Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang promotes the concept of 'Sovereign AI' wherein each country controls its own AI infrastructure to protect its culture and own its data.
Huang suggests customizing AI models to each country's needs and believes that computing technologies should be created to eliminate the need for programming. [ more ]
Empower Your Team with This $40 Visual Studio Deal | Entrepreneur
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 is available for a limited time at a discounted price of $39.97, enabling streamlined workflows and increased productivity. [ more ]
Stadium card stunts and the art of programming a crowd
Card stunts performed by stadium audiences are like temporary billboards created by following short command sequences.
A new book, Code to Joy, highlights the importance of learning programming as a way to understand and navigate the growing influence of machines in our lives. [ more ]
The Overlook Film Festival 2024 Highlights, Part 1: Fasterpiece Theater, Exhuma, All You Need is Death, Me | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
Berg's skills in editing and programming highlighted during film festival Q&A, showcasing his rhythmic & 'symphonic' editing style, humor, and ability to make strange movies entertaining. [ more ]
TypeScript introduces decorators in the 5.0 update, allowing developers to apply logic to classes and their properties, methods, or parameters at design time.
TypeScript decorators have extensive decoration capabilities, legacy support for parameter decoration, and robust type checking.
Decorators can be used to enhance or modify the behavior of classes, methods, properties, accessors, and parameters. [ more ]
Celebrating Herstory With The Women of Farragut Houses
The Farragut Stakeholders Group hosted a successful women's 'Herstory' champagne brunch at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The event featured a panel of powerful women building Brooklyn, performances, networking opportunities, and various programming for residents. [ more ]
The Brooklyn Museum is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a year-long series of programming and exhibitions.
The museum will focus on reinterpreting its collection, highlighting Brooklyn artists, and centering Black feminist and BIPOC perspectives on American art history. [ more ]
Bushwick Inlet Park to hold third annual summer music series * Brooklyn Paper
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann Search our comprehensive guide to things to do in Brooklyn for more local events - or submit your own! Musical maestros and graceful dancers will once again take over Bushwick Inlet Park this summer, as the greenspace's third-annual summer music series will kick off on June 22 - bringing the best tunes and loads of cheer to the park every Thursday evening.
City officials say events this weekend can proceed, as smoky haze clears out of NYC | amNewYork
Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams The city has given the greenlight for weekend events to move forward as smoky conditions that have shrouded the city in recent days begin to dissipate, officials said during a briefing Friday.Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city's health commissioner, said weekend events such as the Governors Ball Musical Festival and the Belmont Stakes can proceed as planned.
The 'Tour of Heroes' app is a tutorial app for Angular 2+ that demonstrates functional and technical features of building a real-world business application.
This series of articles explores the experiences of building the 'Tour of Heroes' app on different frontend development platforms, including Angular, Aurelia, React, Vue, Xamarin, and MAUI. [ more ]
The Scala community had a strong participation in the Advent of Code 2023, with increased engagement in the Scala Discord and on the solutions website.
The Scala Center aims to communicate excitement about Scala and improve the onboarding experience for newcomers by showcasing elegant solutions on their website. [ more ]
The Scala community had a strong participation in the Advent of Code 2023, with increased engagement in the Scala Discord and on the solutions website.
The Scala Center aims to communicate excitement about Scala and improve the onboarding experience for newcomers by showcasing elegant solutions on their website. [ more ]
At CNN, it's all news, no schmooze with your morning coffee - Poynter
CNN is canceling its morning chat show, 'CNN This Morning,' and focusing on offering more straight news coverage.
Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson wants to capitalize on the trend of people using smartphones for news consumption and believes that CNN's current programming has an 'old-fashioned and unadventurous feel.' [ more ]
Matz and DHH, the creators of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, respectively, were unable to score a perfect score on an online quiz that tested their knowledge of the two technologies.
The author fell in love with Ruby on Rails over a decade ago and still enjoys working with it today. [ more ]
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OMA envelopes Buffalo art museum extension in transparent "veil"
OMA's New York office led by architect Shohei Shigematsu has completed an expansion to Buffalo's AKG Art Museum that features a promenade encased in a glass facade.Architecture studio OMA added the Jeffrey E Gundlach Building to the complex of buildings that make up Buffalo's AKG Art Museum - an institution that lies on a park designed by American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the northern part of the city.
Samsung Bespoke Family Hub+ Refrigerator With 32-inch Screen
The earliest versions of Samsung's Family Hub refrigerators offered what many considered little more than a tablet inset into a refrigerator door experience.But remember, Samsung is the same company that lead the charge with super-sizing phones, nearly single-handedly creating the market for large screen mobile devices known then as "phablets."
Anne Mooney Shares a Love of Materials, a Labyrinth + Ceramics
Anne Mooney, FAIA, LEED AP and founding principal at Salt Lake City- and Los Angeles-based Sparano + Mooney Architecture, knew from her very first design studio course that the industry was meant for her."The work excited and engaged me in a way nothing else had," she said."The late nights and intensely rigorous work somehow energized me and tapped into a level of creativity that I hadn't recognized in me before.
Michael Maltzan completes revamp of LA's Hammer Museum
A new lobby and sculpture terrace are among the final additions to a Los Angeles art museum that was strategically revamped over a 23-year period by local studio Michael Maltzan Architecture.Located in the city's Westwood neighbourhood, the Hammer Museum is housed in a rectilinear, stone-clad building designed by American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and completed in 1990.
The 'Tour of Heroes' app is a tutorial app for Angular 2+ that demonstrates functional and technical features of building a real-world business application.
This series of articles explores the experiences of building the 'Tour of Heroes' app on different frontend development platforms, including Angular, Aurelia, React, Vue, Xamarin, and MAUI. [ more ]
The 'Tour of Heroes' app is a tutorial app for Angular 2+ that demonstrates functional and technical features of building a real-world business application.
This series of articles explores the experiences of building the 'Tour of Heroes' app on different frontend development platforms, including Angular, Aurelia, React, Vue, Xamarin, and MAUI. [ more ]
The White Sox (30-41) look to bounce back from last night's disappointing loss against the Mariners (34-34) - which seems to be a habit at this point.The good news is we have an exciting pitching matchup on the mound this afternoon, with Lucas Giolito facing off against Logan Gilbert in his 15th start of the year.
New Stadium for Blackhawks, Bulls & White Sox? TV broadcasts have new option
A potential new home for Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox broadcasts was hiding in plain sight.This week, Front Office Sports reported that Bulls and Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf acquired majority control of the multiplatform sports network Stadium from Sinclair Broadcast Group, with whom he had partnered through his sports media company Silver Chalice.
In 2021, Judge Judith Sheindlin, the razor-tongued court show star, decamped from the dying medium of daytime broadcast syndication and joined Amazon for a streaming-era experiment.Fewer people were watching traditional daytime television, including programs like Judge Judy.Was it because they were tired of the content?
In 2021, Judge Judith Sheindlin, the razor-tongued court show star, decamped from the dying medium of daytime broadcast syndication and joined Amazon for a streaming-era experiment.Fewer people were watching traditional daytime television, including programs like Judge Judy.Was it because they were tired of the content?
Italy Eyeing State-Backed Fund to Promote AI Startups
In a bid to boost native AI startups, Italy is eyeing a state-backed fund to promote its own market.According to Reuters, the Italian government plans to set up an investment fund backed by state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to promote startup investments in AI.According to a statement by Cabinet Undersecretary Alessio Butti, this will " promote study, research, and programming on AI in Italy."
Tunisians Mourn a Hard-Fought Freedom Rapidly Slipping Away
Mosaique FM, Tunisia's most popular radio station, comes to life each morning around 5:30 a.m. with the martial strains of the national anthem.Next comes a voice crooning a verse from the Quran, then music and news, followed by the political show Watch What They Say, which has chronicled the floundering of the country's young democracy and its recent U-turn toward autocracy.
In Barcelona, City of Mega-Festivals, Small Venues Struggle
On a recent Friday night, a few dozen 20-somethings piled into Sidecar, a well-known concert venue in downtown Barcelona.The small space, with a low vaulted ceiling, was only half-full, but onstage, the singer Inigo Merino and his band were determined to show their audience a good time.The crowd sang along to Merino's catchy pop songs, which he interspersed with anecdotes, jokes and personal stories.
'Spread Love' Brings a 'Pleasure Revolution' to Fort Greene Park, Public Housing
On a recent foggy evening, members of a Brooklyn arts group dragged chairs into a circle in a Fort Greene performance space to hear from their new artist in residence, Pia Monique Murray.Next to a whiteboard, Murray, 40, stood elegant as a prima ballerina in a green turtleneck, black leggings with socks over top, and a high bun, brandishing a blue marker.
A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music
This past week, I did something with a classical music concert that I have often enjoyed at jazz clubs: I hung back to hear the same program again when it returned for a second set.It was opening night of the inaugural Sono Fest!, founded and programmed by the jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson, and running through June 23 at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn.
Dell Precision 5470 review: a wolf in sheep's clothing
I'll be honest, Dell devices don't fill me with excitement.My first laptop was a Dell, and, because I didn't know how to use or look after it properly, the very limited memory quickly became clogged up with all sorts and it often took over 30 minutes just to load the home screen.While this was not exactly Dell's fault, the frustration of this time is etched in my memory, as I swore never to use a Dell laptop again.
When the composer and vocalist Jen Wang took the stage at the Monk Space in Los Angeles to perform Alvin Lucier's The Duke of York (1971) earlier this year, she sang with a digital rendition of her voice, synthesized by artificial intelligence.It was the first time she had done that.I thought it was going to be really disorienting, Wang said in an interview, but it felt like I was collaborating with this instrument that was me and was not me.
Low-Bar vs. High-Bar Squats: What's the Best Lower-Body Builder for You? - Breaking Muscle
A slight change in technique delivers massively different results.Squats are probably the first exercise a person ever performs - simply standing up from the ground.This is likely why squats are often dubbed as the king of exercises.Indeed, they are one of the best, if not the best exercises to develop lower body size, strength, and power while making you a universally stronger athlete with a core of steel.
World Trade Center Arts Space to Open With Music, Theater and Dance
As the marble-clad, cube-like Perelman Performing Arts Center has taken shape at the World Trade Center site, questions have swirled about what will actually happen inside.Some answers came on Wednesday, when the center announced a first year of programming that will feature original work, including the premiere of an autobiographical play written by and starring the actor Laurence Fishburne called Like They Do in the Movies, as well as partnerships, including with the Tribeca Festival.
Lincoln Center, Seeking New Audiences, Plans to Remake Its West Edge
Lincoln Center welcomes visitors at its main entrance facing Broadway with an elegant plaza, a majestic fountain and an array of travertine concert halls and theaters.But the view from the center's western edge, along Amsterdam Avenue, is far less convivial: An imposing wall stretches across several blocks, giving the feel of a fortress.
Michelle Ebanks, who most recently served as the president of Essence Communications, the global media and communications company dedicated to Black women, will be the next president and chief executive of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the organization announced on Tuesday.I have a deep understanding of the value of cultural institutions and their profound impact on individual lives and society, and the Apollo Theater as one of the nation's greatest cultural institutions, Ebanks said in an interview on Monday.
At This Staten Island Garden, the Plants Are All Queer
The Alice Austen House in Staten Island celebrates the life of the trailblazing photographer Alice Austen, who lived there in the mid-19th and early-20th centuries.The stately house by the bay, now a National Historic Landmark, has stunning views of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and features a selection of some 7,000 photographs taken by Ms. Austen of New York City in the Victorian era.
Descriptors are not black magic and this article will show you that.In fact, you use descriptors every day and you don't even know it.(If you are new here and have no idea what a Pydon't is, you may want to read the Pydon't Manifesto.)Descriptors are a piece of the Python world that many will declare as "obscure", "dark magic", or "too complex to bother learning".
Canada's Wildfires Are a Warning of the East Coast's Smoky Future
CLIMATEWIRE | Wildfires are still raging in eastern Canada, even as much of their smoke has dissipated from the northeastern United States.And as long as those fires continue burning, there's a risk the smoke may simply be directed towards other areas of the U.S.," according to the National Weather Service.
Hey there ???? We have a few updates to share!TL;DR version: Our programme has been finalised, remote tickets are up for sale and we have a whole bunch of fun events and workshops planned throughout the course of the conference.???? Programme Our list of sessions with the selected talk, tutorials and posters are out now on https://ep2023.europython.eu/sessions.
Wing Tips: Source Assistant in Wing Pro - Wing Python IDE
Wing Tips: Source Assistant in Wing Pro
This Wing Tip introduces the Source Assistant tool in Wing Pro, which provides context-sensitive at-your-fingertips code intelligence and documentation as you navigate through or write Python code.The Source Assistant is where Wing Pro shows details about the type of a symbol, including documentation, call signature, and information about object inheritance and overridden methods.
Wing Tips: Live Interactive Python Coding in Wing Pro - Wing Python IDE
Wing Tips: Live Interactive Python Coding in Wing Pro
This Wing Tip describes how to use the debugger in Wing Pro to write new Python code with direct access to the runtime state that the code is intended for, so you can immediately try out the code that you write.This is a far more efficient way to write most code, compared with working offline.
Wing Tips: Auto Completion in Wing Pro - Wing Python IDE
Wing Tips: Auto Completion in Wing Pro
In this issue of Wing Tips we introduce Wing Pro's auto-completer, which can be used to find and more quickly enter symbols, imports, and snippets into Python code.By default, Wing shows the auto-completer as you type in the editor, populating the completer with whatever code symbols and snippets are relevant to the particular context you are working in.
Does CNN's Turmoil Mean There's No Room on Cable for Independent News?
The Warner Bros. Discovery chief, David Zaslav, was clear from the day he took control of CNN in 2022 about what he wanted for the cable news network.Publicly and privately he told associates, reporters and whoever else might care that he wanted to move the network away from what he viewed as left-leaning advocacy and toward more balance.
Tucker Carlson's First 'Show' On Twitter Has Been Seen 35 Million Times - Social Media Explorer
WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 29, Fox News' Tucker Carlson talks about 'Populism and the Right" during ... [+] Getty Images Former Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson reached an audience that any cable news network executive would kill for - as his debut 10-minute video captioned "Ep.1" of the brand new "Tucker on Twitter" was seen more than 35 million times by Wednesday morning.
Want to quit everything and set up your own studio? Anna Hollinrake did
Leaving a stable job to pursue your dreams can be a daunting decision filled with uncertainty and fear.For some creatives, the allure of starting a game studio and bringing an artistic vision to life is too strong to resist.For video game artist Anna Hollinrake the temptation of following her "North Star" was too much.
Poor air quality, high pollution levels persist in Toronto amid wildfire smoke | CBC News
For the third day in a row, Toronto is under a special weather statement for high levels of pollution in the air and climate and environment experts say while the city's multi-day air event is unprecedented, residents should anticipate that smoky conditions could become a more frequent occurrence.Environment Canada had previously predicted Thursday's air would be the worst experienced in the city this week, brought on by wildfires in Quebec an other parts of Ontario.
Ottawa to provide $1.5M in emergency funding to ensure Pride festivals stay safe across Canada | CBC News
The federal government will provide $1.5 million in emergency funding to ensure Pride festivals across the country remain safe, a cabinet minister said on Monday.Marci Ien, minister for women and gender equality and youth, said in Ottawa that the money will be provided to Fierte Canada Pride, a national association that represents Pride organizations in Canada.
Crave to launch ad-supported tier this summer | CBC News
Crave is making room for commercial breaks on its streaming service.After years as an exclusively advertisement-free subscription platform, Bell Media says it plans to launch new Crave tiers sometime this summer that include commercials during programming.Shows that will be offered in the ad tiers include classic sitcoms Friends and The Big Bang Theory, the Canadian comedy Letterkenny and some of its HBO programming.
On Wednesday, Chris Licht's turbulent tenure at CNN was abruptly cut short, just over a year after he stepped into the top job.The network will be managed on an interim basis by a group of three editorial executives Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley and Eric Sherling until a permanent replacement for Mr. Licht is found.
Google's DeepMind develops a system that writes efficient algorithms
1. Google's DeepMind AI has developed a system that is capable of writing efficient algorithms.
2. This system works by analyzing existing algorithms and then writing new ones that are more efficient.
3. This is an important development in the field of AI, as it could potentially lead to improved computer performance and better problem-solving capabilities. [ more ]
Chicago AM radio stations at risk as auto industry evolves
When Ford announced it would stop installing AM radios in its vehicles this spring, it generated so much static among station owners, listeners and legislators that the automaker quickly reversed course.But with Tesla and a growing number of EV manufacturers banishing the original car radio from their high-tech digital dashboards and into the audio graveyard occupied by eight-track players and CD changers, a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday began debating the merits of proposed legislation to make AM receivers standard equipment in all new vehicles.
A query function lets you use data commands to shape your data in Google Sheets, making it an important function.The query function is so helpful because it can replace the work of many other commands and replicate the functionality of pivot tables (a table that lets you group, compare, and summarize larger data sets).
When working with Python, we often have to deal with data in the form of numbers or words.Sometimes, words and numbers are stored together, and our needs compel us to separate numbers from words.In this article, we'll explain how to define words and numbers in Python.Then, we'll see how to separate numbers from words, in case they're stored together, using different methods and in various situations.
Campus jobs are a lifeline for these CSU students. Some are looking to form a union
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Cameron Macedonio clocks 30 to 40 hours each week running Cal State Fullerton's campus radio station, Titan Radio.As general manager, he oversees a 12-person staff and dozens of disc jockeys for the 24-hour broadcast, at a salary of $15.50 an hour.But the Cal State system only allows students to work 20 hours a week - so Macedonio doesn't get compensated for much of the time he puts in.
Manson follower Leslie Van Houten could be freed after court overrules Newsom
(Stan Lim / Los Angeles Daily News via Associated Press)
Leslie Van Houten, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson who took part in murders on his orders, is entitled to parole after spending more than 50 years behind bars, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday, reversing Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to deny her release.
June 2, 2023 Each Friday, we compile South Florida food-related news and events that we couldn't fit on the site earlier in the week, as well as other local news that piques our interest.Want to be included in our next roundup?Shoot us an email at bark@miamifoodpug.com.Eating House Adds Saturday BrunchNew Programming at LPMPEZ Reopens in Downtown MiamiWorld Oceans Day at YOTEL Miami Eating House Adds Saturday Brunch Starting this weekend, Eating House will begin serving brunch on Saturdays, in addition to Sundays, from 11am to 3pm.
Story time When I go on vacation with a fellow Python developer, inevitably I will talk about Python.???? Back in September, Andrea and I drove the Cabot Trail with our friends Dusty and Jen, which led to a discussion about the statement and how Dusty and I both wished more people would use the syntax.
From Mumbai to Mississippi, improving health for marginalized populations
June 1, 2023 - Every strawberry season in Mumbai, India, Disha Jhaveri's parents get a knock on the door from a local strawberry vendor, there to gift them fruit as thanks for their daughter, the dentist who provided him free care."I was buying strawberries from him on my way home one day and he was telling me he had so much tooth pain he was unable to eat," Jhaveri said.
Speak of An Angel and You'll Hear Her Wings - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Meet Saphia, a young bell hooks fanatic trying desperately to build a good life in New York City.Constantly immersed in the latest idea she has discovered while reading hooks, Saphia is determined to figure out how to apply these liberatory ideals to her own life.But the one thing she doesn't account for is a little surprise encouragement from the legend herself.