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Nosferatu’s Resurrection Was a Long Time Coming
There’s nothing more done to death than the vampire. Director Robert Eggers says he tried to avoid the obvious by returning to “the older folklore.”
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You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family
AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time.
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These stunning images trace ships’ routes as they move
As we run, drive, bike, and fly, we leave behind telltale marks of our movements on Earth—if you know where to look. Physical tracks, thermal signatures, and chemical traces can reveal where we’ve been. But another type of trail we leave comes from the radio signals emitted by the cars, planes, trains, and boats we…
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Revisiting a year of Roundtables, MIT Technology Review’s subscriber-only events
The worst technologies of 2024. The future of mixed reality. AI’s impact on the climate. These are just a few of the topics we covered this year in MIT Technology Review’s monthly event series, Roundtables. The series offers a unique opportunity to hear straight from our reporters and editors about what’s next for emerging technologies.…
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6 ways to turn your IT help desk into a strategic asset
The IT help desk is often considered the “dungeon” department in most IT organizations: a place where those who can’t excel at anything more meaningful in IT are left to linger, or those who are just starting out in IT must prove their mettle before launching their “true” IT careers. The help desk can also…
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Give Your Social Health a Decent Workout
Your physical and mental well-being are crucial—but the picture isn’t complete if you aren’t flexing your connection muscles, too. Here’s how to build—and keep—your social health.
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Cómo hablar con la junta directiva sobre la deuda tecnológica
Cuando su director ejecutivo o director financiero le pregunta sobre el presupuesto necesario para la remediación de la deuda técnica, ¿se encuentra con dificultades para justificar la inversión? No es el único. Si bien los directores de TI comprenden el peso aplastante de la deuda técnica, traducir esto a un lenguaje empresarial convincente para la junta…
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FineWeb-C: A Community-Built Dataset For Improving Language Models In ALL Languages
FineWeb2 significantly advances multilingual pretraining datasets, covering over 1000 languages with high-quality data. The dataset uses approximately 8 terabytes of compressed text data and contains nearly 3 trillion words, sourced from 96 CommonCrawl snapshots between 2013 and 2024. Processed using the datatrove library, FineWeb2 demonstrates superior performance compared to established datasets like CC-100, mC4, CulturaX,…
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Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning
Multimodal reasoning—the ability to process and integrate information from diverse data sources such as text, images, and video—remains a demanding area of research in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite advancements, many models still struggle with contextually accurate and efficient cross-modal understanding. These challenges often stem from limitations in scale, narrowly focused datasets, and restricted access to…
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Frenzy: A Memory-Aware Serverless Computing Method for Heterogeneous GPU Clusters
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making significant advances with an exponentially growing trajectory, incorporating vast amounts of data and building more complex Large Language Models (LLMs). Training these LLMs requires more computational power and resources for memory allocation, power usage, and hardware. Optimizing memory utilization for different types and configurations of GPUs is complex. Deciding…