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The Role Of High-Resolution Data In Software Development

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Higher resolution data has a rich set of values related to images, movement, sound and unstructured elements that we now seek to bring structure to.

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X.ai: $6B Series B

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xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.

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ZenML v0.58.0

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New out-of-the-box Prodigy integration in ZenML for LLMs and beyond, to make data development and annotation a core part of your MLOps lifecycle.

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Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board

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For humanity’s sake, regulation is needed to tame market forces, argue Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley

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It's Settled, More Nuclear Energy Means Less Mining

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The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food and farming.

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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

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Live facial recognition is becoming increasingly common on UK high streets. Should we be worried?

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

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MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems or crossword puzzles.

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What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like when it came up from the depths

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Exclusive photos show the damage in detail. They may explain what happened, but the question of guilt remains.

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Old dogs, new CSS tricks

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A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. One of the biggest barriers: we need to re-wire our own brains.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

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Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of depression.

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Alaska's Pristine Waterways Are Turning Orange

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Some of Alaska's clear, icy blue waterways are turning a startling rust orange – so intense it's visible from Earth's orbit.

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Kernel dev writes a USB driver from scratch in 3h [video]

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Watch #Linux kernel developer write a new #USB driver from scratch in just 3h by copy'n pasting and thus stealing it from other best matching drivers for #Ap.

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A Big Ring on the Sky

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About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure in the universe which has confounded astronomers.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Is regulated BGP security coming?

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What impact would regulating BGP routing security have on the global Internet?

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How to enhance generative AI's problem-solving capabilities, boost productivity

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In 2024, enterprise software companies are betting on generative AI, in a quest to enhance productivity.

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Electrically conductive bricks can replace fossil fuels in industrial processes

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A Medford company has built a brick that can be heated up to 1,800 degrees Celsius from renewable sources of energy. That concentrated heat can then be used for industrial processes, such as making steel or cement, cutting out the need for coal.

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Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]

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Consider subscribing to the channel, and joining the French Space Guy community on Patreon: [link] resources:- The Apoll.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium

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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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Understanding How the Brain Reads Code versus Language

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While both programming and reading a natural language involve deciphering symbols and instructions, recent research indicates that our brains process these

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macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions

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Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Warhol and the Amiga

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In the summer of 1985, Warhol was given his first Amiga 1000 home computer by Commodore International and enthusiastically signed on with the company as a brand ambassador.

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Milk Watcher

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A Journey to the Medical Netherworld (2016)

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If your child gets sick, hope for something mechanical. Failing that, wish for something commonplace. This is a mother's quest to find her daughter a diagnosis.

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API Governance Delivers Quality

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The ultimate purpose of API Governance is to improve the quality of what it governs.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi

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TDOA Sound Localization is determining the source of a sound when all you know is the differences in the time of arrival of the sound event…

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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

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llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3

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A self-organizing file system with llama 3. Contribute to iyaja/llama-fs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?