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Finding a camera that can produce professional-quality photographs but still represents good value for money can be extremely time-consuming. Luckily, Walmart has a fantastic offer that does the hard work for you, knocking a whopping $599.01 off the Sony A7 III .  Any professional-grade camera is going to be an investment, and while the deal is for the body only, the money saved is more than enough to pick up a decent lens to go with it. You will need to hurry, though, as this deal has already changed once since we started writing this (it did originally feature the lens, although at a much higher price). The mirrorless camera can be used for many types of photography , including portraiture, landscapes, Sports and action, but in our testing, we found it worthy of a slot in our guide to the best camera s for astrophotography .  Sony A7 III camera : Was $1,999.00 , now $1,399.99 at Walmart   We have awarded this camera a high rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, praisin...

China says its maglev hyperloop train has broken the world speed record in a test run, reaching a blistering 387 mph (623 km/h). Ultimately, its makers want to build a train more than three times as fast that will break the sound barrier and outpace airplanes. The maglev train, dubbed the T-Flight, was built by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), New Atlas reported. Hyperloop trains work by pushing magnetically levitating pods through tunnels with very little air resistance.  The previous record holder for the fastest maglev train is the L0 Series SCMaglev in Japan, according to JRPass , which can hit a top speed of 375 mph (630 km/h). Related: Future electric cars could go more than 600 miles on a single charge thanks to battery-boosting gel To test the new train, CASIC built a track roughly 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) long in a low-pressure vacuum tube. To reach such high speeds, the trains must encounter almost no friction. So CASIC ...

E lon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service is being used by Sudan’s para Military Rapid Support Forces amid a nationwide internet blackout that humanitarian agencies say is preventing people from accessing essential help during a brutal 10-month civil war. The RSF, which is battling Sudan’s army, has had access to Starlink Technology since August, according to diplomats and a humanitarian official in the Darfur region, one of whom who has been in contact with the RSF while it used the service. The devices have proliferated since Sudan’s internet went down more than a week ago and are being imported through corridors controlled by the RSF via neighboring Chad and South Sudan, the people said. Videos and pictures of RSF soldiers using the Technology have been posted widely on social media in recent days. Bloomberg couldn’t independently verify the images. Fighting that erupted in Sudan in April has killed more than 12,000 people, destroyed the economy and forced 9 million other ...

Each year, the TIME100 Most I NFL uential Companies list recognizes Business es making extraordinary impact around the world. Enter your company here today . As investors were wowed by ChatGPT and the rapid progress made by artificial intelligence in recent years, money poured into the industry. Generative AI and AI-related startups raised nearly $50 billion in 2023, according to Crunchbase, a Business data provider. Already in 2024, share prices for firms that play a role in manufacturing the advanced chips required for the most powerful AI models have skyrocketed, with Nvidia, AMD, and Arm share prices up 27%, 51%, and 82% respectively. So what do investors believe the rest of 2024 holds for AI? Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were among those sharing predictions for the year ahead at the World Governments Summit, an annual event held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where leaders from governments around the world convene to discuss policy, with a focus on the future. Read More:...

Meta Platforms' Oversight Board said on Thursday it would include social media platform Threads under its purview , allowing users to appeal the company's content moderation decisions. The board said, in addition to the 130 million people using Threads, Meta will also be able to refer cases about content on the social media platform. Board members will examine Meta's content decisions based on Instagram's community guidelines, which also apply to Threads. "We believe we can help Threads be more transparent, take a global approach, and respect freedom of expression and other human rights," the Oversight Board said in a blog post. The Oversight Board, which is funded by the social media company but run independently, was created in late 2020 to review Facebook and Instagram's decisions on taking down or leaving up certain content. The board's panel include s academics, rights experts and lawyers that makes rulings on whether to uphold or overt...

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are terrible at remembering things — both between separate conversations and even during the same conversation. But two recent breakthroughs might completely change this. If you talk to a large language model (LLM) like OpenAI's ChatGPT for long enough, it will begin to forget crucial pieces of information — especially if the conversation stretches on for more than 4 million words of input. Its performance then begins to deteriorate rapidly.  Meanwhile, ChatGPT and other LLMs can't retain information between conversations. For example, if you finish one conversation and reboot ChatGPT a week later, the chatbot won't remember anything from the previous exchange.  But two separate teams have potentially found solutions to these memory issues. A team of scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have pinpointed the reason AI forgets things mid-conversation and come up with a method to fix it, while dev...

J eff Bezos unloaded 14 million Amazon.com Inc. shares worth about $2.4 billion, finishing in just nine trading days the plan he disclosed earlier this month to sell up to 50 million shares. The latest transaction, which brings his cash out total to $8.5 billion, took place over three trading days ending Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing. Before his selling spree, the world’s third-richest person hadn’t disposed of company stock since 2021. Bezos, who founded Amazon and owns space exploration company Blue Origin and the Washington Post, hasn’t disclosed plans for the proceeds. He announced on Nov. 2 he was moving to Miami from the Seattle region.  Washington state instituted a 7% capital gains tax in 2022 — something Florida doesn’t have — meaning Bezos’s relocation is likely saving him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. Bezos has a net worth of $191.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Spokespeople for Amazon and Bezos didn’t immediately respond...

Canadian federal police said on Friday their systems were targeted by an "alarming" cyber attack but there was no impact on operations and no known threat to the safety of Canadians. "The situation is evolving quickly but at this time, there is no impact on RCMP operations and no known threat to the safety and security of Canadians," a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters on Friday afternoon. "While a breach of this magnitude is alarming, the quick work and mitigation strategies put in place demonstrate the significant steps the RCMP has taken to detect and prevent these types of threats," the spokesperson added. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they launched a probe into the attack and were trying to determine the extent of the breach, adding there were no known impacts on intelligence services. Further details were not immediately known. The Canadian government said late last month that its foreign affairs dep...

O n Tuesday, speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.  Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, and Jeffries, a New York Democrat, each appointed 12 members to the Task Force, which will be chaired by Representative Jay Obernolte, a California Republican, and co-chaired by Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat. According to the announcement, the Task Force will “produce a comprehensive report that will include guiding principles, forward-looking recommendations and bipartisan policy proposals developed in consultation with committees of jurisdiction.” Read More: The 3 Most Important AI Policy Milestones of 2023 Obernolte—who has a masters in AI from the University of California, Los Angeles and founded the video Game company FarSight Studios—and Lieu—who studied computer Science and political Science at Stanford University—are natural picks to lead the Task Force. Bu...

A lphabet Inc.’s Google said it will pause the image generation of people for Gemini, a powerful artificial intelligence model, after criticism about how it was handling race. “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google said in a post on X on Thursday. “We’re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.” We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement. pic.twitter.com/RfYXSgRyfz — Google Communications (@Google_Comms) February 21, 2024 The misstep comes as Google has increasingly focused on AI after progress by rivals Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI potentially threatened its core internet search Business . Advances in AI have led to concerns that the Technology will enable deepfakes, misinformation and bias.  Earlier this week, Google said it was aware Gemini was offering what it called “inaccuracies i...

T his week Microsoft announced that it would invest €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in Germany over the next two years. The U.S. tech giant will use the money to double the capacity of its artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure in Germany and expand its training programmes, according to Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith. The move follows a similar announcement from November 2023, when Microsoft said it would invest £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) in infrastructure in the U.K. over the next three years. Both countries hailed the investments as significant steps that would permit them to compete on the world stage when it comes to AI. However, the investments are dwarfed by investments made by U.S.-based cloud service providers elsewhere, particularly in the U.S. As AI becomes increasingly economically and militarily important, governments are taking steps to ensure they have control over the technology that they depend on. However, some experts warn that smaller econ...

M eta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, received another accolade to add to his long list of awards on Sunday, when he was recognized with a TIME100 Impact Award for his contributions to the world of artificial intelligence. Ahead of the award ceremony in Dubai, LeCun sat down with TIME to discuss the barriers to achieving “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), the merits of Meta’s open-source approach, and what he sees as the “preposterous” claim that AI could pose an existential risk to the human race. TIME spoke with LeCun on Jan. 26. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. Many people in the tech world today believe that training large language models (LLMs) on more computing power and more data will lead to artificial general intelligence. Do you agree? It’s astonishing how [LLMs] work, if you train them at scale, but it’s very limited. We see today that those systems hallucinate, they don't really understand the real world. They require enormous amounts...