The Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon 855 is a significant improvement over the older Adreno 530 in the Snapdragon 821. It increases compute throughput while still working within a constrained power and thermal envelope. The GPU has six Shader Processors (SPs) compared to the Adreno 530's four, and Qualcomm reorganized the GPU to avoid replicating other hardware resources in a similar manner. ...

In 1861, a railway engineer named John White was buried in a cast iron coffin and transformed into blue due to the formation of vivianite. This occurs when phosphate from the body combines with iron and water in a waterlogged, oxygen-poor environment. The formation of vivianite is aided by bacteria that dissolve iron and phosphate and direct the growth of blue crystals. The skin of Ötzi the ...

The Lisp programming language is known for its powerful syntax and metaprogramming capabilities. However, it also has some limitations, such as the need for prefix notation and the fact that some syntax is unchangeable. The Brainfuck programming language is a concatenative language that also has some limitations, such as the need for look-ahead and the introduction of the left and right ...

The article describes a port of Sebastian Aaltonen's OffsetAllocator package for C++ to 100% safe Rust. The port is a fast, simple, hard real-time allocator that is especially useful for managing GPU resources. The general algorithm used in the crate is agnostic to what it's allocating and uses 256 bins with 8 bit floating point distribution to find the next available bin. The allocation ...

eSpeak NG is a compact open source text-to-speech synthesizer for Linux, Windows, Android, and other operating systems. It supports over 100 languages and accents and uses formant synthesis, allowing many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers. eSpeak NG also supports Klatt formant ...

Jane Street, a Wall Street trading firm, has released a bond prospectus for its latest bond sale. The prospectus provides insight into the company's growth and dominance in various trading markets. Jane Street is particularly strong in ETF market-making, with monthly trading volumes averaging $527bn in 2023, accounting for 14% of US ETF trading volumes and 20% of European ETF volumes. The ...

Image interpolation is a technique used to guess pixels between pixels in an image. Bilinear and bicubic are common interpolations. Bilinear makes the image continuous but not smooth, while bicubic smudges the image but makes it smooth. Inverse weight interpolation is a close relative of SWInE and is used for image interpolation. The formula for inverse weight interpolation is a weighted sum ...

We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced engineering tech lead who thrives in early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship new customer-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence and input. The right candidate will have a high degree of versatility and excels at ...

The article discusses the benefits of using Uno Platform for building cross-platform .NET UIs. Uno Platform offers a modern XAML-centric syntax or declarative-style C# Markup, as well as state management and easy testing. It also provides access to hundreds of UI components and native controls for a polished look and behavior. The platform is battle-tested and offers user-familiar native UIs ...

Teranoptia is a typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard. Its design has been inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and by medieval illustrations, as well as by children's books. You can use it to create border ornaments, to daydream about monsters or just to spice your layouts with marginalia.

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Cold boot attacks can break software-based disk encryption when an attacker has physical access to a powered-on device, including android smartphones. different key recovery algorithms have been proposed in the past to break fde, such as bitlocker, dm-crypt, and also android's fde - this paper aims to close this gap and re-enable the forensic analysis of encrypted android disks, given an ...

NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global creative platform offering high-quality creative content for transformative brands, digital media and marketing companies, today announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Envato Pty Ltd. ("Envato"), a leader in digital creative assets and templates. Envato's flagship ...

Spotify chief daniel ek sees health care as a bloated and inefficient colossus in need of disrupting. he and co-founder christopher nilsonne have built 'neko health' to help people live longer and prevent disease - and prolong life. they've raised €30 million to expand clinics, but capital requirements are different from those of an app launching. the company's goal is to provide

Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) experienced a data breach on April 24th, resulting in unauthorized access to customer information including emails, usernames, phone numbers, hashed passwords, and authentication information. No evidence of unauthorized access to the contents of customers' accounts or payment information was found. The security team reset users' passwords, logged users out of ...

In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of being mentioned by Marvin Minksy as a book that everyone should know. In this post, I will try to see how we can ...

The Stripper Index, an unofficial economic index that measures consumer spending on a niche, micro-economic level, suggests that the American economy will be in a recession by the second half of 2024. Strippers, who rely on cash tips, are struggling right now, with many seeing significantly less money for an extended period of time. This is causing concern among economists, who are using the ...

Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and author, died last week. He was known for his work on consciousness and the idea that it is an illusion. The author of Consciousness Explained, Dennett believed that consciousness is a product of the brain and not a separate entity. The book argues that consciousness is an illusion, and that the perception of it is a result of the brain's activity. The book is ...

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital have identified a brain network crucial to human consciousness using advanced multimodal MRI techniques. The "default ascending arousal network" is vital for sustaining wakefulness and is linked with the cortical default mode network. The study has direct clinical applications, with ongoing clinical trials aimed at ...

The job postings are for various positions in different companies. Here's a summary of the positions and their requirements: 1. AuxHealth: REMOTE, USA - Full-time - Backend SDE I & II 2. Spacelift: REMOTE, Europe - Full-time - Senior Software Engineer 3. Happy Scribe: Onsite & Hybrid (Barcelona, Spain) - Engineer, Designer, ML 4. Overleaf: Full-time - Senior Full Stack Engineer 5. Aha!: ...

The article discusses the use of video demos to showcase product updates and the tools used to create them. ScreenStudio is mentioned as a popular tool for this purpose, with a one-time license purchase. The author also mentions other products in the space, such as Tella.tv, Kite, and Descript. The technical term for this type of content is motion graphics or motion design. The author ...

The article describes how to load and render complex scene hierarchies from glTF files using WebGPU. It explains the basic material model defined by glTF, which includes support for metallic and roughness properties, normal, emission, and occlusion texture maps. The article also discusses the extensions on top of this basic material model, such as the KHR_materials_* extensions. The article ...

Bob greene: in 1979, the fed announced new measures aimed at reining in inflation. he says the move re-established credibility for low inflation in the u.s. the measures were a response to treasury secretary's comments, argues green e.g., "unusual public communication" despite the change, inflation continued to decline for several years, says greene, who studied the issue in college

New algorithm solves a problem that was previously hard to solve. it's the result of several years of research by physicists and computer scientists - and physics gurus at uc daytona beach and the university of california at atlanta, florida. the researchers hope to apply the algorithm to other problems, such as detecting quantum effects in space and time. they say it could lead to

The provided information is a third-screen capture of a ransomware analysis report. The ransomware in question is LockBit v3, which is a variant of the BlackMatter ransomware family. The analysis report provides insights into the encryption algorithm used by LockBit v3, which is a modified version of Salsa20. The report also discusses the key stream reuse vulnerability, which allows for the ...

In 2002, Michael Gaeb, a German literary agent, traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico for a book fair. While browsing through the fair, he came across a book with a cover featuring a man in a kepi, painting in the Andes. The book was signed by César Aira, an Argentine author Gaeb had never heard of. That night in the hotel, before going out to a party, Gaeb read the novel, which is very short, with ...

The paper "KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks" presents a promising alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) called Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). KANs have strong mathematical foundations and are based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem. KANs and MLPs are dual, with activation functions on edges for KANs and nodes for MLPs. KANs are better than MLPs in terms of both model ...

The article describes a new approach to rendering music notation on the web using CSS Grid. The author defines two axes for the grid: the vertical axis, which is defined by the stave (staff) and has fixed-size grid rows, and the horizontal axis, which is defined by the time line and has a variable number of columns. The stave is defined by a class called ".stave" and has fixed-size grid rows ...

Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that quickly reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma in a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients. The vaccine uses the patient's own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine and harnesses an engineered complex lipid particle (LP) delivery mechanism, generating multi-lamellar LP ...