Apple has added a new ‘Repair Assistant’ to iOS 18, the latest update for compatible iPhones, to better help users manage the original parts used when repairing their phone. First announced in April, MacRumors He has since discovered more details about the tool. With ‘Repair Assistant’, users can now pair original parts, such as a…
In this episode, we welcome Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, a nine-time best-selling author, keynote speaker, and digital futurist. Starting the conversation, Brian shares the inspiration behind his latest book, “Mindshift“, and emphasizes the importance of empathy and a truly customer-centric mindset. Through examples from Amazon, Disney, and IKEA, Brian illustrates how…
In a scene that could be straight out of a Pixar movie, two adorable robots crawled across a simulated moon surface in search of water. One rover even looks a bit like WALL-E. However, the excursion is not for entertainment. It’s a recent simulation at DLR (the German space agency) that tries to help the…
European manufacturers face a two-pronged attack from China that has German industry associations warning of deindustrialization: on the one hand, artificially cheap Chinese goods are flooding Europe and, on the other, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to abruptly cut off access to critical inputs such as rare earths and semiconductors. Alarm intensified in October when…
Our staff’s favorite books of the year reflected on the role of science in some of society’s most pressing problems, from artificial intelligence to childhood trauma to river restoration. Did we miss your favorite? Let us know at feedback@sciencenews.org. rehabilitation Walter ShoshanaSimon and Schuster | $29.99 In a journalist’s exposé of America’s drug treatment centers,…
The following article originally appeared in Gradient flow and is republished here with the author’s permission. We are experiencing a peculiar moment in the development of AI. On the one hand, the demonstrations are spectacular: agents who reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs from a text messageand research tools that…
A world leader in export and production of agricultural products is India. Except for basmati rice and fruits, meat, dairy products and processed foods are also included in the country’s export basket. To promote and facilitate such exports in a simple manner, the government has created the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority…
The United States is in the midst of a botulism outbreak linked to a brand of premium infant formula. Dozens of babies have been affected as of November 19. All of the reported cases of crippling bacterial infection occurred between August and November and have been linked to powdered infant formula produced by ByHeart, according…
Math operations and closed-book data retrieval shared paths with memorization, dropping from 66 to 86 percent of performance after editing. The researchers found that arithmetic was particularly fragile. Even when the models generated identical chains of reasoning, they failed in the calculation step after low-curvature components were removed. Figure 3 from the article “From memorization…
Amazon has lowered the price of the AirPods 4 to $69.00 for Black Friday, from $129.00. This is now a new all-time low price for the headphones, beating the previous low price on Amazon by about $10. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner of some of these providers. When you click a link and make…