More People Are Returning That Horrid “AI Pin” Than Are Buying It

More People Are Returning That Horrid “AI Pin” Than Are Buying It

Ouch.Humane WasteBy all accounts, the launch of tech startup Humane's AI Pin was an absolute disaster.The $699 gadget, designed to capitalize on AI hype by acting as a personal assistant you can magnetically attach to your lapel, turned out to be a complete flop. Tech YouTuber Marques "MKBHD" Brownlee called it the "worst product" he had ever reviewed. Other reviewers found that it simply wasn't able to do much of anything, with Humane vastly exaggerating the tiny device's capabilities. Oh, and did we mention that its battery life was laughable?In case you're wondering, things are still looking terrible for the venture.…
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See how the cast of ‘Outlander’ have changed since their first appearance on the show

See how the cast of ‘Outlander’ have changed since their first appearance on the show

The first episode of "Outlander" premiered on August 9, 2014, exactly 10 years ago.Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitríona Balfe) are the only original characters still on the show.Many of the cast look a lot different now from when they first joined the series. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. When "Outlander"…
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Intel Scraps Innovation Expo as Cash-Strapped Company Makes Cuts

Intel Scraps Innovation Expo as Cash-Strapped Company Makes Cuts

Intel Corp., which is cutting jobs and costs to preserve its shrinking cash pile, postponed an Innovation event that had been scheduled for next month in San Jose, California. The chipmaker plans to focus on other gatherings, such as webinars, hackathons and the Intel AI Summit, in lieu of the Innovation conference, the company said Friday in an emailed statement. Source link lol
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Uncertainty-Aware Crime Prediction With Spatial Temporal Multivariate Graph Neural Networks

Uncertainty-Aware Crime Prediction With Spatial Temporal Multivariate Graph Neural Networks

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Amazon-Anthropic Merger Investigated by UK Government

Amazon-Anthropic Merger Investigated by UK Government

The U.K. government has launched a preliminary investigation into the partnership between Amazon and Anthropic to see if it will significantly lessen competition. This comes days after a similar probe was announced into Alphabet’s collaboration with the AI startup. In March, Amazon concluded its $4 billion (£3.16 billion) investment in Anthropic, the company behind the Claude LLM family, some of the only viable competitors to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. It was founded by former OpenAI employees, including siblings Daniela and Dario Amodei, who were both execs. In return for the investment, Anthropic committed to using Amazon Web Services as…
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Medical Graph RAG: Towards Safe Medical Large Language Model via Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Medical Graph RAG: Towards Safe Medical Large Language Model via Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2408.04187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a novel graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework specifically designed for the medical domain, called textbf{MedGraphRAG}, aimed at enhancing Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities and generating evidence-based results, thereby improving safety and reliability when handling private medical data. Our comprehensive pipeline begins with a hybrid static-semantic approach to document chunking, significantly improving context capture over traditional methods. Extracted entities are used to create a three-tier hierarchical graph structure, linking entities to foundational medical knowledge sourced from medical papers and dictionaries. These entities are then interconnected to form meta-graphs, which are merged based on semantic…
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Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels

Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels

Oxford University scientists may have solved one of the greatest hindrances of expanding access to solar energy. Scientists from the university’s physics department have created an ultra-thin layer of material that can be applied to the exterior of objects with sunlight access in place of bulky silicon-based solar panels.The ultra-thin and flexible film is made by stacking layers of light-absorbing layers of perovskite that are just over one micron thick. The new materials are also 150 times thinner than a traditional silicon wafer and can produce 5 percent more energy efficiency than traditional, single-layer silicon photovoltaics, according to a statement…
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Katy Perry has released 2 stale songs and is in a ‘career crisis.’ A PR expert says her comeback can still be salvaged — if she does it right

Katy Perry has released 2 stale songs and is in a ‘career crisis.’ A PR expert says her comeback can still be salvaged — if she does it right

Katy Perry has spent the last week begging us to pre-save her new single, "Lifetimes." After the disastrous reception to its predecessor "Woman's World," it's easy to see why she might need to do the extra legwork."It's a career crisis," Eric Schiffer, a PR expert and chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, told Business Insider of the reception to Perry's new music. The onslaught of negative headlines isn't helping Perry reintroduce herself to millennials and establish herself with a new Gen Z audience, either: "It can be a bloodbath to a brand like hers," he said.For a musician in the doghouse,…
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Diffusion Guided Language Modeling

Diffusion Guided Language Modeling

arXiv:2408.04220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current language models demonstrate remarkable proficiency in text generation. However, for many applications it is desirable to control attributes, such as sentiment, or toxicity, of the generated language -- ideally tailored towards each specific use case and target audience. For auto-regressive language models, existing guidance methods are prone to decoding errors that cascade during generation and degrade performance. In contrast, text diffusion models can easily be guided with, for example, a simple linear sentiment classifier -- however they do suffer from significantly higher perplexity than auto-regressive alternatives. In this paper we use a guided diffusion…
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Paramount’s Writedown, Silicon Valley and the Election | Bloomberg Technology

Paramount’s Writedown, Silicon Valley and the Election | Bloomberg Technology

August 9th, 2024, 8:02 PM GMT+0000Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow breaks down why Paramount is up as the Nickelodeon and MTV parent follows Warner Brothers in a big writedown of its cable TV networks. Plus, cybersecurity firm Akamai jumps as the DDOS specialist posts strong numbers amid scrutiny of the cybersecurity sector, and the tech grassroots group Tech4Kamala emerges to back the Vice President's bid for the White House. (Source: Bloomberg) Source link lol
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