Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less compute and is tens of times faster than current methods
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New Weather AI Promises Faster, Low-Cost Forecasting Without Supercompute...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM's Away Message to create better social boundaries around people's time, as people treat the apps like live chats
The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries. — In the beginning, there was AOL Instant Messenger.
Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that lets users set status updates that appear on tweets or on profiles
Status updates could appear on tweets or on profiles — Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed “Vibe.” Tweets: @wongmjane , @trustthedrip , @caseynewt...
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
here's how it works Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Work From Borg — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology … Tristan Greene / TNW : Facebook's Metaverse is just...
Verizon Media says it is planning personalized features for Yahoo Mail, and around 500K users watched NFL streams in the Yahoo Mail app in tests in Q4 2020
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider : Tweets: @michaelbarthel , @carnage4life , @caseynewton , @sarthakgh , @larakiara , @digitalshields , @reckless , @hkanji , and @jason_kint See also Mediagazer Tweet...
Verizon Media says it is planning personalized features for Yahoo Mail, and around 500K users watched NFL streams in the Yahoo Mail app in tests in Q4 2020
- Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan tells Insider the unit is preparing a “mega” product launch in the coming weeks. Tweets: @michaelbarthel , @caseynewton , @sarthakgh , @jason_kint , @hkanji , @larak...
Microsoft rebrands Bing Ads as Microsoft Advertising, says it will introduce more advertising products with built-in AI over the next year
The evolution of Microsoft Advertising Rebecca Stewart / The Drum : Bing Ads rebrands to Microsoft Advertising Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Bing Ads Becomes ‘Microsoft Advertising,’ Rolls Out New Pro...
As AOL Instant Messenger shuts down today after 20 years, readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging
Ars readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging. — Today, America Online Instant Messenger, better known by its acronym, AIM, went dark after more than two decades of faithful service.
AOL says it is shuttering its Alto email service on December 10
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web :