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Mar 09 2025TECHNOLOGY

Unlocking PDFs: The New Tool for AI

Imagine having a tool that can transform any PDF into a format that AI can easily understand. That's exactly what Mistral OCR does. This new API, launched by a French company, is designed to make complex PDFs more accessible to AI models. It uses optical character recognition (OCR) to convert PDFs i

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Mar 09 2025TECHNOLOGY

Turing's Big Leap: From Hiring Coders to Shaping AI

Turing, a company that started as a platform for hiring remote coders, has just raised a whopping $111 million. This isn't just any funding round; it's a Series E round that has doubled their valuation to $2. 2 billion. Imagine that! The company is now worth over two billion dollars. Turing didn't

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Mar 09 2025TECHNOLOGY

Supersonic Jet Breaks Sound Barrier

Imagine flying from New York to Los Angeles in just a few hours. That's the dream that Boom Supersonic is chasing. On February 10, their experimental jet, the XB-1, zoomed through the sky faster than the speed of sound. This wasn't just any flight; it was a big deal because it showed that supersonic

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Mar 08 2025TECHNOLOGY

Motion Magic: Teaching Machines to Learn from Moving Pictures

Imagine teaching a machine to understand the world by watching a continuous stream of videos. This is not as simple as it sounds. The data is always changing, making it hard to learn effectively. But, there are unique chances to create useful representations that match the flow of information. This

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Pixel 9a: Google's New Phone with a Smooth Back

Google's upcoming phone, the Pixel 9a, is making waves with its new design. The most noticeable change is the almost flat camera bump on the back. This is a big deal because Google is known for its distinctive camera bar. The new design is sleek and modern, with a slight curve at the edges. This mak

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Smart Farming: Keeping Food Safe and Storage Costs Low

Food safety is a global priority. Blockchain technology has revolutionized how we track food from fields to plates. However, traditional blockchain systems have a downside: they keep expanding with new data, leading to increased storage needs and higher costs. Now, imagine a system that can

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Big Tech's Big Moves: AI, Layoffs, and a New Alexa

OpenAI has just dropped its biggest AI model yet, called GPT-4. 5. This isn't just any model; it's a beast trained on more data and computing power than ever before. The rollout is a bit staggered because they ran out of GPUs. It's a big deal, and it's already available to some users. The AI wo

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft and OpenAI: The UK's Competition Watchdog Steps Back

OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI tool ChatGPT, has been in the spotlight for a while. They made waves in the tech world with a product that stood out from the rest. But, like any big name, they've had their share of drama. One of these incidents even led to an antitrust investigation in the

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Are Academic Books Getting the Credit They Deserve?

Academic books are often overlooked when it comes to measuring their impact. Microsoft Academic is a powerful tool that can help. It is a vast database that can track citations for academic books. It has been proven to be useful for tracking citations for journal articles. It is now being tested

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Mar 07 2025TECHNOLOGY

Seeing More: A Fresh Approach to Image Tagging

Image classification with multiple labels is like trying to find all the hidden objects in a single picture. Most researchers flatten 2D images into 1D lines to find patterns, but this approach can miss important details about where things are in the image. This is where the Dual Relation Transforme

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