The Ethereum Foundation has dissolved its Protocol Support team as part of a broader restructuring that recently cut about 20% of the nonprofit’s workforce. Summary Ethereum Foundation dissolved Protocol Support after five years coordinating upgrades, developer meetings and fellowship programs worldwide. Several team members lost their roles following the Foundation’s broader 20% workforce reduction announced…
Back to Article List Open cluster M92 is a great object to study with binoculars or a telescope, near the center of the cross-shaped pattern of stars in Cygnus. Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 12: Titan sits near Saturn Tonight’s target is already high in the…
The lightweight robot takes inspiration from diving birds that can both swim and fly (Picture: Raphael Zufferey and Victor Pennacino/Cover Images) A new ultra-lightweight robot can swim underwater – before emerging to fly through the air like a bird. The flapping-wing aerial-aquatic vehicle (FAAV), created by researchers at EPFL in Switzerland and the Massachusetts Institute…
Creating machine learning models that generate accurate results is one thing, but it’s quite another to ensure model interpretability — the ability to understand why the ML models that power AI tools behave as they do. Without interpretability, AI is unsuitable for use cases where understanding and explaining system behavior is important. The inherent…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on July 6 that Xbox would lay off 3,200 people, offloading at least four gaming studios, and said that Xbox Game Pass hasn’t grown as expected, contributing to an unhealthy business. Nevertheless, Microsoft announced on July 7 that Xbox Game Pass would be getting a handful of new games in July, including the…
A “credible external security threat” targeting Progress Software’s ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers (SZC) – the on-premises, customer-managed server components where organizations store files shared via this popular enterprise platform – has spurred the company to disable access to ShareFile accounts that are using them. The warning was sent to customers via email on July 10,…
Pokemon Go‘s global Go Fest has arrived, and this year’s event is a big one. For the first time in the game’s history, all players who log in during the festivities will receive access to a new Special Research that leads to an encounter with the mythical Pokemon Zeraora. That’s not all that players can…
The President of the Republic, Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, Minister of National Defense, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, presided on Sunday over a meeting of the Council of Ministers. The session was dedicated to presentations concerning the national digital services portal, monitoring the implementation of cooperation agreements with Niger and Chad, the development of the…
Key Takeaways OpenX Network is live and has finished the core OS migration and wrapped up studio architecture. The Governing Portal has been improved with governance tools and forum to further drive engagement with the user. The network will be promoting strategic partnerships in the coming week aimed at mainstream AI builders and users. OpenX…
There might be a way to geoengineer El Niño so that it wreaks less havoc, scientists say. Adding aerosols to the atmosphere over a particular patch of the Pacific Ocean can increase and brighten clouds in the region, creating a cooling effect. New computer simulations show this can trigger atmospheric changes that might reduce the…