How to use Continuity Camera on macOS

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Samar Haddad / The Verge Continuity Camera is one of the most exciting features of macOS Ventura. It allows you — if you’re taking a call from your MacBook — to substitute an iPhone’s camera for the webcam. The feature can be a bit of a hassle to set up, but once you’ve got all … Read more

Deploy BLOOM-176B and OPT-30B on Amazon SageMaker with large model inference Deep Learning Containers and DeepSpeed

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The last few years have seen rapid development in the field of deep learning. Although hardware has improved, such as with the latest generation of accelerators from NVIDIA and Amazon, advanced machine learning (ML) practitioners still regularly encounter issues deploying their large deep learning models for applications such as natural language processing (NLP). In an … Read more

Asteroid surveys are on the hunt for ‘city killers’

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An artist’s impression of an asteroid lurking inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. | Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/ This week, astronomers announced the discovery of three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids that had been hiding in the glare of the Sun — and one of them is a giant. At nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across, it … Read more

Musk blames ‘activist groups’ for major advertisers pausing spending on Twitter

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As mass layoffs begin at Twitter, major advertisers are pausing their campaigns on the social network — a move that’s gotten the attention of newly-minted CEO Elon Musk. In a tweet this morning, Musk blamed a “massive drop” in Twitter revenue on “activist groups pressuring advertisers,” likely referring to an open letter sent Tuesday by … Read more

Should Twitter embrace porn and compete with OnlyFans?

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So let’s say hypothetically, you’re an extremely online billionaire who just bought a social media platform for $44 billion, a purchase you presumably regret given the fact that you spent months in legal limbo trying and failing to get out of the deal. You’re probably wondering how you can turn a company that operated at … Read more

At Stake in the US Midterms: The Future of Money

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What’s at stake in the makeup of Congress in 2023 is bigger for crypto than it’s ever been, with some seminal regulatory legislation up for consideration, and that this matters not only to crypto natives but to everyone because the laws in question could define the future of money.

Use Github Samples with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

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Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a UI-based data preparation tool that helps perform data analysis, preprocessing, and visualization with features to clean, transform, and prepare data faster. Data Wrangler pre-built flow templates help make data preparation quicker for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners by helping you accelerate and understand best practice patterns for … Read more

Uber withdraws petition to annul new ride-hailing regulations in Kenya

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Uber has applied to withdraw a petition in Kenya challenging the new ride-hailing regulations that capped commissions at 18%, and required taxi apps operating to acquire licenses. Coulson Harney, the law firm representing Uber, filed the notice of withdrawal, bringing to an end its push to have the new digital ride-hailing regulations annulled. “Take notice … Read more

Transfer learning for TensorFlow object detection models in Amazon SageMaker

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Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started on training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, … Read more

Transfer learning for TensorFlow text classification models in Amazon SageMaker

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Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, image, … Read more