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Source: Venture Beat Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20789727/acastro_200729_1777_nintendo_0001.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune")
Source: The Verge Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. “Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to…
Source: Venture Beat Digic Studios shares insights with GamesBeat on an unsung part of game development: How do you make a trailer for a video game? Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23982579/acastro_STK466_01.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Snap employees were well aware of the app’s child safety issues, newly unsealed complaint says")
Source: The Verge “By November 2022, Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each month, while acknowledging that these reports ‘likely represent a small fraction of this abuse’ given the shame and other barriers to reporting,” says a newly unsealed version of the lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s Attorney General against Snap. This…
Source: Venture Beat Sometimes, the LLMs have the internal knowledge to self-correct their responses. They just need the right training technique to use it. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25653388/juno_youtube_vision_pro.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Christian Selig’s Juno app for streaming YouTube on the Vision Pro has been removed")
Source: The Verge Juno is just a web view, and acts as little more than a browser extension that modifies CSS to make the website and video player look more “visionOS” like. No logos are placed other than those already on the website, and the “for YouTube” suffix is permitted in their branding guidelines. I stated…
Source: Venture Beat The new Pikaffects can transform imagery and pre-recorded video subjects into bizarrely malleable versions of themselves. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the Unreal Fest Seattle event today with an update on news that included a blistering criticism of monopolistic platform owners. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24020915/226270_IPHONE_14_REGULAR_PHO_akrales_0657.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The next iPhone SE may lose the home button, add Face ID and Apple Intelligence")
Source: The Verge That the new iPhone SE models may support Apple Intelligence says a lot about their performance — it takes a lot of RAM to run local AI features, for instance. They’re expected to look like the iPhone 14, doing away with the chunky top and bottom bezels and the home button; both…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25343252/STK083_B_NVIDIA_C.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Nvidia’s all-in-one app will replace GeForce Experience later this year")
Source: The Verge Nvidia’s beta app for its GPUs is nearing its journey to a full release, and the company says it intends to “migrate all remaining GeForce Experience users” to the new app before the end of the year. Today, Nvidia added a few more features to get the app ready, including the ability…
