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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our last article, we recommended analyzing ransomware binaries as part of an effective ransomware response strategy: [...] However, it is worth investing in analyzing and understanding ransomware. Crypto breaking bugs may be rare, but they are not impossible to find. In addition, ransomware authors may not fully understand how to use crypto correctly. The only way to determine if it is ...

Typewise (Y Combinator S22) is a Swiss-American deep tech company, on a mission to make daily lives easier by decoding human thoughts. We build text prediction software that boosts productivity for customer service and sales by 2-3X. Our enterprise clients include Fortune 500 companies across Europe and the US. Our product is a browser extension (TypeScript-based) that empowers employees to ...

Researchers suggest that astronauts run around a "lunar Wall of Death" to prevent bone and muscle wasting in low gravity environments. The Wall of Death is a giant wooden cylinder used by motorcycle stunt performers, and can be rented for testing. Running at more than 8mph should be enough to generate enough lateral force to maintain good nervous system control. The idea is to house ...

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 ...

Tesla is rescinding internship offers just weeks before they were set to start, prompting aspiring employees to appeal to other employers on LinkedIn. The surprise calls from Tesla informing students that their offers no longer stand have left them without a lot of time to find replacement gigs for the summer. The decision to rescind intern offers is likely due to the massive layoffs ...

The article discusses the challenges of representing non-tree structures in query languages, such as self-joins, which require inlining or let-binding. Inlining involves duplicating the expression being referenced, while let-binding allows for recursion. The article also explores the use of lambda abstractions and fixpoint operators to represent graphs containing cycles. Datalog is mentioned ...

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 ...

Using neuroimaging, researchers identified a brain network crucial to human consciousness. Using advanced multimodal MRI techniques, the team mapped connections among the brainstem, thalamus, and cortex, forming what they call the “default ascending arousal network,” which is vital for sustaining wakefulness. Their research not only enhances our understanding of consciousness but also aims to ...

The article presents evidence for an early-ninth-century ritual fire-burning event at the Maya site of Ucanal, the capital of the K'anwitznal kingdom. The event occurred at the dawn of a new political era in the Maya Lowlands during the Terminal Classic period (c. AD 810–950). The article argues that the event marked a moment of change in the kingdom and in the Lowlands more generally, ...

Phastft is a fast and efficient fft implementation in pure rust. it can make use of latest cpu features such as avx-512, but performs well even without them. users can normalize outputs by scaling each element by 1/n, where n is the number of data points. the name, ph, comes from the implementation of the quantum circuit implementation (qc) of qft consists of phase gates and hadam

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 ...

Ruby gems such as PaperTrail and Audited are popular for building an audit trail in applications. PaperTrail and Audited integrate with the ActiveRecord object-relational mapper (ORM) by using model callbacks to allow auditing data changes. Logidze, Bemi Rails, and PublicActivity are other gems that integrate with different databases and offer different features. An audit trail is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that we can load up complex scene hierarchies from glTF files and render them correctly, let’s start getting some more interesting colors on screen! glTF defines a physically based BRDF, with support for metallic and roughness properties, along with normal, emission and occlusion texture maps. There are a number of extensions on top of this basic material model (the KHR_materials_* ...

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 ...

MIT Professor Brett McGuire's group has discovered a previously unknown molecule in space using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The molecule, 2-methoxyethanol, was detected in the star-forming region NGC 6334I and its abundance and excitation temperature were derived. The discovery of this large and complex molecule helps researchers understand the development of ...

The article discusses the author's experience with teaching their 11-year-old son basic programming concepts using Scratch. The author reflects on their own experience with HyperCard in the late 80s/early 90s and wonders if a modern equivalent exists. They mention Livecode, Python with QT support, Google's Blockly, and other options. The author also discusses their own experience with Python ...

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MongooseIM is Erlang Solutions' robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server, aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant and can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines. - Release MongooseIM 6.2.1 · esl/MongooseIM