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For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.

Perhaps you’ve noticed over the past decade how that “once in a century” forest fire or hurricane seems to be appearing in the news more often than its name would imply. With temperatures increasing due to climate change, natural disasters are increasing…

A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face

There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share.

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After landing the deal that launched his company to the front of the artificial-intelligence race, the tech chief is spreading his bets. Will it be enough?

Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker - zalando/spilo

The legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm continues

Germany's automakers manufactured around 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, putting it at No. 2 behind China, but 2024 will be bumpy.

Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation

Agnikul’s successful launch is a step toward “on-demand” rocket launches

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm

We present the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of high-temperature aluminum ablation during reentry from low-Earth orbit

The amount of aluminum oxide nanoparticles generated is q...

Canadian Regulators are leaning on new authority built into the 2023 Online Streaming Act to impose a new 5 percent tax on streaming TV and music services like Netflix and Spotify; funding that the…

Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.

NASA accidentally broadcast a simulation of astronauts being treated for decompression sickness on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, prompting speculation of an emergency in posts on social media.

Web-crawled image-text pairs are inherently noisy. Prior studies demonstrate that semantically aligning and enriching textual descriptions of these pairs can significantly enhance model training...

The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?