44+ min ago   (457+ words) Satellites take pictures of the Earth constantly. Some take pictures of the same spot every single day. Over decades, this adds up to an enormous amount of imagery: what a forest looked like ten years ago versus today, how a…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (198+ words) We benchmark scikit-learn and cuML implementations of PCA, K-Means, nearest neighbors, logistic regression, random forests, and DBSCAN. We generate datasets on the GPU, synchronize CUDA operations for fair timing, and record the speedup each accelerated algorithm achieves. We also compare…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (645+ words) Hyeokkoo Eric Kwon (second from left) with his teammates (from left) Shin Kayoung, Mo Jiayun and Park Jaecheol at Nanyang Business School on Sept 1. The team developed a tool that forecasts economic outcomes, such as whether people will save or…...

13+ hour, 12+ min ago   (424+ words) I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go ‌public, and we don't feel pressure ‌on that," Altman told Fortune. Growing numbers of U.S. lawmakers are calling for new rules…...

19+ min ago   (22+ words) Microsoft’s AI stack spans MAI-Cyber, Mage and Fara. See what is open, downloadable, managed, benchmarked and safe to run before you deploy....

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (186+ words) You can even make Alexa snarky. The quickest method is to say, "Alexa, change your personality style." Alexa will present your options and guide you through them. If you prefer to use the app, open Devices > Your Device > Device Settings…...

17+ hour, 36+ min ago   (678+ words) Meta glasses, made by the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have made it easier for people to film discreetly in public....

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (168+ words) Google mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, reconstructing more than 166,000 individual neurons. Google's fully mapped fruit fly brain is barely a week old, and it's already been put to work doing what…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (61+ words) If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today: Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you,...

5+ hour, 7+ min ago   (203+ words) This week, d-Matrix and NVIDIA had a big announcement. The companies announced that d-Matrix would bring its next-generation XPUs to the NVLink Fusion platform. A closer look at the announcement revealed a few interesting details. We covered the d-Matrix Raptor…...