Every heat wave Europe is embroiled in an argument over whether more air conditioning would save lives or simply worsen the climate crisis. Energy-efficient cooling will help, but scientists are also hard at work on new types of coolant to end our reliance on refrigerants, often potent greenhouse gases in their own right.
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As San Francisco sellers start trading houses for AI stock, you might wonder whether someone out there is trying to run the housing crisis all over again.
tomatocactus:
“How can we make this bubble MORE like the housing crisis” is not a question I expected people to ask
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The Doom developer is reportedly the latest Xbox studio to be hit by Microsoft’s ongoing layoffs, prompting a new variant on an age-old question.
Tal Rico:
Can Microsoft run (the studio that makes) Doom? Apparently not very well.
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Reddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity, a problem that is definitely not, in any way, shape, or form, a problem of Reddit’s own making.
Bread19:
Let’s use AI to filter out AI because we sold our content to AI and AI is reading all the AI
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It follows last year’s EXP 15 “design concept,” and follows Bentley tradition by taking its name from the El Torcal de Antequera natural landmark in Andalusia, Spain. Bentley’s CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser says it “may just be the most considered car in our history.” We’ll find out more on September 23rd.
Tomorrow you can buy a Tom Ford jacket worn by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at auction, but you might have stiff competition in the bidding.
Blernsball:
NVIDIA is going to lend OpenAI 50K to buy this, then OpenAI will lease it to Coreweave for 10K a month on a two year contract. Coreweave pledges to buy twenty more jackets from NIVIDA in the future. In return, NVIDIA will lease the jacket from Coreweave for 8K a month over 5 years.
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The new affordable earbuds will launch alongside the Phone 4B, but WinFuture has published what appear to be official promo shots of the buds in all four colors: yellow, pink, white, and black. Will we see a return of the odd charging case microphone Nothing introduced in the more premium Ear 3?

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But I’d only recommend it if you bake at least a loaf a week, and ideally more.




