Apple has a new iPhone member - gone is the SE, say hello to the iPhone 16e. "e" for "economical"? Not if you're in Europe, where the phone starts from €700 - $599 if you're in the US. The iPhone 16e has an A18 chip, 8GB of RAM, a 6.1-inch display, and a single 48MP camera on the back -...

Making Sense of Life Without Her: On Chantal Akerman About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a...

This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our...

Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was in the right. The truth...

For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, Meta, claims that training models...

Rivian’s cost-cutting measures have gotten it a lot closer to profitability, but the company is warning that 2025 could still be a challenging year — especially because of the whorl of uncertainty caused by the new Trump administration. The company announced Thursday its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results, and along with it, shared plans to deliver between 46,000 and...

PostdocNet represents several thousand postdocs at the Max Planck institutes and provides opportunities for professional development and community building.Credit: Swen Pfoertner/AlamyA year into my first postdoc, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, I saw a call to join the steering group of the research institute’s PostdocNet as its financial officer. PostdocNet represents the...

Police in Israel are investigating reports of explosions involving three buses in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.Police described the incident as a "suspected terror attack", adding that "large police forces are at the scenes, searching for suspects". Footage on social media shows at least one bus on fire in a parking lot, with a large plume of smoke rising...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- After a winter storm brought snow to parts of Central Virginia on Wednesday, many may wonder how snowfall is officially measured. According to 8News Meteorologist Matt DiNardo, to accurately measure snow, people will need a snowboard made from a thick sheet of plywood, usually 16 inches by 16 inches or larger, but always made in a...