Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy
20 Jul

Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy

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A group of international researchers at the in Germany recently discovered one of the rarest types of black holes in the universe. The researchers were observing a cluster of stars in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A (Sgr A) at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They then discovered signs of an intermediate-mass black hole, a type of black hole that’s sometimes referred to as the “missing link” of black holes, according to .Black holes range in size from supermassive to primordial and the intermediate sits above primordial in size. They are believed to have…
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Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings
20 Jul

Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As the world continues to gush over the prowess of the all-new GPT-4o-mini, Apple has chosen to expand its family of small models. A few hours ago, the research team at Apple working as part of the DataComp for Language Models project, released a family of open DCLM models on Hugging Face. The package includes two main models at the core: one with 7 billion parameters and the other with 1.4 billion parameters. They both perform pretty well on the benchmarks,…
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[Roast: Day 5] – Creating flow using useState
20 Jul

[Roast: Day 5] – Creating flow using useState

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Today it seemed that I’m not moving as quickly as I have the past few days. I started work today on the card that most of the user interaction happens with. And since this is the part I care the most about, this is also taking the most time! I spent a good couple of hours fighting with the form, trying to implement an animation for the form labels. I did eventually get it, but after working on it for so long, I feel like I need a bit of a break. Either way, I found a solution for the…
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2.7 billion people don’t use the internet. What’s stopping them?
20 Jul

2.7 billion people don’t use the internet. What’s stopping them?

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Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing here.It’s 2035, and the entire world has access to the internet. This means everyone, finally, is able to further their education, access a huge range of jobs, easily start their own business, and find health information that could literally save lives. Here’s how we’ll do it.The digital…
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20 Jul

Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

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Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer related questions. While recent advancements in foundation models have significantly closed the gap between human and machine visual processing, conventional VQA has been restricted to reason about only single images at a time rather than whole collections of visual data. This limitation poses challenges in more complex scenarios. Take, for example, the challenges of discerning patterns in collections of medical…
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Researchers develop technique to give robots “embodied reasoning” abilities
20 Jul

Researchers develop technique to give robots “embodied reasoning” abilities

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities in solving complex problems through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, a technique that instructs the model to carefully break down the solution into concrete steps. Now, researchers are trying to find out whether foundation models for robots can benefit from the same kind of upgrade. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Warsaw and Stanford University explore this question in their new paper, introducing “Embodied Chain-of-Thought Reasoning” (ECoT) for vision-language-action models (VLAs). ECoT…
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The US Navy’s Red Sea fight is more intense than even the Tanker War in the 1980s, destroyer captain says
20 Jul

The US Navy’s Red Sea fight is more intense than even the Tanker War in the 1980s, destroyer captain says

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The US Navy has spent months battling Houthi missiles and drones threatening warships and civilian vessels alike in a high-tempo operating environment that has been described as the most intense combat the sea service has seen in nearly eight decades.One American warship very familiar with the Houthi threat is the destroyer USS Mason, which just returned to its homeport after a restless, monthslong deployment protecting key shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.The Mason's crew, like those of other ships of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group that left the region a few weeks ago, has…
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20 Jul

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

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I didn’t know I was dead until I saw it on Google. When I searched my name, there it was: a picture of my smiling face next to the text “Tom Faber was a physicist and publisher, and he was a university lecturer at Cambridge for 35 years”. Apparently I died on 27 July 2004, aged 77. This was news to me.The problem was the picture. When you search the name of a notable person, Google may create what it calls a “knowledge panel”, a little box with basic information taken from Wikipedia. Somewhere along the way, the algorithm had…
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