Nike is struggling to get its stride back
29 Jun

Nike is struggling to get its stride back

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In December, the company announced a cost-cutting initiative that included simplifying its assortment of products and cutting jobs.The aim was to deliver up to $2 billion in savings over the next three years, which "will be invested to fuel future growth, accelerate innovation at speed and scale, and drive greater long-term profitability."Two quarters on, investors aren't seeing much of that growth.On Thursday, Nike delivered a lackluster set of Q4 results and said it expects sales for its 2025 fiscal year to fall by mid-single digits, including a 10% drop in the first quarter alone. That shocked investors, especially as analysts…
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29 Jun

AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

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If you want evidence of Microsoft’s progress towards its environmental “moonshot” goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate.The company’s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambition is jarring with its target of being carbon negative by 2030.Microsoft says the centre will be run fully on renewable energy. However, the construction of datacentres and the servers they are filled with means that the company’s scope 3 emissions – such as CO2 related to the materials in its buildings and the…
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Meta’s Oversight Board made just 53 decisions in 2023
29 Jun

Meta’s Oversight Board made just 53 decisions in 2023

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The Oversight Board has published its latest looking at its influence on Meta and ability to shift the policies that govern Facebook and Instagram. The board says that in 2023 it received 398,597 appeals, the vast majority of which came from Facebook users. But it took on only a tiny fraction of those cases, issuing a total of 53 decisions.The board suggests, however, that the cases it selects can have an outsize impact on Meta’s users. For example, it credits its work for influencing improvements to Meta’s strike system and the “account status” feature that helps users check if their…
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She just moved into a neighborhood of 3D printed homes in Texas — see what it’s like inside
29 Jun

She just moved into a neighborhood of 3D printed homes in Texas — see what it’s like inside

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3D printed houses may sound like they're from a future filled with hoverboards and holograms. But for Daniella Glaeze, she's already living it.Glaeze began documenting her 3D printed home on TikTok shortly after moving into it in April. Her videos showing off the futuristic concrete house have garnered several million views — and questions."I'm definitely excited to bring some of this content to viewers and anyone interested in seeing the process and how these homes work," Glaeze told Business Insider. Glaeze also shows viewers a tour of a model 3D printed home by Icon. Icon "Homes," plural, because it's not…
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The 9 best things to stream this weekend, from a new season of ‘The Bear’ to a heartbreaking Celine Dion doc
29 Jun

The 9 best things to stream this weekend, from a new season of ‘The Bear’ to a heartbreaking Celine Dion doc

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"The Bear" and "The Mole" both returned with new seasons this week."Killers of the Flower Moon" star Lily Gladstone stars in a new movie that's now streaming.Netflix also has a new reality show about luxury realtors. 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. What do "The Bear" and "The Mole" have in common?Aside from…
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Steam Deck gets a built-in game recorder
29 Jun

Steam Deck gets a built-in game recorder

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While there's a bunch of third-party apps and services you can use to record your Steam games, you now have a native option that's built right into the Steam client. Valve has launched its own game recorder in beta, and yes, it also serves as a native recorder on the Steam Deck. You can either set the feature to start recording in the background the moment you keep playing or set it to only start (and stop) recording when you press a hotkey. If you choose to record in the background, you can specify the maximum of amount of storage…
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【Kaggle】HMS 2nd Solution explaind
29 Jun

【Kaggle】HMS 2nd Solution explaind

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This time, I'll explain the 2nd solution of HMS competition on kaggle.the original solution is here:https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/hms-harmful-brain-activity-classification/discussion/492254 This competition's purpose is classification to the 182 type bird calls.The validation method is AUC-ROC, so we had to predict all of birds classes. Competition host provide the random length audio calling data over 240000 samples as training data, and data not labeled for utilize to augmentation or otehrs. As the problem must be addressed were: unbalanced data, probably noisy and mixed test data, data while bird not calling, etc.. Additionaly point to be noted is the limitation of submittion. This competition only allow…
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When AI Gets More Capable, What Will Humans Do?
29 Jun

When AI Gets More Capable, What Will Humans Do?

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Sponsored By: Notion This essay is brought to you by Notion, your all-in-one workspace solution. Startups can now enjoy 6 months of Notion Plus with unlimited AI, a value of up to $6,000—for free! Thousands of startups around the world trust Notion for everything from engineering specs to new hire onboarding. Access the limitless power of AI right inside Notion to build and scale your company. When applying, select Every in the drop-down partner list and enter code EveryXNotion at the end of the form. Predicting the future can feel like a fool’s errand. But so is writing it off.…
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Google uses AI to add 110 new languages to Translate
29 Jun

Google uses AI to add 110 new languages to Translate

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While Google Translate is far from perfect, it's still a helpful way to gain information or engage in conversation. Now, that option is expanding as Google uses AI to give Translate 110 new languages, such as Cantonese, Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and NKo. About a quarter of the languages come from Africa and Google claims that all the new ones together represent 614 million speakers — about eight percent of the global population.Google credits its LLM, PaLM 2, as "a key piece to the puzzle, helping Translate more efficiently learn languages that are closely related to each other, including languages close to…
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