Jan 25
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said she “strongly disagreed” with the ruling and vowed to fight it.
Jan 25
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Jan 25
Meta has completed the first phase of a new AI supercomputer. Once the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) is fully built out later this year, the company believes it will be the fastest AI supercomputer on the planet, capable of “performing at nearly 5 exaflops of mixed precision compute.”
The company says RSC will help researchers develop better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples. Among other things, the models will be able to build better augmented reality tools and “seamlessly analyze text, images and video together,” according to Meta. Much of this work is in service of its vision for the metaverse, in which it says AI-powered apps and products will have a key role.
“We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together,” technical program manager Kevin Lee and software engineer Shubho Sengupta wrote in a blog post.
RSC currently has 760 Nvidia DGX A100 systems with a total of 6,080 GPUs. Meta believes the current iteration is already among the fastest AI supercomputers on the planet. Based on early benchmarks, it claims RSC can, compared with the company’s older setup, run computer vision workflows up to 20 times faster and the NVIDIA Collective Communication Library more than nine times faster.
Meta says RSC can train large-scale natural language processing models three times faster as well. As such, AI models that determine whether “an action, sound or image is harmful or benign” (for example, to root out hate speech) can be trained more quickly. According to the company, that research will help protect people on current services like Facebook and Instagram, as well as in the metaverse.
Along with creating the physical infrastructure and systems to run RSC, Meta said it needed to ensure there were security and privacy controls in place to protect the real-world training data it uses. It says that by using real-world data from its production systems, instead of publicly available data sets, it can more effectively put its research to use by, for instance, identifying harmful content.
This year, Meta plans to increase the number of GPUs in RSC to 16,000. It says that will boost AI training performance by more than 2.5 times. The company, which started working on the project in early 2020, wanted RSC to train AI models on data sets up to an exabyte in size (the equivalent of 36,000 years’ worth of high-quality video).
“We expect such a step function change in compute capability to enable us not only to create more accurate AI models for our existing services, but also to enable completely new user experiences, especially in the metaverse,” Lee and Sengupta wrote.
Other exascale systems are being built in the US. The delayed Aurora supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is expected to hit 2 exaflops, while the El Capitan supercomputer, which will manage the country’s nuclear stockpile, is expected to top 2 exaflops when it arrives next year.
Jan 25
The cast of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s HBO Max film Batgirl keeps growing, today adding a best friend for Barbara Gordon: Ivory Aquino, who’ll play bartender Alysia Yeoh—a former roommate of Barbara’s who also happens to be one of DC Comics’ most notable trans characters.
Jan 25
In the past, we have heard stories of how smartphones when they first ship typically exhibit some kind of weird screen issue. For the most part, this tends to be an issue with the glue used to hold the displays in place and eventually it does go away. However, iPhone 13 users are experiencing something a little different.
According to posts in the Apple support forums, some iPhone 13 users are reporting that their displays have suddenly turned pink and that their devices are crashing as well. Some users claim that they have had some luck returning their devices to Apple and getting a new one, while others say that Apple support ran diagnostics and found that there was nothing wrong.
However, according to a report from My Drivers, it turns out that Apple did address the problem in a post on Weibo over the weekend. According to the post, “We didn’t notice relevant problems in the hardware of the devices because this situation [pink screen] is caused when the system is locked.”
As to the reason why it was posted on Weibo, it is because most of the complaints seem to have come from China. That being said, as 9to5Mac noticed, the latest iOS 15.3 RC does not seem to mention anything about the pink screen so we have to wonder if a fix is part of iOS 15.3 or if it will come later.
iPhone 13 Users Reporting Issues Of Pink Display
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Jan 25
Future AirPods Could Pause Noise-Cancellation When A Certain Code Word Is Spoken
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The problem with having noise-canceling headphones is that when someone speaks to you, you can’t hear them. You could pause your music or tap on them (for some headphones) to temporarily activate transparency mode, but it would usually mean that the person needs to repeat what they just said to you.
Apple thinks that they might have found the solution to that problem by deactivating noise-cancellation when certain code words are spoken. This is according to a patent discovered by AppleInsider which reveals a potential feature for a future set of AirPods.
According to the patent, it suggests that in the future, AirPods could be on the lookout for specific code words that could temporarily deactivate noise-cancellation. So for example, that code word could be your name, but in order to avoid accidentally deactivating noise-cancellation for other people in the room who might share your name, Apple suggests trying to match it with a pre-authorized contact.
This means that if you put your parents as pre-authorized contacts, if the AirPods hear your name being called and the voice matches those of your parents, it would then pause noise-cancellation, but it will ignore those calls if it’s from someone else.
It’s actually a very interesting patent albeit a complicated one. It would be rather annoying having to record voice samples from everyone who may or may not interrupt you when your AirPods are on, wouldn’t it? Either way as with most patents, it’s hard to say if this will become an actual feature, but in the meantime what do you think about it?
Future AirPods Could Pause Noise-Cancellation When A Certain Code Word Is Spoken
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Jan 25
We have heard some rumors previously that Apple could be working on a new Mac mini refresh. Now according to leakster Dylandkt, that refresh could be happening in the next few months as apparently it will be launching in Apple’s Spring event which is expected to take place possibly around April.
The Spring event is expected to host several new Apple products, such as the iPhone SE 5G, a new iPad Air, and the rumored Mac mini refresh. We’re particularly excited about this one because it seems that Apple could be working to make the computer even more powerful by giving it M1 Pro and Max configurations.
Yep, a new design is coming.
— Dylan (@dylandkt) January 23, 2022
This means that if you wanted a powerful desktop computer but want to use your own display instead of an all-in-one like the iMac, then this refresh could be worth looking forward to. Dylandkt also corroborates claims that we heard previously that the Mac mini could actually be refreshed.
The current design of the Mac mini is rather understated and relatively nondescript, which isn’t a bad thing, but at the same time we wouldn’t mind seeing an updated design. Also, the addition of the M1 Pro and Max configurations should make it pretty powerful based on what we’ve seen in reviews of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros.
Mac Mini Refresh Reportedly Coming This Spring
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Jan 25
The Fox News reporter had just asked the president if he thought inflation would be a “liability” ahead of the midterm elections.
Jan 25
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Jan 25
Google is said to be developing a new Chromecast aimed at folks who haven’t splurged on a 4K TV. According to Protocol, the low-end device will harness the Google TV interface and include a remote, as well as a maximum resolution of 1080p.
The device, which could be named Chromecast HD with Google TV, is said to be capable of decoding the AV1 video codec (something the 4K-capable Chromecast with Google TV doesn’t support at the hardware level). It seems likely that, given the lower resolution output, the device will cost less than the $50 Chromecast with Google TV.
It’s been over three years since Google unveiled its third-gen 1080p Chromecast. That device, which is still available for $30, doesn’t come with a remote and nor does it offer any native apps. Given that Roku and Amazon sell 1080p streaming devices for under $50, it’s probably about time Google introduced a lower-end Chromecast with the Google TV UI, a remote and perhaps even Stadia compatibility.
It’s not the first time we’ve heard about a Chromecast dongle with the codename “Boreal.” 9to5 Google last week reported Google was working on a device with that name, but no specs were mentioned.
It’s not clear if or when Google plans to release the Chromecast HD with Google TV (or whatever it’s called). It doesn’t seem quite splashy enough to be showcased at the annual fall hardware event, but, as Protocol notes, the company has debuted some devices at its I/O developer conference, which typically takes place in May. Other recent rumors suggest the first Google-branded smartwatch and the Pixel 6a could arrive around that time.
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