Best Cocktail Gear: Shakers, Strainers, Juicers, and More (2023)
Steal the show at your next party with a display of cocktail mixology mastery with the right bar tools, books, and glassware.
Engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’
Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics. When applied to the surface of a prosthetic arm or a robotic limb, the sensor skin provides touch sensitivity and dexterity, enabling tasks that can be difficult for machines such as picking up …
Robot stand-in mimics your movements in VR
Researchers from Cornell and Brown University have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user’s movements and gestures made in virtual reality.
4k images i managed to create with 2gb vram
submitted by /u/Adnane_Touami [link] [comments]
Announcing Open Source for Palantir Government Web Services
Editor’s note: This is a follow-up post to The Technical Annex: Announcing Palantir Government Web Services (GWS), which previewed some of our upcoming open source offerings for GWS. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing our most compelling open source tooling to accelerate builders in the defense tech ecosystem. First up: Policy Bot for …
Read more “Announcing Open Source for Palantir Government Web Services”
Frontier Model Forum updates
Together with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, we’re announcing the new Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and a new $10 million AI Safety Fund.
What CIOs and CTOs should consider before adopting generative AI for application modernization
Implementing generative AI can seem like a chicken-and-egg conundrum. In a recent IBM Institute for Business Value survey, 64% of CEOs said they needed to modernize apps before they could use generative AI. But simultaneously, generative AI has the power to transform the process of application modernization through code reverse engineering, code generation, code conversion …
Looking back at wildfire research in 2023
Posted by Yi-Fan Chen, Software Engineer, and Carla Bromberg, Program Lead, Google Research Wildfires are becoming larger and affecting more and more communities around the world, often resulting in large-scale devastation. Just this year, communities have experienced catastrophic wildfires in Greece, Maui, and Canada to name a few. While the underlying causes leading to such …
Detection and high-frequency monitoring of methane emission point sources using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
Methane (CH4) is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas that‘s a by-product of oil and gas extraction, coal mining, large-scale animal farming, and waste disposal, among other sources. The global warming potential of CH4 is 86 times that of CO2 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that methane is responsible for 30 percent of observed …
Smile please! 3D Predict revolutionizes orthodontics with generative AI technology running on Google Cloud
If you’ve ever worn braces, you’ll know how uncomfortable and inconvenient they can be. Aside from having a mouthful of metal, there’s the sticky problem of trapped food, sleepless nights, and frequent visits to the orthodontist for adjustments. This discomfort is endured over a long period of treatment of 2+ years on average (and much …