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Training agents to invent a language
In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.
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PyPy v5.8 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.8 (an interpreter supporting Python 2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.8 (an inte...
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Managed SSL for Google App Engine
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine . This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication — an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a…
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Cirque du Soleil acquires Blue Man Group
Latest news section of our press room where media representatives can find some various news about Cirque du Soleil, its shows and activities.
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ACLU and EFF Sue Over Warrantless Phone and Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
Lawsuit on Behalf of 11 Travelers Challenges Searches of Electronic Devices as Unconstitutional
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220,000 cores and counting: largest ever public cloud job
An MIT researcher recently broke the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs , the largest known high-performance computing cluster to ever run in the public cloud.
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ZFS from a MySQL perspective
As the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. Yves Trudeau reconsiders the use of ZFS with MySQL.
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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Brian Aldiss has died
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Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext
Google recently launched GPUs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which will allow customers to leverage this hardware for highly parallel workloads. These GPUs are connected to our cloud machines via a variety of PCIe switches, and that required us to have a deep understanding of PCIe security.
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UC Berkeley makes course video content unavailable to public
Here is additional information about upcoming changes to UC Berkeley’s library of legacy public Course Capture (classroom lecture) content
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Time to Encrypt the Cloud
From typing a business letter to taking pictures with friends, the internet has changed every part of our lives. We don't just share information with people, we also want it synced across our computers, tablets, and phones.
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Fedora 26 released
[This message comes from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader directly. Happy release day! — Ed.] Hi everyone! I’m incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26. Read more below, or just jump to download from: Get Fedora 26 Workstation Get Fedora 26 Server Get Fedora 26 Atomic Host ← includes…
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Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes
The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server…
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Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
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Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour
Facebook published a paper today detailing how they are able to train nearly 1.3 million images in under an hour using 256 Tesla P100 GPUs that previously took days on a single system.
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Free Data Recovery of Wet Phones and Hard Drives for Hurricane Harvey Victims
Visit our Press Release page to get more details concerning the latest as well as upcoming news in our DriveSavers company. Click here to read.
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Hacker News Highlights: January 2017
Here are some of our favorite recent posts on Hacker News. Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13317716] A handful of quantum computing researchers bump into each other. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13317716] A large slab of ice is breaking off an…
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Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
The next release of Android is officially here and comes with some superhero powers to help you get the most from your device.