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China’s quest to turn the yuan into a global currency isn’t actually driven by domination. It’s about sanctions.
30 May

China’s quest to turn the yuan into a global currency isn’t actually driven by domination. It’s about sanctions.

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China is on a drive to expand the use of the yuan internationally. But Beijing's near-term intent is more about sanctions protection than currency dominance, according to a researcher."China's strategies to develop an alternative financial system are defensive rather than offensive — at least for now," wrote Zoe Liu, a fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, on Wednesday.Beijing's goal now is to minimize any impact from potential sweeping sanctions from the West in "extreme geopolitical scenarios," such as a military conflict over Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, wrote Liu. Her post was published on…
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Google makes it easier to multi-task with minimized in-app Chrome tabs
30 May

Google makes it easier to multi-task with minimized in-app Chrome tabs

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Sometimes, having to open a link from within another app on mobile could be disruptive and take you away from the task you were trying to accomplish. Now an update for Chrome could help keep you focused with the task at hand. When you click on a link within Gmail, for instance, and open a Chrome tab within the app, you can tap on the chevron icon in the toolbar right next to the "x" or the close button to minimize the browser. That turns the open tab into a compact, floating picture-in-picture window that you can drag anywhere on…
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30 May

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates | Mariana Mazzucato

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When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy. Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually.This is…
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Robot, can you say ‘cheese’?
30 May

Robot, can you say ‘cheese’?

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What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? Or a better question, how does it know to get you to smile back? Source link lol
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Ultra fast joins with multi-join | Deephaven
30 May

Ultra fast joins with multi-join | Deephaven

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Deephaven's version 0.28 release brought some cool new features and improvements to client libraries. Perhaps the most exciting is the addition of multi_join to the Deephaven table API. With multi_join, you can accomplish what previously took several lines of code in a single line. Not only that, but it's way faster than the old way of chaining joins together.Multi-join is a new feature that joins three or more tables together. It's faster, much more memory efficient than the only alternative, and works all the same on static and dynamic data.In this blog, we'll compare performance of using multi_join and its…
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TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge
30 May

TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge

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The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or Gemini-1.5 model, has expanded the realm of possibilities with AI agents. While this is quite exciting, the large model size and computational requirements of these models often requires their inference to be performed on the cloud. This can create several challenges for their widespread adoption. First and foremost, uploading data such as video, audio, or text…
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Addressing the EU’s Stricter Standby Power Consumption Standards – EE Times
30 May

Addressing the EU’s Stricter Standby Power Consumption Standards – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Starting in May 2025, most household appliances sold in the EU must have a standby power consumption of less than 300mW, a significant reduction from the current 500mW limit. To help meet these stringent standards, Power Integrations (PI) has released a new application guide (AN-109) for designing small open-frame power supplies. This guide features PI’s LinkSwitch-XT2SR non-isolated flyback switching IC, which boasts up to 90% efficiency and a no-load power consumption of less than 5mW.   As IC power consumption inevitably increases to support more powerful functions, the LinkSwitch-XT2SR ensures overall…
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How Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Work
30 May

How Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Work

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG, pronounced 'rag') works by fetching selective data from a custom knowledge base and integrating it with the output of a language model to provide accurate and up-to-date responses.RAG can be defined as a ChatGPT-like interface that can use your pdfs, documents or databases to answer questions from you. You can use it as a study assistant to understand documents by asking questions about those documents. In this article, we discuss the benefits of using a RAG system and explain its key components. We also detailhow RAG works to enhance the capabilities of large language models by…
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