Tag: computing

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, December 7 (game #279)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints…

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Nobody wants this but a TikTok ban is starting to seem inevitable

Stop your dancing, lip-syncing, how-tos, restorations, commiserations, and online shops; TikTok just took another big step closer to the sharp blade of a US ban’s guillotine. The massively popular app could disappear from US phones as early as next month, and while it’s an outcome few want, it’s the one…

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OpenAI’s new AI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning could transform how scientists use its models

The second day of OpenAI‘s 12 Days of OpenAI shifted to less spectacular, more enterprise interests compared to the general rollout of the OpenAI o1 model to ChatGPT on day one. Instead, OpenAI announced plans to release Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT), a way to customize its AI models for developers who…

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Need extra storage for your new M4 Mac mini but don’t want to pay Apple’s steep upgrade prices? This unique external SSD might be the game-changer you’re looking for

If you’re considering getting the new M4 Mac mini, you’ve probably noticed that it costs a pretty penny if you want to upgrade the amount of storage it comes with. If you want to upgrade from the base 256GB Mac mini to the 512GB configuration, that’ll cost you $200 /…

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12 Days of OpenAI – Live updates from Day 7 including ChatGPT, Sora, o1 and more

Refresh 2024-12-13T16:01:39.364Z (Image credit: OpenAI) Welcome back to day 7 of OpenAI’s 12 Days of OpenAI. Today is the last day of OpenAI releases this week. We’d expect OpenAI to follow the same format as last weekend and not release anything on Saturday and Sunday, meaning Day 8 will commence…

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12 Days of OpenAI – Live updates from Day 6 including ChatGPT, Sora, o1 and more

Refresh 2024-12-12T18:09:02.025Z Next, we’re getting a demo of ChatGPT teaching an OpenAI employee how to use a French press in real time, using video mode within Advance Voice Mode. It provides commentary based on the live video, but it can also handle interruptions from the user’s voice in real time.…

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