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With more and more businesses moving to the Cloud, FinOps is becoming a vital framework for efficiently controlling Cloud expenses. FinOps, which was first created to maximise the use of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) models, is currently broadening its scope to include Software as a Service (SaaS). Given… Read more

You could drop $40,000 on 200 Sonos speakers, or get a single pair of Focal’s Utopia Diva. In this case, less is most definitely more. Read more

Large vision-language models have emerged as powerful tools for multimodal understanding, demonstrating impressive capabilities in interpreting and generating content that combines visual and textual information. These models, such as LLaVA and its variants, fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on visual instruction data to perform complex vision tasks. However, developing high-quality visual instruction datasets presents significant… Read more

In 2016, IEEE Spectrum spotlighted Ohio State University’s Buckeye Current team, a group of engineering students who dared to test their electric motorcycle’s mettle against professionals in the grueling Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The 20-kilometer “Race to the Clouds” challenged the students with 156 hairpin turns on a trek to the 4,300-meter summit. By… Read more

Classifier-Free Guiding, or CFG, is a major factor in enhancing picture generation quality and guaranteeing that the output closely matches the input circumstances in diffusion models. A large guidance scale is frequently required when utilizing diffusion models to improve image quality and align the generated output with the input prompt. Using a high guidance scale… Read more

Amazon’s popular security camera brand now has some AI enhancements that make it easier to sort through footage. But we have to ask: Is more AI-powered surveillance a good thing, or a step too far? Read more

In 2022, the US made a massive bet on the carbon removal industry, committing $3.5 billion to build four major regional hubs in an effort to scale up the nascent sector. But industry observers fear that market demand isn’t building fast enough to support it, even with these substantial federal grants and other subsidies.  Some… Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The weeds are winning Since the 1980s, more and more plants have evolved to become immune to the biochemical mechanisms that herbicides leverage to kill them. This herbicidal resistance threatens to decrease yields—out-of-control… Read more

Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at teaching computers to understand written and verbal human language and interact with humans by using such a language. Read more

Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress. Read more