Scientists from institutions including Mercator Ocean International in France, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research collaborated to discover that as the planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years, the majority of the excess heat has been absorbed by the oceans.
A recent paper finds that ChatGPT Is consuming a staggering amount of water.
"While a 500ml bottle of water might not seem too much, the total combined water footprint for inference is still extremely large, considering ChatGPT’s billions of users."
The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing. If you look for reasons for why companies do layoffs, the reason is that everybody else is doing it.
Major content creator with 5.7 million followers on TikTok had this to say about our government in Canada. It's particularly interesting to see such a large creator who’s platform isn’t political to speak out like this.
How fake news is created. To protect its market share, Facebook has hired a lobbying firm to demonize TikTok.
A company called Targeted Victory pays people to write op-eds in prominent newspapers; and recruits pay-for-play politicians to hype security threat of the “Communist China”.
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe