The best laptop power banks for 2024

The best laptop power banks for 2024

Smaller battery packs are great for refiling phones and tablets, but if you need to keep a laptop juiced up while you’re far from an outlet, you’ll need something larger. For this guide, we tested portable chargers with at least a 20,000mAh (74Wh) capacity, but kept the upper limit below 27,000mAh (99Wh), since that’s about the maximum size allowed by the TSA in carry-on luggage. Some laptop power banks sport extra features like wireless charging or an AC plug so you can power small devices such as a travel printer or an LED lamp. But what all of them have…
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Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly

Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Google’s Search Monopoly

To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary data with competitors and advertisers, and “promptly and fully divest Chrome,” Google’s search engine that controls over half of the US market. The government wants Google to sell Chrome to a buyer it approves, arguing the divesture would “pry open the monopolized markets to competition, remove barriers to entry, and ensure there remain no practices likely to result in unlawful monopolization.”The recommendations are part of a detailed plan…
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Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg says the company’s staff ‘spend more time arguing’ than strategizing about how to beat Airbus: report

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg says the company’s staff ‘spend more time arguing’ than strategizing about how to beat Airbus: report

Boeing's CEO Kelly Ortberg has a message for his staff: Stop fighting and get to work.Ortberg urged employees to "focus on the task at hand" instead of squabbling.The CEO also spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about the impact of his potential tariffs.Boeing's CEO Kelly Ortberg has a stern warning for his staff — stop squabbling and get to work.The Wall Street Journal obtained and verified a recording of Ortberg's remarks at Boeing's hourlong town hall meeting on Wednesday."We spend more time arguing amongst ourselves than thinking about how we're going to beat Airbus," he said at the all-hands meeting, The…
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DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes

DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes

arXiv:2411.11921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DeSiRe-GS, a self-supervised gaussian splatting representation, enabling effective static-dynamic decomposition and high-fidelity surface reconstruction in complex driving scenarios. Our approach employs a two-stage optimization pipeline of dynamic street Gaussians. In the first stage, we extract 2D motion masks based on the observation that 3D Gaussian Splatting inherently can reconstruct only the static regions in dynamic environments. These extracted 2D motion priors are then mapped into the Gaussian space in a differentiable manner, leveraging an efficient formulation of dynamic Gaussians in the second stage. Combined with the introduced geometric regularizations, our method are able…
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HNCSE: Advancing Sentence Embeddings via Hybrid Contrastive Learning with Hard Negatives

HNCSE: Advancing Sentence Embeddings via Hybrid Contrastive Learning with Hard Negatives

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Customize dataset so that Dataloader can apply…

Customize dataset so that Dataloader can apply…

Question: in order to let "DataLoader' from torch.utils.data capable, how should I customize a dataset on my own data? Answer: basically, given a list of Paris of images and text, assigning len and get item method, then the customized dataset can be applied to DataLoader method ? is there any requirement else? Claude responds,You've captured the core concept perfectly! Let me elaborate on the key requirements and nuances of creating a custom PyTorch Dataset: `class MyCustomDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):def init(self, data):self.data = data # List of image-text pairs def __len__(self): return len(self.data) # Total number of samples def __getitem__(self, idx): # Return one…
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KX Aims to Unlock Python’s Potential with PyKX 3.0

KX Aims to Unlock Python’s Potential with PyKX 3.0

(dTosh/Shutterstock) As AI-driven algorithms become increasingly complex, the demand for scalable solutions that integrate powerful analytical engines with machine learning libraries has surged. KX, a performance analytical database for AI, has responded to this need by enhancing PyKX, its Python-first interface for kdb+, with a new hybrid architecture.  PyKX 3.0 merges kdb+’s processing power with Python’s ML capabilities. The company claims that developers can use the platform to build advanced AI-driven applications and analytics without compromising on speed or scalability.  In May 2023, KX had open-sourced PyKX, making its kdb+ time-series database and q programming language accessible to the global…
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Streamline RAG applications with intelligent metadata filtering using Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Streamline RAG applications with intelligent metadata filtering using Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a crucial technique for improving the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated responses. The effectiveness of RAG heavily depends on the quality of context provided to the large language model (LLM), which is typically retrieved from vector stores based on user queries. The relevance of this context directly impacts the model’s ability to generate accurate and contextually appropriate responses. One effective way to improve context relevance is through metadata filtering, which allows you to refine search results by pre-filtering the vector store based on custom metadata attributes. By narrowing down the search space to the…
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