Month: March 2022
Microsoft, OpenAI may have solved a fundamental AI bottleneck
Audio player loading… Microsoft and Open AI have developed a new method for fine-tuning massive AI models that are otherwise too expensive to retrain, such as GPT-3. A blog post published by Microsoft Research describes a technique called µ-Parametrization (or µP), which plays on the discovery of similarities between the…
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The Morning After: Apple reveals Mac Studio, new iPhone SE and more
Apple events can sometimes fizzle out. Besides the ceremony of a new iPhone series each year, it’s a little harder to get excited for Macs and iPads with slightly better chips and minor design tweaks. We saw a splash of color and some redesigns in the last year, but this…
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Another US internet backbone provider is shutting down services in Russia
Lumen, a US firm that provides essential internet services, says it’s pulling out of Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s the second major company of its kind to do so in less than a week, following a similar announcement from rival Cogent last Friday, and is…
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Apple Continues Its Slow March Toward the MacPad Future
The new iPad Air gets a desktop-grade chip. Consider it a sign of things to come. Source
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Watch an Elden Ring speedrunner finish the game in under 3 hours without dying
Audio player loading… A prolific YouTube speedrunner has managed to complete Elden Ring in just over two and a half hours – without dying once. Niko bellic uploaded their speedrun to YouTube (watch it below), showing their entire hasty playthrough of the game along with the tricks they exploited to…
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Now that Disney Plus is trying ads, how long until the rest of the streamers do, too?
Disney Plus’ big ad experiment will arrive on the service later this year, meaning that users will have the option of sitting through advertisements in exchange for a slightly cheaper plan. On the one hand, that’s great news for streamers on a budget. Ad-supported plans give consumers a lot of…
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