Recently researched at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab suggested Hardware-Aware Transformers (HAT), an AI model training technique that incorporates Google's transformer architecture. They claim that HAT can achieve triple the inference speed on devices like the Raspberry Pi 4, …
Read More »Reddit bans r / The_Donald and r / ChapoTrapHouse as part of an essential extension of its rules
Reddit will ban r / The_Donald, r / ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today after its content guidelines have been updated to more explicitly ban hate speech. The policy is updated three weeks after Black Lives Matter's protests have caused several popular Reddit forums to go dark temporarily to …
Read More »Space Force will test the transfer of solar energy during the X-37B's next mysterious flight
The Pentagon's X-37B spacecraft is encapsulated in the payload fairing of its Atlas 5 launch vehicle. (Boeing photo) When an X-37B spacecraft built by Boeing is put into orbit for the sixth flight of the test program this month, it will try a technology that has been in development for …
Read More »Fortnite is finally leaving early access as Epic slows Save the World development
Fortnites The legendary Battle Royale game mode took the world by storm and today Epic Games announced it would remove the early access label from both the free-to-play shooter and the less popular original save the world Mode. Epic also announced that save the world will continue to be a …
Read More »Read how Americans who rely on libraries for the internet are dealing with the pandemic
COVID-19 has caused libraries in the United States to remain closed since mid-March. Less than two-thirds of Americans in rural areas have broadband Internet connections at home. The markup wrote about how libraries try to keep their customers online. It is worth reading. In the city of Cherokee in Iowa, …
Read More »YouTube suspends ads on Shane Dawson channels for old racist videos
All three of Shane Dawson's popular YouTube channels cannot generate advertising revenue indefinitely. The move took place after a series of old videos on Dawson's channels had been checked for their attention racist, anti-Semitic and offensive to others Content. In a video, Dawson in particular makes sexual comments about a …
Read More »AI Weekly: Autonomous vehicle manufacturers rely on charitable supplies during the pandemic
Early on, the pandemic, which passed a serious milestone of over 100,000 deaths in the US this week, motivated the closure of companies that were not considered essential for the wellbeing of workers. A badly affected industry was self-driving vehicles, the operators and developers of which were forced to stop …
Read More »Amazon is reported to be interested in OneWeb's bankrupt broadband satellite constellation assets
The concept of an artist shows one of the OneWeb satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Satellites Illustration) Amazon is one of the players in a bankruptcy bidder game where the assets of the OneWeb satellite company are at stake. according to Space Intel Report. Space Intel Report's Peter B. de Selding …
Read More »TCL's 10 Pro Android phone costs $ 70 at Amazon
TCL's 10 Pro phone costs almost $ 70 less on Amazon for the first time since its release in May 2020. You can pick one up for $ 382 (usually $ 450). You may not have noticed that TCL makes smartphones, but this mid-range device is cheap in terms of …
Read More »According to the CEO of T-Mobile, the sprint merger could be larger than expected to "achieve growth and synergy effects".
(Bigstock photo) The COVID-19 crisis is not slowing it downNew T-Mobile. ” T-Mobile's $ 26.5 billion sprint blockbuster merger was officially completed on April 1. Mike Sievert, who had just replaced John Legere as CEO of the combined company, said on Wednesday that the merger of the country's third and …
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