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HDMI version 2.2 adds support for bandwidth of up to 96Gbps
With the increasing popularity of 4K and even 8K displays, today at CES 2025 the HDMI Forum officially revealed version 2.2 of the HDMI spec. While the shape of the connector and its general capabilities aren’t changing a ton, the big upgrade for HDMI 2.2 is that it can now support bandwidths of up to 96Gbps. This should make it significantly easier to send content with higher refresh rates and resolutions to...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:
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OpenAI thinks it knows how to build artificial general intelligence, as we await smarter Siri
We may still be mostly waiting for a smarter Siri, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the company already knows how to create the holy grail of AI: artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is the term given to an AI system which can match or exceed human cognitive capabilities across a wide range of fields – in other words, AI which is at least as smart as we are … more…
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:CES Unveiled 2025: This walking stool waved at me
At CES Unveiled 2025, Mashable checked out the Mi-Mo, a customizable general-purpose AI robot that looks like a stool.
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is a Magic Trackpad for Windows
Targus-owned Hyper introduced the HyperSpace Trackpad Pro, a premium haptic trackpad for Windows, on Sunday. The company plans to add basic compatibility with macOS via a firmware update later this year. Like the Magic Trackpad does on a Mac and other precision trackpads do on Windows laptops, the wireless HyperSpace Trackpad Pro supports multitouch gestures. However, Hyper’s trackpad software grants Windows users an...
Published on: January 05, 2025 | Source:CES 2025: The new tech we're expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas
We're here! The Engadget CES 2025 team has mostly arrived in Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual conference. Our war room is open, the team has been seeing products and the coverage will ramp up in just a few short hours. Still, the show doesn't officially kick off for a couple of days, since the convention center is only truly open on January 7. But we'll have plenty of press conferences to cover...
Published on: January 05, 2025 | Source:LangChain Meets Home Assistant: Unlock the Power of Generative AI in Your Smart Home
Learn how to create an agent that understands your home’s context, learns your preferences, and interacts with you and your home to accomplish activities you find valuable.Photo by Igor Omilaev onUnsplashIntroductionThis article describes the architecture and design of a Home Assistant (HA) integration called home-generative-agent. This project uses LangChain and LangGraph to create a generative AI agent that interacts...
Published on: January 05, 2025 | Source:United will start testing Starlink on flights in February
United Airlines has announced plans to start testing Starlink on flights in February, and eventually add SpaceX's satellite internet service to its entire fleet. The company first announced a partnership with SpaceX to "set a new standard of inflight connectivity" in September 2024. After testing, United expects the first commercial flight with Starlink to be on a United Embraer E-175 in the spring. The rest of the the...
Published on: January 05, 2025 | Source:Samsung’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch
Samsung’s CES presser is always an odd duck. The Korean electronics giant generally keeps its powder dry when it comes to consumer electronics. After all, it’s expected to announce its latest flagship handset — the Galaxy S25 — toward the end of January. CES 2025 is going to continue the company’s tradition of TVs and […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 05, 2025 | Source:TikTok knew its livestreaming feature allowed child exploitation, state lawsuit alleges
Company’s own inquiry found money laundering and children performing sexualized acts for digital currencyTikTok has long been aware that its video livestream feature has been misused to harm children, according to newly revealed details in a lawsuit brought against the social media company by the state of Utah. Those harms include child sexual exploitation and what Utah calls “an open-door policy allowing predators and...
Published on: January 04, 2025 | Source:Climate group that called for Gaza ceasefire risks losing federal funding
The United States Environmental Protection Agency building is seen on August 21st, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by Tierney L. Cross / Getty Images An alliance of grassroots environmental groups could lose $60 million in federal funding after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) was named one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “grantmakers” more than a year ago, putting it in...
Published on: January 04, 2025 | Source:The Next Frontier in LLM Accuracy
Exploring the Power of Lamini MemoryTuningImage generated by DALL-E3Accuracy is often critical for LLM applications, especially in cases such as API calling or summarisation of financial reports. Fortunately, there are ways to enhance precision. The best practices to improve accuracy include the following steps:You can start simply with prompt engineering techniques—adding more detailed instructions, using few-shot...
Published on: January 04, 2025 | Source:Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Lives were exposing minors to concerning messages from adults, but the company also directly profited off of some of the exchanges through TikTok Live's virtual gifting system. Following an investigation by Forbesinto TikTok...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:The Cultural Impact of AI Generated Content: Part 2
What can we do about the increasingly sophisticated AI generated content in ourlives?Photo by Meszárcsek Gergely onUnsplashIn my prior column, I established how AI generated content is expanding online, and described scenarios to illustrate why it’s occurring. (Please read that before you go on here!) Let’s move on now to talking about what the impact is, and what possibilities the future mighthold.Social and Creative...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Alcohol Should Come With Cancer Warning Label Like Cigarettes, U.S. Surgeon General Says
Less than half of Americans know alcohol can cause cancer, prompting the U.S. surgeon general to push for clearer warning labels and public health reforms.
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:What I’m Updating in My AI Ethics Class for 2025
What happened in 2024 that is new and significant in the world of AI ethics? The new technology developments have come in fast, but what has ethical or values implications that are going to matter long-term?I’ve been working on updates for my 2025 class on Values and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. This course is part of the Johns Hopkins Education for Professionals program, part of the Master’s degree in Artificial...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Deep Learning for Outlier Detection on Tabular and Image Data
The challenges and promises of deep learning for outlier detection, including self-supervised learning techniquesIn the last several years, deep-learning approaches have proven to be extremely effective for many machine learning problems, and, not surprisingly, this has included several areas of outlier detection. In fact, for many modalities of data, including image, video, and audio, there’s really no viable option...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Task success rate: Essentials
Task Success Rate (TSR) is a key performance metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of a certain process by tracking how successful individuals are at completing a certaintask.TSR formula, Reference values andExamplesTSR = (Number of correctly completed tasks / Total number of attempts) 100Reference values:80–90% = Generally good experienceBelow 70% = Indicates usability issuesTSR in different scenarios:E-commerce...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: FCC’s attempt to restore net neutrality didn't work
The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC does not have the "statutory authority" to implement net neutrality rules. Since the rules were established in 2015, the FCC argued that classifying ISPs as "telecommunication services" gives it broad authority to regulate them. The decision to redefine ISPs as "information services" during the first Trump Administration led to the repeal of net...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Integrating Feature Selection into the Model Estimation
Combining mixture of normal regressions with in-built feature selection into powerful modelingtoolFeature selection is usually defined as the process of identifying the most relevant variables in a dataset to improve model performance and reduce complexity of thesystem.However, it often has limitations. The variables can be interdependent. When we remove one variable, we might weaken the predictive power of those that...
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:Tether general counsel Stuart Hoegner retires
Tether and Bitfinex general counsel Stuart Hoegner has retired, leaving Michael Hilliard to take his place as legal chief at the two firms.
Published on: January 03, 2025 | Source:The US government announced a ‘historic’ nuclear energy deal
Two cooling towers being rehabilitated for nuclear power generation under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, stand tall over the residential and farm lands to the east across the Susquehanna River, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, in Middletown, Pennsylvania. | Photos by Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images The General Services Administration (GSA), which...
Published on: January 02, 2025 | Source:Mastering Sensor Fusion: Color Image Obstacle Detection with KITTI Data — Part 2
Mastering Sensor Fusion: Color Image Obstacle Detection with KITTI Data—Part2How to use color image data for object detection in the context of obstacle detectionThe concept of sensor fusion is a decision-making mechanism that can be applied to different problems and using different modalities. We mentioned in the previous post that in this Medium blog series, we will analyze the concept of sensor fusion for obstacle...
Published on: January 02, 2025 | Source:Google is ‘back’, and why is that not a surprise?
Insights on how the AI hype feeds on good UX and what to expectnext.The opportunities from AI don't just happen. They need the right ecosystem to exist and reach communities. This is what the big AI companies are working on. (Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash)Companies like Google have been committed to AI for decades, with active contributions to science and investing in talent that brought the area to the level we know...
Published on: January 02, 2025 | Source:Start a New Year of Learning on the Right Foot
Feeling inspired to write your first TDS post? We’re always open to contributions from newauthors.Happy new year! Welcome back to the Variable!The ink has barely dried on our 2024 highlights roundup (it’s never too late to browse it, of course), and here we are, ready to dive headfirst into a fresh year of learning, growth, and exploration.We have a cherished tradition of devoting the first edition of the year to our...
Published on: January 02, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers in 2024
Welcome to 2025. Wave farewell to yesteryear with the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 was challenging when it simply wasn’t a great time for tech. With the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance of banning TikTok in the US and the neverending edited and deepfaked content, it’s just so noisy. Is it the internet of slop? Is it exhaustion? Is it AIs talking...
Published on: January 02, 2025 | Source:78% Of You Are More Bullish About 2025 Than 2024
So it’s in the air. Not everywhere, not at every start-up or scale-up. But in general, overall, a sense that SaaS is back. It’s not just AI, although that’s part of it. It’s not just the big run-up in many SaaS stocks recently, although that’s a big part of it. It’s also data that suggests... Continue Reading The post 78% Of You Are More Bullish About 2025 Than 2024 appeared first on SaaStr.
Published on: January 01, 2025 | Source:Multi-Agentic RAG with Hugging Face Code Agents
Using Qwen2.5–7B-Instruct powered code agents to create a local, open source, multi-agentic RAGsystemPhoto by Jaredd Craig onUnsplashLarge Language Models have shown impressive capabilities and they are still undergoing steady improvements with each new generation of models released. Applications such as chatbots and summarisation can directly exploit the language proficiency of LLMs as they are only required to...
Published on: December 31, 2024 | Source:Stop the Count! Why Putting A Time Limit on Metrics is Critical for Fast and Accurate Experiments
Why your experiments might never reach significancePhoto by Andrik Langfield onUnsplashIntroductionExperiments usually compare the frequency of an event (or some other sum metric) after either exposure (treatment) or non-exposure (control) to some intervention. For example: we might compare the number of purchases, minutes spent watching content, or number of clicks on a call-to-action.While this setup may seem plain,...
Published on: December 31, 2024 | Source:Tech’s biggest losers in 2024
The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance of banning TikTok in the US and the neverending edited and deepfaked content that has everyone questioning what’s real, the world lost. And it is lost. But a few areas this year stood out as particularly troubling....
Published on: December 31, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen
We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen bigger than your iPad. I’m not sure what you’ll watch in the three-and-a-half minutes it takes to heat that butter chicken curry, but you can do it in glorious full HD resolution. LG The touchscreen integrates with LG’s ThinQ Smart Home Dashboard if you think it...
Published on: December 31, 2024 | Source:From Default Python Line Chart to Journal-Quality Infographics
Transform boring default Matplotlib line charts into stunning, customized visualizationsCover, image by theAuthorEveryone who has used Matplotlib knows how ugly the default charts look like. In this series of posts, I’ll share some tricks to make your visualizations stand out and reflect your individual style.We’ll start with a simple line chart, which is widely used. The main highlight will be adding a gradient fill...
Published on: December 30, 2024 | Source:Building a Custom AI Jira Agent
How I used Google Mesop, Django, LangChain Agents, CO-STAR & Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting combined with the Jira API to better automateJiraPhoto by Google DeepMind onUnsplashThe inspiration for this project came from hosting a Jira ticket creation tool on a web application I had developed for internal users. I also added automated Jira ticket creation upon systemerrors.Users and system errors often create...
Published on: December 30, 2024 | Source:Apple promised next-gen CarPlay in 2024, so where is it?
Apple’s new CarPlay is still just a concept. | Screenshot: Apple We still haven’t seen the “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and continues to say on its CarPlay webpage is arriving in 2024, as MacRumors points out. And barring some spectacular surprise, it’s not coming today or tomorrow. What gives? So far, we’ve only seen changes like CarPlay mapping directions appearing in the instrument...
Published on: December 30, 2024 | Source:CES 2025: LG's bendable 5K OLED, Hyundai's holographic windshield display and other tech we're expecting to see in Las Vegas
You might have thrown out the wrapping paper and are readying the drinks for the countdown to the new year, but some of us are already getting ready for CES 2025. Shortly after New Year’s Day, many from the Engadget team will be packing our bags to fly to Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual conference. As usual, our inboxes are already flooded with pitches from companies that are planning to be...
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