New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods
Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the “sponge city.” Think more parks and fewer parking lots.
Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the “sponge city.” Think more parks and fewer parking lots.
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TikTok has taken the social media universe by storm with short-form viral videos of dances, humorous skits, heartfelt messages, fashion, travel, and more. As of 2023, TikTok has over a billion monthly active users globally, including 150 million in the US. The viral nature of the platform, its unique algorithm, and its power to keep …
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Our team is so proud to welcome Timothy Young, former president of Dropbox, as Jasper’s next chief executive officer.
Posted by Zhengqi Li and Noah Snavely, Research Scientists, Google Research A mobile phone’s camera is a powerful tool for capturing everyday moments. However, capturing a dynamic scene using a single camera is fundamentally limited. For instance, if we wanted to adjust the camera motion or timing of a recorded video (e.g., to freeze time …
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Modern application environments need real-time automated observability to have visibility and insights into what is going on. Because of the highly dynamic nature of microservices and the numerous interdependencies among application components, having an automated approach to observability is essential. That’s why traditional solutions like New Relic struggle to keep up with monitoring in cloud-native …
Read more “In observability, “automation” is spelled I-N-S-T-A-N-A”
Posted by Zhengqi Li and Noah Snavely, Research Scientists, Google Research A mobile phone’s camera is a powerful tool for capturing everyday moments. However, capturing a dynamic scene using a single camera is fundamentally limited. For instance, if we wanted to adjust the camera motion or timing of a recorded video (e.g., to freeze time …
Read more “DynIBaR: Space-time view synthesis from videos of dynamic scenes”
This post is co-written with Ilan Geller and Shuyu Yang from Accenture. Enterprises today face major challenges when it comes to using their information and knowledge bases for both internal and external business operations. With constantly evolving operations, processes, policies, and compliance requirements, it can be extremely difficult for employees and customers to stay up …
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Kubernetes is the de facto standard today for cloud-native development. For a long time, Kubernetes was mostly associated with stateless applications such as web and batch applications. However, like most things, Kubernetes is constantly evolving. These days, we are seeing an exponential increase in the number of stateful apps on Kubernetes. In fact, the number …
Read more “Data on Kubernetes has crossed the chasm: the case for running stateful apps on GKE”
This week, we cover the latest news from Meta: AI-enabled smart glasses, a VR headset, and an army of fresh chatbots.