40 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)
Amazon Prime Day is back on October 7, but we’ve already found good deals on WIRED-approved gear.
3D printing becomes stronger and more economical with light and AI
Photocurable 3D printing, widely used for everything from dental treatments to complex prototype manufacturing, is fast and precise but has the limitation of being fragile and easily broken by impact. A KAIST research team has developed a new technology to overcome this weakness, paving the way for the more robust and economical production of everything …
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Dark Touch (hidream + wan2.2 + USDU + gimm vfi)
My workflows: https://civitai.com/models/1389968/my-personal-basic-and-simple-wan21wan22-i2v-workflows-based-on-comfyui-native-one Process: 1. HiDream initial txt2img 2. Wan2.2 img2img to fix “realism” 3. Wan2.2 img2vid 4. Wan2.2 upscale (540p -> 1080p) 5. GIMM VFI 6. MMAudio for the sound effect 🙂 Music by Marshall Watson. submitted by /u/alisitskii [link] [comments]
7 Python Decorator Tricks to Write Cleaner Code
Usually shrouded in mystery at first glance, Python decorators are, at their core, functions wrapped around other functions to provide extra functionality without altering the key logic in the function being “decorated”.
Enabling Differentially Private Federated Learning for Speech Recognition: Benchmarks, Adaptive Optimizers, and Gradient Clipping
While federated learning (FL) and differential privacy (DP) have been extensively studied, their application to automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains largely unexplored due to the challenges in training large transformer models. Specifically, large models further exacerbate issues in FL as they are particularly susceptible to gradient heterogeneity across layers, unlike the relatively uniform gradient behavior …
100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine
By Jun He, Yingyi Zhang, Ely Spears TL;DR We recently upgraded the Maestro engine to go beyond scalability and improved its performance by 100X! The overall overhead is reduced from seconds to milliseconds. We have updated the Maestro open source project with this improvement! Please visit the Maestro GitHub repository to get started. If you find …
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Announcing Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Vertex AI
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s most intelligent model and its best-performing model for complex agents, coding, and computer use, on Vertex AI. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is built to work independently for hours, maintaining clarity while orchestrating tools and coordinating multiple agents to solve complex problems. It’s designed to excel …
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video generation model.
Building better batteries with amorphous materials and machine learning
Lithium-ion batteries power most electronics, but they have limited energy density—they can store only a certain amount of energy per mass or volume of the battery.
I trained my first Qwen LoRA and I’m very surprised by it’s abilities!
LoRA was trained with Diffusion Pipe using the default settings on RunPod. submitted by /u/Hearmeman98 [link] [comments]