AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

We are happy to share that our book AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder across online booksellers. The publication date is September 24, 2024. If you have enjoyed reading our newsletter and would like to support our work, please preorder the book via Amazon, Bookshop, or your favorite bookseller. We get two recurring questions about the book: In an area as fast moving as AI, how long can a book stay relevant? How similar is the book to the newsletter?The answer to both questions is the same. We know that book publishing moves at a slower timescale than AI. So the…
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Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech

Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech

In 2020, Tesla even wrote in a filing to the US Federal Communications Commission that it would be implementing ultra-wideband in its keyless entry systems, and that the ability to far more precisely measure the distance of a key fob or smartphone from a car would—or at least could—prevent its vehicles from being stolen via relay attacks. “The distance estimate is based on a Time of Flight measurement, which is immune to relay attacks,” Tesla's filing read. That document, first turned up by the Verge, led to widespread reports and social media comments suggesting that the upcoming ultra-wideband version of…
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Focus on Low-Resolution Information: Multi-Granular Information-Lossless Model for Low-Resolution Human Pose Estimation

Focus on Low-Resolution Information: Multi-Granular Information-Lossless Model for Low-Resolution Human Pose Estimation

arXiv:2405.12247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real-world applications of human pose estimation, low-resolution input images are frequently encountered when the performance of the image acquisition equipment is limited or the shooting distance is too far. However, existing state-of-the-art models for human pose estimation perform poorly on low-resolution images. One key reason is the presence of downsampling layers in these models, e.g., strided convolutions and pooling layers. It further reduces the already insufficient image information. Another key reason is that the body skeleton and human kinematic information are not fully utilized. In this work, we propose a Multi-Granular Information-Lossless (MGIL) model…
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Microsoft marches on in Asia with $2.2B AI and cloud investment in Malaysia – SiliconANGLE

Microsoft marches on in Asia with $2.2B AI and cloud investment in Malaysia – SiliconANGLE

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will invest $2.2 billion in Malaysia over a four-year period, building a new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country and partnering with the government to open a National AI Center. “We are committed to supporting Malaysia’s AI transformation and ensure it benefits all Malaysians,” said Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella. “Our investments in digital infrastructure and skilling will help Malaysian businesses, communities and developers apply the latest technology to drive inclusive economic growth and innovation across the country.” The company has recently announced a slew of major investments around the world, mostly…
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Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, New Surface Laptops and More Pre-Build 2024 Announcements

Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, New Surface Laptops and More Pre-Build 2024 Announcements

Before Microsoft’s Build 2024 developer conference kicked off today, the company made a number of initial announcements during a special hour-long keynote event on May 20th hosted at its Redmond campus in Washington. These announcements included: Copilot+ PCs. Copilot and GPT-4o. Recall. Surface Pro 11. Surface Laptop 7. AI-optimized creative apps. TechRepublic takes a closer look at all the major announcements made at the Surface and Copilot AI event on May 20, 2024. Copilot+ PCs The first major announcement to come from the keynote was the launch of Microsoft’s new category of personal computers: Copilot+ PCs. These PCs come with…
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A former model accused Diddy in a new lawsuit of sexually assaulting and drugging her in 2003. He’s now facing 5 suits.

A former model accused Diddy in a new lawsuit of sexually assaulting and drugging her in 2003. He’s now facing 5 suits.

A former model filed a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing embattled music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs of sexually assaulting her in 2003.Crystal McKinney, according to a lawsuit obtained by Business Insider, met Combs at a 2003 Men's Fashion Week event in Manhattan when she was 22. According to the lawsuit, McKinney was introduced to Combs by a fashion designer who believed Combs could "advance her modeling career."The suit, filed in New York's Southern District Court, alleged Combs had been "coming on to plaintiff in a sexually suggestive manner" at the restaurant they were dining at."Combs also plied plaintiff with alcohol throughout the…
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The Arabic Noun System Generation

The Arabic Noun System Generation

arXiv:2405.11014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we show that the multiple-stem approach to nouns with a broken plural pattern allows for greater generalizations to be stated in the morphological system. Such an approach dispenses with truncating/deleting rules and other complex rules that are required to account for the highly allomorphic broken plural system. The generation of inflected sound nouns necessitates a pre-specification of the affixes denoting the sound plural masculine and the sound plural feminine, namely uwna and aAt, in the lexicon. The first subsection of section one provides an evaluation of some of the previous analyses of…
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Imec raises €2.5B for advanced chip tech R&D pilot line

Imec raises €2.5B for advanced chip tech R&D pilot line

Global R&D hub Imec Flanders today announced at its annual Imec Technology Forum in Antwerp (ITF World 2024) that it has raised a €2.5 billion investment to establish a new R&D pilot line for advanced chip technology and systems-on-chip.  Imec is the world's largest independent research centre in nanoelectronics and digital technology. The NanoIC pilot line is part of the EU Chips Act's vision to accelerate innovation in Europe, stimulate economic growth, and strengthen the European chip industry's ecosystem.  The EU Chips Act focuses on four strategic pilot lines, spread across several European member states to bridge the gap between…
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MediaTek launches powerful Dimensity 9300+ chip

MediaTek launches powerful Dimensity 9300+ chip

MediaTek has unveiled the Dimensity 9300+, its newest addition to the Dimensity series of mobile chips.The Dimensity 9300+ features enhanced clock speeds and is engineered to boost the processing of on-device generative AI. It supports a wide range of large language models (LLMs) and provides several other performance improvements compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 9300.JC Hsu, MediaTek's Corporate Senior Vice President, emphasized, "The Dimensity 9300+ will enhance our ability to foster a vibrant generative AI application ecosystem through extensive LLM support and on-device LoRA Fusion capabilities. It delivers remarkable enhancements and speeds for LLM inference, processing tokens much more…
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