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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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Greenius Declaration of Human Rights

Creative Greenius

When I was a child, Wednesday was Incinerator Day, the day they burned the garbage we all threw down the garbage chute in the six story brick apartment building my family lived in (which was one of a dozen six story brick apartment buildings that were all part of the same Brooklyn complex we called home.).

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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

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Google is dominating the foundation model race Foundation models are big multipurpose models—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the foundation model that enable ChatGPT users to write code or Shakespearean sonnets. Google released the most in 2023.

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Review: 2024 Chevy Equinox EV delivers 300 miles for under $40k

Baua Electric

2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV Inside, the standard Chevrolet suite of digital instrument cluster in front of the driver and central touchscreen for driver and front passenger defines the cabin width. Chevy’s comparison sheet specifically notes its center screen is larger (17.7

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AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape

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While a new codec standard has appeared around every 10 years, all have been based on pixel mathematics—manipulating the values of individual pixels in a video frame to remove information that is not essential for human perception. These algorithms paved the way for the current dominance of video in the digital age.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

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The way we build and ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to apps using millions of lines of code to open a garage door, and other simple programs importing 1,600 external code libraries —dependencies—of unknown provenance. Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer’s standard of quality and perfection.

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