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Anime has experienced a boom in fantasy series with shows like Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and newly christened Harvey Award for Best Manga winner, Delicious in Dungeon. While these shows have carved out a generational run in the realm of anime as refreshing series that aren’t just more isekai shows, there’s one more fantasy anime … Read More
Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space. The lake formed after a cyclone walloped parts of northern Africa in September, causing huge amounts of rain in the Sahara Desert. And now, it’s helping researchers study what the Sahara may have looked like thousands of years ago—perhaps not a jungle, but … Read More
AMD announced this month that several new plug-ins are now available for its fast and easy rendering engine, AMD Radeon ProRender. Optimized for AMD Radeon PRO and Radeon RX graphics cards, AMD Radeon ProRender is built on open standards and works on any GPU that supports OpenCL 1.2 and on any CPU. It uses open … Read More
American Water Works, one of the largest water and wastewater utility providers in the United States, announced a cybersecurity breach that prompted the company to pause billing services for its 14 million customers across 14 states. The Camden, New Jersey-based utility became aware of the unauthorized activity on Thursday and took immediate action by shutting … Read More
This summer, scientists supercharged their tools in the hunt for signs of life beyond Earth. Researchers at the SETI Institute became the first to apply AI to the real-time direct detection of faint radio signals from space. Their advances in radio astronomy are available for any field that applies accelerated computing and AI. “We’re on … Read More
The S2 finale found the Enterprise under vicious attack by the Gorn, who were in the midst of invading one of the Federation’s colony worlds. The new footage shown at NYCC picked up where the finale left off, giving us the kind of harrowing high-stakes pitched space battle against a ferocious enemy that has long … Read More
At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs. ACE is a suite of digital human technologies that provide speech, intelligence, and animation powered by generative AI. Developers can also now access a new Audio2Face-3D plugin … Read More
The NVIDIA RTX AI for Windows PCs platform offers a thriving ecosystem of thousands of open-source models for application developers to leverage and integrate into Windows applications. Notably, llama.cpp is one popular tool, with over 65K GitHub stars at the time of writing. Originally released in 2023, this open-source repository is a lightweight, efficient framework … Read More
Intel’s Meteor Lake processors represented a major step forward for the company. As Intel’s first step into chiplet (or “tile”) fabrication for client chips, Meteor Lake brought big improvements in efficiency, graphics, and AI performance for the company’s mobile processors. Arrow Lake is on track to do that for desktops at the end of this … Read More
With the rapid expansion of language models over the past 18 months, hundreds of variants are now available. These include large language models (LLMs), small language models (SLMs), and domain-specific models—many of which are freely accessible for commercial use. For LLMs in particular, the process of fine-tuning with custom datasets has also become increasingly affordable … Read More