Seeking to derail the roaring hype train for Nvidia’s imminent GeForce RTX 3080 launch, AMD teased the reference design for its own upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series “Big Navi” graphics cards on Monday, and it looks like nothing AMD has ever released before. AMD has caught a lot of flack for the design of its awful […]
How Amazon is using machine learning to eliminate 915,000 tons of packaging
Presented by AWS Machine Learning Amazon’s 2019 Climate Pledge calls for a commitment to net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040. Since then, the company has reduced the weight of their outbound packaging by 33%, eliminating 915,000 tons of packaging material worldwide, or the equivalent of over 1.5 billion shipping boxes. With less packaging […]
How To Preorder Nvidia RTX 3090, 3080, 3070
The GeForce RTX 3000 series has Nvidia doing its best to target anyone who hasn’t upgraded their gaming rig. All of the RTX 3000 cards are more powerful than the company’s current flagship GPU, the RTX 2080 Ti, making this year’s line of cards particularly enticing. Nvidia recently released a Doom Eternal gameplay benchmark comparing […]
Dashlane can now track employees’ password health over time
Password management platform Dashlane is introducing a new tool that gives businesses historical perspective on the health of their employees’ passwords. The launch comes as a record number of people are working from home, a trend that was in the making before the COVID-19 crisis boosted momentum. Having more people working remotely increases the risk […]
Xbox Series X And S Preorder Info: Where To Preorder, Price, And More
The launch of the next generation of Xbox consoles is just a couple of months away. Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X during last year’s Game Awards and has been trickling out information about the system ever since, including its games lineup, a look at the new Xbox Wireless Controller, the console’s build and specs, […]
Orchard raises $69 million to develop machine learning for buying and selling homes
Orchard has raised $69 million in venture capital to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated. Revolution Growth led the round of funding, which also included money from FirstMark, Navitas, Accomplice, and Juxtapose. The company has now raised a total of $138 million, a sign […]
Iron Ox raises $20 million to grow robotic greenhouse operations
Robotics farming company Iron Ox today announced the close of a $20 million funding round. The funding will be used to open additional robotic growing facilities in California and other parts of the U.S., according to company cofounder and CEO Brandon Alexander. The funding will also be used to hire additional machine learning and robotics […]
Xbox Series X And Series S: Where To Preorder, Price, And More
We’re now just a couple of months away from the release of the next-generation Xbox consoles. Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X during last year’s Game Awards and has been trickling out information about the system ever since, including its games lineup, a look at the new Xbox Wireless Controller, the console’s build and specs, […]
Researchers find cutting-edge language models fall short in basic reasoning
Even sophisticated language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 struggle with socially important topics like morality, history, and law. That’s the top-line finding from a new paper coauthored by Columbia, University of Chicago, and University of California, Berkeley researchers that proposes a 57-task test to measure models’ ability to reason. Models must possess problem-solving abilities and […]
NIST benchmarks show facial recognition technology still struggles to identify Black faces
Every few months, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) releases the results of benchmark tests it conducts on facial recognition algorithms submitted by companies, universities, and independent labs. A portion of these tests focus on demographic performance — that is, how often the algorithms misidentify a Black man as a white man, […]