DEI programs, Bloomberg reports, after Meta announced it would also end its diversity efforts on Friday. An internal memo sent to staff said the company wants to eliminate outdated programs and materials as part of a review of current initiatives. "Instead of having a group of individuals build...
