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Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at all federal government buildings and is also expected to sell off the General Services Administration‘s (GSA) newly bought EVs. GSA, which manages all federal government-owned buildings, also operates the federal buildings’ EV chargers. Federally owned EVs and federal employee-owned personal EVs are charged on those 8,000 charging ports. The Verge reports it’s been told by a source that plans will be officially announced internally next week, and it’s seen an email that GSA has already sent to regional offices about the plans: “As GSA has worked…

Benchmarks for the iPhone 16e have appeared onlinePerformance and RAM details are revealedThe handset goes on sale next Friday, February 28While Apple has now unveiled the iPhone 16e, it won’t actually be available to buy for another week – and ahead of that February 28 date, benchmarks have appeared online that tell us a bit more about the newest iPhone.As spotted by MySmartPrice, the information apparently revealed here includes the impact of the reduced GPU core count on the A18 processor: it has a 4-core GPU, rather than the 5-core GPU on the iPhone 16 flagships.That means a drop of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Historically, access to geothermal energy has hinged on real estate’s famously three most important factors: location, location, and location. Because conventional geothermal power plants require hot, permeable rocks and plenty of underground fluid, use of the technology has been limited mostly to places with recent volcanism, such as Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Kenya, El Salvador, Iceland, and the western United States. Over the past 50 years, however, techniques originally developed for oilfields and adapted for “enhanced geothermal systems” (EGS) have offered the promise of tapping deep reserves of natural heat across a broader swath of…

The C-Mix Ultra tines on the Cenius Ultra really come into their own in variable soil conditions. The release force can be infinitely adjusted between 500 kg and 800 kg to ensure optimum adaptation to differing soil types.The tines can move upwards more quickly on light soils with large stones at the lower release force setting of 500 kg. This protects the frame of the mounted cultivator from excessive loads and any stones remain under the surface. Where there is compaction, or on heavy clay soils, the pressure can be increased up to 800 kg. This ensures a consistent, reliable…

Crashes and instability issues relating to RTX 50-series GPUs continue to rage on, and Nvidia still doesn’t have a fix ready for the public. Manuel provided an update on the Nvidia forums, noting that the RTX 50 series issues are still being investigated. The Nvidia staff member clarified that they don’t know if the fixes will arrive in driver form or in VBIOS form.The update addressed users in the Nvidia 572.47 driver feedback thread complaining about the incessant black screen and crashing issues occurring on the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and even some RTX 40-series GPUs. To everyone’s disappointment, the…

Bluebird Bio, a company that steered three gene therapies to FDA approval but struggled to commercialize them, has found the cash it needs to put those therapies on stronger financial footing by reaching a deal to sell itself to two private equity firms for about $29 million. Carlyle and SK Capital Partners have agreed to pay $3 in cash for each share of Bluebird, the biotech announced Friday. That price is a 57% discount to the company’s closing stock price Thursday. The deal is heavily backloaded. Bluebird shareholders could receive $66.8 million more, but only if the company’s gene therapies…

The Maryland House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to allow a state board to extend its mandate for lowering prescription drug costs to all residents, not just those employed by government agencies. As a result, the initiative now goes to the state Senate for approval, although the timing is unclear. Nonetheless, the 98-to-34 vote was cheered by consumer advocates who hope the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which is designed to function much like a state utility commission, will usher in era of lower medicine prices for everyone who lives in Maryland. “It’s time to act to make drugs more affordable…

The collaboration is expected to enhance multiple facets of Waterdrop’s services, including sales support, quality assurance, risk management, and product innovation. The company’s AI-powered solutions are designed to streamline insurance processes, improve customer engagement, and optimize service quality. As part of the integration, Waterdrop’s AI Insurance Expert has been upgraded to support multimodal interactions, including voice and text, enabling complex dialogues and strategic sales assistance. The AI system is capable of autonomously managing voice communications and consultations for various insurance products, such as accident and medical coverage. According to Waterdrop, these AI-driven interactions can last up to 50 minutes, significantly…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Very small language models (SLMs) can outperform leading large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks, according to a new study by Shanghai AI Laboratory. The authors show that with the right tools and test-time scaling techniques, an SLM with 1 billion parameters can outperform a 405B LLM on complicated math benchmarks. The ability to deploy SLMs in complex reasoning tasks can be very useful as enterprises are looking for new ways to use these new models in different environments and applications.…

Rivian (RIVN) hit its goal of achieving a positive gross profit in the fourth quarter. The EV maker released its fourth-quarter earnings after the market closed on Thursday. Here’s a full breakdown of Rivian’s Q4 2024 financials. Rivian achieves first gross profit in Q4 2024 earnings Yesterday, in our Q4 earnings preview, we noted that the biggest thing investors will be looking for is if Rivian will achieve a positive gross profit as it has guided all year. Rivian hit its goal, posting a gross profit of $170 million in the fourth quarter, a $776 million improvement from Q4 2023.…