Are DJI Drones Still Banned? (2026)
Can you still buy a DJI drone in the US? (Yes.) Will you be able to buy future drones? (Maybe.) Here are the current DJI dos and don’ts.
Benchmarking framework reveals major safety risks of using AI in lab experiments
While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, a new study shows that it should not yet be trusted in many lab experiments. The study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, revealed that all of the large-language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) tested fell short …
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How to generate proper Japanese in LTX-2
So, after the recent anime clip posted here a few days ago that got a lot of praise for the visuals, I noticed the Japanese audio was actually mostly gibberish, but good enough to sound like Japanese to the untrained ear. This was a real bummer to me since, all my use-cases center around Japanese …
15 Best Electric Bikes (2026), Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking
We tested the best electric bikes in every category, from commuters and mountain bikes to foldables and cruisers.
New memristor training method slashes AI energy use by six orders of magnitude
In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU) method that aligns memristor hardware’s noisy updates with neural network training, slashing energy use by nearly six orders of magnitude versus GPUs while boosting accuracy on vision tasks. The study validates EaPU on 180 nm memristor arrays and large-scale simulations.
LTX 2 is amazing : LTX-2 in ComfyUI on RTX 3060 12GB
My setup: RTX 3060 12GB VRAM + 48GB system RAM. I spent the last couple of days messing around with LTX-2 inside ComfyUI and had an absolute blast. I created short sample scenes for a loose spy story set in a neon-soaked, rainy Dhaka (cyberpunk/Bangla vibes with rainy streets, umbrellas, dramatic reflections, and a mysterious …
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The breakthrough that makes robot faces feel less creepy
Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own reflection and studying human videos online. This allowed it to speak and sing with synchronized facial motion, without being explicitly programmed. Researchers believe this …
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The Complete Guide to Data Augmentation for Machine Learning
Suppose you’ve built your machine learning model, run the experiments, and stared at the results wondering what went wrong.
ParaRNN: Unlocking Parallel Training of Nonlinear RNNs for Large Language Models
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) laid the foundation for sequence modeling, but their intrinsic sequential nature restricts parallel computation, creating a fundamental barrier to scaling. This has led to the dominance of parallelizable architectures like Transformers and, more recently, State Space Models (SSMs). While SSMs achieve efficient parallelization through structured linear recurrences, this linearity constraint limits …
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Advanced fine-tuning techniques for multi-agent orchestration: Patterns from Amazon at scale
Our work with large enterprise customers and Amazon teams has revealed that high stakes use cases continue to benefit significantly from advanced large language model (LLM) fine-tuning and post-training techniques. In this post, we show you how fine-tuning enabled a 33% reduction in dangerous medication errors (Amazon Pharmacy), engineering 80% human effort reduction (Amazon Global …