It’s a problem that will be repeated in other places over the coming decade. As astronomers construct giant cameras to image the entire sky and launch infrared telescopes to hunt for distant... Read more »

The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% of the tokens are in non-English languages, says Deedy Das, an AI investor at Menlo Ventures. He used language filters to... Read more »

Enter cuddly robots. The most famous are Golden Pup, a robotic golden retriever toy that cocks its head, barks and wags its tail, and Paro the seal, which can sense touch, light,... Read more »

That’s how I discovered the Golden Pup from Joy for All. It cocks its head. It sports a jaunty red bandana. It barks when you talk. It wags when you touch it.... Read more »

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Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know. The summer of 2023 in the Northern Hemisphere was the hottest in over 2,000 years, according to a new study... Read more »

Meanwhile, after the fires, Filipino families faced particularly stark barriers to getting information about financial support, government assistance, housing, and DNA testing. Filipinos make up about 25% of Hawaii’s population and 40%... Read more »

It’s taken several decades of work and hundreds of scientists to develop the records that researchers used for this new paper, said Max Torbenson, one of the authors of the study, on... Read more »