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Meta Platforms’ newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary. A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from the de facto micro-blogging site during its…
Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow, edit a Wikipedia entry or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Not everyone is OK with that — especially as the same online forums where…
Gmail AI Trick: If your line of work involves going through multiple emails per day, you would know how time-consuming that can be. Sometimes, the emails may not be of value at all, or be too long containing fluff. But at the end of the day, if your work demands it, there’s no other…
On May 24, Ford Professor of Engineering Al Oppenheim addressed a standing-room-only audience at MIT to give the talk of a lifetime. Entitled “Signal Processing: How Did We Get to Where We’re Going?”, Oppenheim’s personal account of his involvement in the early years of the digital signal processing field included a photo retrospective —…
Language is a defining feature of humanity, and for centuries, philosophers and scientists have contemplated its true purpose. We use language to share information and exchange ideas — but is it more than that? Do we use language not just to communicate, but to think? In the June 19 issue of the journal Nature,…
Thomas Varnish loves his hobbies — knitting, baking, pottery — it’s a long list. His latest interest is analog film photography. A picture with his mother and another with his boyfriend are just a few of Varnish’s favorites. “These moments of human connection are the ones I like,” he says. Varnish’s love of capturing…
AI has been the buzzword on everyone’s lips for the last few years, ever since generative AI took off with the launch of ChatGPT. Over time, generative AI models have matured and are now much more capable, but a trend we’ve been noticing lately is local compute. Because data is precious, and no one…
After months of anticipation, Samsung finally announced the official dates for its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event. The Samsung event will take on July 10 in Paris this year instead of its home country. The event is expected to include several announcements such as the unveiling of Galaxy Z Fold 6, Galaxy Z Flip 6…
Image by Author If you are a machine learning student, researcher, or practitioner, it is crucial for your career growth to have a deep understanding of how each algorithm works and the various techniques to enhance model performance. Nowadays, many individuals tend to focus solely on the code, data, and pre-trained models, often without…
Stable Diffusion is a powerful tool that helps you generate pictures. It is fun to play with the generative AI tool. But it would be useful if the tool could help you in a real job. In this post, you will see how you can leverage the power of Stable Diffusion to work on…
