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Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Jamaica yesterday with winds at 185 miles per hour, putting it firmly in Category 5. The storm is responsible for at least seven deaths as of Wednesday morning.Ahead of landfall, the National Hurricane Center issued a blunt warning for 2.8 million Jamaicans on Tuesday: “THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! TAKE COVER NOW!”The capitals and exclamation points are warranted. Hurricane Melissa is an extraordinary storm, even among the many massive, fast-growing, devastating cyclones that have been erupting in the Atlantic Ocean in recent years.Already, it’s the…
Prediction market Polymarket is getting ready to make its way back into the US in the next few weeks, and Bloomberg says the company plans to focus mainly on sports betting. People familiar with the plans, who asked not to be named because the information is confidential, said the first trades will likely happen by the end of November, although the platform will not be open to everyone right away. If the timing holds, Polymarket could take advantage of the busiest stretch of US football and basketball. As of now, neither Polymarket nor the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has responded…
Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand. However, these tokens quickly become expensive to store and compute with as conversations with end users grow longer. When a user chats with an AI for lengthy periods, this challenge can cause the AI to forget things the user has already told it and get information muddled, a problem some call “context rot.” The new methods developed by DeepSeek (and published in its latest paper) could help to overcome this issue. Instead of storing words…
India’s free digital payments revolution has upended how money moves — but not how fintechs make it. Now, Flipkart’s fintech arm Super.money is partnering with Kotak811, the digital offering of one of India’s top commercial banks, Kotak Mahindra Bank, to change that, bundling UPI payments, savings, and secured credit into a single account aimed at turning usage into profit. The partnership aims to issue about 2 million secured credit cards in the next 12 months — roughly 60 percent to first-time borrowers — and 5 million within 2 years. Super.money, which already serves 10 million active users, expects the Kotak…
Telefónica has installed nodes in over 5,000 municipalities, with nearly 3,000 featuring high-performance nodes operating in the 3.5 GHz band In sum – what to know: Nationwide 5G – Telefónica’s 5G service now spans 5,700 municipalities, covering more than 94% of Spain’s population through a combination of 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz bands. 5G SA leadership – The operator’s 5G SA network enhances speed, latency, and features like network slicing and edge computing for business and public-sector applications. Rural and urban strength – Telefónica’s dual-band strategy improves both high-speed performance and deep coverage, including rural and indoor environments. Spanish telco…