Month: August 2023

Meet Five Generative AI Innovators in Africa and the Middle East

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Entrepreneurs are cultivating generative AI from the west coast of Africa to the eastern edge of the Arabian Desert. Gen AI is the latest of the big plans Kofi Genfi and Nii Osae have been hatching since they met 15 years ago in high school in Accra, Ghana’s capital that sits on the Gulf of Read article >

Morphobots for Mars: Caltech Develops All-Terrain Robot as Candidate for NASA Mission

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Academics Mory Gharib and Alireza Ramezani in 2020 were spitballing a transforming robot that is now getting a shot at work that’s literally out of this world: NASA Mars Rover missions. Caltech has unveiled its multi-talented robot that can fly, drive, walk and do eight permutations of motions through a combination of its skills. They Read article >

GeForce NOW Gets Wild, With ‘Party Animals’ Leading 24 New Games in September

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Just like that, summer falls into September, and some of the most anticipated games of the year, like the Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty expansion, PAYDAY 3 and Party Animals, are dropping into the GeForce NOW library at launch this month. They’re part of 24 new games hitting the cloud gaming service in September. And the Read article >

AI Lands at Bengaluru Airport With IoT Company’s Intelligent Video Analytics Platform

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Each year, nearly 32 million people travel through the Bengaluru Airport, or BLR, one of the busiest airports in the world’s most populous nation. To provide such multitudes with a safer, quicker experience, the airport in the city formerly known as Bangalore is tapping vision AI technologies powered by Industry.AI. A member of the NVIDIA Read article >

Deepdub’s AI Redefining Dubbing from Hollywood to Bollywood

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In the global entertainment landscape, TV show and film production stretches far beyond Hollywood or Bollywood — it’s a worldwide phenomenon. However, while streaming platforms have broadened the reach of content, dubbing and translation technology still has plenty of room for growth. Deepdub acts as a digital bridge, providing access to content by using generative Read article >

Game of Trees 0.92 released

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Version 0.92
of Game of Trees
has been released (and the port
updated):

* got 0.92; 2023-08-29
see git repository history for per-change authorship information
– allow modified files to be deleted during merges if content exists in repo
-…

Wide Horizons: NVIDIA Keynote Points Way to Further AI Advances

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Dramatic gains in hardware performance have spawned generative AI, and a rich pipeline of ideas for future speedups that will drive machine learning to new heights, Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist and senior vice president of research, said today in a keynote. Dally described a basket of techniques in the works — some already showing Read article >

Google Cloud and NVIDIA Take Collaboration to the Next Level

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As generative AI and large language models (LLMs) continue to drive innovations, compute requirements for training and inference have grown at an astonishing pace. To meet that need, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of its new A3 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These GPUs bring unprecedented performance to all kinds Read article >

Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)

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Damien Miller (djm@) has
committed
support for keystroke timing obfuscation to
ssh(1):

CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/08/27 21:31:16

Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : clientloop.c misc.c misc.h packet.c…