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An IT specialist using the nickname Nomad figured out why his parents' Wi-Fi was slow: the culprit was a Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker, which sent more than 1 TB…
Read the newsThe Animator tool turns a text prompt into a whiteboard-style drawn video: it writes the script itself, draws the frames, voices the text, and animates icons at the moment their…
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Scientists tested brazzein as a sugar substitute in ice cream: in 101 adults with MASLD, the rise in glucose after the sugar-free servings was about half as large.
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The band is releasing 170 copies of the Marrow Deep record with powder from real mastodon teeth that a fan gave them about 20 years ago. The edition can be…
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More than 90% of the data capacity between Europe and Asia runs through cables under the Red Sea. Google and Meta are moving part of their live traffic to an…
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On October 12, 2011, Dennis Ritchie was found dead in Berkeley Heights. He created the C language and, together with Ken Thompson, took part in creating Unix.
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Andrej Karpathy returned to his April post on X: the gap in understanding of model capabilities is not narrowing but turning into a sharp funnel, from billions barely familiar with…
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On October 11, 1975, the first season of the sketch show, then called NBC's Saturday Night, premiered on NBC. The premiere was hosted by George Carlin, with Billy Preston and…
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Three experiments with 1,222 participants showed that while the assistant is available, people solve tasks more accurately, but once it is taken away, accuracy and persistence drop sharply.
Read the newsThe new 740-million-parameter model runs locally, and a meeting notebook has been built on it: it turns short jottings into detailed notes and keeps the audio with the transcript on…
Read the newsPixar spent four years making "Toy Story": 1,560 frames on Silicon Graphics and Sun machines, around 400 models, RenderMan rendering, and a farm of 117 SPARC 20 machines.
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Researchers proposed converting ready-made language models to work with UTF-8 bytes. This takes less than 1% of a typical pretraining budget, and the quality of the byte versions is close…
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