Month: May 2024

Unlock $15,000 for Your Web3 Project: Compete in Upland’s 2024 Genesis Hackathon

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This year’s Upland’s Genesis Hackathon intends to set new standards in the Web3 and blockchain gaming sectors. Upland is organising the Upland’s Genesis Week event, which will shift away from its conventional methodology in favour of a more idea-centric competition. In an exciting change, the 2024 iteration will no longer need participants to present a … Read more

Multi-EuP: Analysis of Bias in Information Retrieval – Experiments and Findings

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:::info This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license. Authors: (1) Jinrui Yang, School of Computing & Information Systems, The University of Melbourne (Email: jinruiy@student.unimelb.edu.au); (2) Timothy Baldwin, School of Computing & Information Systems, The University of Melbourne and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE (Email: (tbaldwin,trevor.cohn)@unimelb.edu.au); (3) Trevor Cohn, School … Read more

Cybersecurity Degrees, Are They Really Worth It?

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Thinking about a getting a cybersecurity degree but aren’t really sure? You’re not the only one. There’s a lot of debate on whether a cybersecurity degree has any value. But as a sign of things to come, the Office of National Cyber Director recently announced a willingness for federal agencies to move away from education-based … Read more

What Is Google Baseline?: A Quick Look at Its Impact on Browser Compatibility and Interoperability

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For years, web developers of all experience levels have relied on caniuse.com to understand the support of a given feature. Reviewing caniuse.com is helpful in determining backward compatibility or which of the modern browsers supports cutting-edge improvements to web specifications. n In 2023, Google introduced Baseline to the web community. This tool is not just … Read more

AI in Biotech: Challenges, Use Cases and Prospects

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The intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnology holds immense promise for revolutionizing healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Head of Data Science Ivan Drokin has been working in the AI space for over 15 years now, resolving tasks in both research and engineering. Delving into the nuanced world of AI in biotech and medtech, our conversation illuminated … Read more

Starfield is finally getting a 60fps mode on Xbox

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Image: Bethesda Softworks Starfield players on Xbox will no longer have to deal with the game’s 30-frames-per-second (fps) cap. As part of an update arriving on May 15th, Bethesda will let Xbox Series X players run the game at 60fps. The 60fps option comes as part of several new display customization settings. The game will … Read more

Fine-tune and deploy language models with Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Bedrock

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Imagine harnessing the power of advanced language models to understand and respond to your customers’ inquiries. Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service providing access to such models, makes this possible. Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on domain-specific data supercharges tasks like answering product questions or generating relevant content. In this post, we show how Amazon … Read more

Microsoft’s billion-dollar OpenAI investment was trigged by Google fears, emails reveal

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Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 because it was “very worried” that Google was years ahead in scaling up its AI efforts. An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level … Read more

Setting Up a Python Dev Environment in 2024

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The following two xkcd issues pretty much sum up the experience of coming new to Python. You start flying on day 1: XKCD 1987: Python Environment Later, by the time it comes to shipping your code to production, you experience the inevitable crash due to getting entangled in all the different Python environment symlinks: XKCD … Read more