Employees entering Intel's advanced PG8 foundry on the Malaysian island of Penang must take elaborate safety precautions. First, staff don blue shoe coverings, followed by a hairnet, plastic hood, facemask, bunny suit, latex gloves, and eye goggles. Finally, plastic boots are placed over those already-covered shoes with a special strap tucked into the wearer's socks to "ground" them. For it's not just a stray hair or skin flake that can be deadly to Intel's latest artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor chips--even the static shock from an unsuspecting pinky can measure 10,000 volts and fry their delicate circuitry. "Static is a unit killer," says Phynthamilkumaran Siea Dass, Intel's director of assembly test manufacturing in Penang, as he leads TIME through interlocked doors into PG8's cleanroom.

This article presents a comprehensive dataset featuring ten distinct hen breeds, sourced from various regions, capturing the unique characteristics and traits of each breed. The dataset encompasses Bielefeld, Blackorpington, Brahma, Buckeye, Fayoumi, Leghorn, Newhampshire, Plymouthrock, Sussex, and Turken breeds, offering a diverse representation of poultry commonly bred worldwide. A total of 1010 original JPG images were meticulously collected, showcasing the physical attributes, feather patterns, and distinctive features of each hen breed. These images were subsequently standardized, resized, and converted to PNG format for consistency within the dataset. The compilation, although unevenly distributed across the breeds, provides a rich resource, serving as a foundation for research and applications in poultry science, genetics, and agricultural studies. This dataset holds significant potential to contribute to various fields by enabling the exploration and analysis of unique characteristics and genetic traits across different hen breeds, thereby supporting advancements in poultry breeding, farming, and genetic research.

Intel's new 14th-gen Core chip, Meteor Lake, is designed as much for Intel as it is for you. But a doubling of graphics performance and a new AI engine helps cater to consumers seeking new features. Let's be clear, though: Meteor Lake was not designed with CPU performance in mind. Intel executives describe Meteor Lake as offering the performance of the current 13th-gen chip, Raptor Lake, but at half the power -- aided by new low-voltage efficiency cores (E-cores) that are new to the platform. Even the way Intel assigns CPU tasks has been flipped on its head, pushing them first towards the lowest-power E-cores, then migrating them to the more power-hungry performance cores if need be. Intel unveiled its new Meteor Lake platform in an offsite press event in Penang, Malaysia, though the company will talk more about Meteor Lake at its Intel Innovation conference in San Jose this week. At Intel's Intel Innovation conference in San Jose, Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger added two more details: that Meteor Lake will launch on Dec. 14, and it will be branded as the Core Ultra. Acer appeared on stage to show off its own Meteor Lake laptop, and Intel used MSI-branded laptops in Malaysia.

I recently downloaded an AI (artificial intelligence) program to understand my likes so that it could send me the right recommendations. I love to read technical and medical fiction. I love to visit the Perdana Botanical Garden and ride on the Funicular Railway on Penang Hill. I like sci-fi and biographical movies." I then queried the algorithm to check which words or phrases it did not understand. The program processed the pointers, digested the data, and reverted with a single query: "What is love?" If that makes some of us smile, it may also make some of us sneer. That's the para dox of AI -- there are as many people who "love" it as there are ones who don't. On the anti-AI side are people like Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In 2018 at the US National Governors Association, he said AI posed a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation. On the pro-AI side, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video calling such negative talk "pretty irresponsible".