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Heaven help the young guitarist who wants a new Strat in 2023; searching the Fender USA website today gives you no less than 74 different options, some coming in as many as nine different colors. There are Player Strats and Player Plus Strats, Made in Japans and Japanese Vintage reissues. There are American Performers, American Professionals, American Ultras, American Vintage IIs and American Ultra Luxes. That's not all, there are also dizzying arrays of artist signature and limited edition models. There are weird…

Who was J Robert Oppenheimer? A physicist famously referred to as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, yes. But aside from him developing nuclear warfare, I have no idea. I stepped into Christopher Nolan’s most dizzyingly challenging work yet with no prior knowledge of who Oppenheimer was, what his story was, or the specifics and significance of what he did. I was hoping the movie – which is based on Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin’s book American Prometheus – would tell me. Also read: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer sells…

A recent study revealed that tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug used for severe post-childbirth bleeding, is safe and reaches therapeutic levels promptly when administered intramuscularly, and also is well-tolerated in oral form, though it takes longer to reach therapeutic blood concentrations. By providing TXA through multiple routes, including intramuscular and oral administration, this life-saving treatment can potentially become more accessible to all women globally, particularly in low and middle-income countries where…

Image Source : AMAZON Hey Disney! Amazon and Disney have announced that the new voice assistant 'Hey Disney!' is now officially available for Echo devices in the US. The new voice assistant is built on Alexa technology and is also referred to as the 'Disney Magical Companion'. Users can now purchase it in the US "as an annual, auto-renewing subscription in the…

Peggy Whitson is America's most experienced astronaut, having spent 675 days in space. She's just returned from her fourth flight to orbit. Axiom Space recently completed its second human spaceflight mission traveling to and from the International Space Station via a SpaceX Dragon Capsule. Whitson, now Axiom's director of human spaceflight, served as Ax-2's mission commander. CNBC's "Manifest Space" podcast sat down with the retired NASA astronaut to discuss her return to space, the commercialization of human spaceflight…

A poetry collection edited by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey will be published in November, and will contain contributions from Russell Brand, Maxine Peake and Michael Rosen.Poetry for the Many will feature the favourite poems of the former Labour leader and the trade unionist, along with their commentary.. The pair’s picks range from Shakespeare, William Blake and Maya Angelou to the Mexican nun Juana Inés de la Cruz.Poetry for the Many, edited by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. Photograph: OR Books“This book grew out…

Renewables as mermaids. Credit: Energy Research & Social Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103100 A team of researchers, led by Lancaster University, has been developing accessible and creative means of communicating sustainability research from the social sciences for policymakers and the wider public. Using fairy tale…

“Street Fighter 6” just might be the most accessible fighting game in years. Available for purchase across platforms Friday, the release from developer Capcom makes clear that newcomers are more than welcome to hit the streets in this hit franchise’s latest sequel. Fighting games have a history of being complex, highly technical experiences where muscle memory, razor-sharp reflexes, and oodles of psychological strategy collide in the most stressful of ways. Exhilarating for gamers who love those elements, but a…

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the need for automation of data science and the need for speed and scale in data transformation and building models. In this part, we will discuss other critical areas of ML-based solutions like: Model Explainability Model Governance (Traceability, Deployment, and Monitoring) Model Explainability Simpler Machine Learning models like linear and logistic regression have high interpretability, but may have limited accuracy. On the other hand, Deep Learning models have time and again…

If you use Microsoft Bing Chat on your mobile device, then you’re in line to get some more accessibility features. Microsoft is now rolling out more accessibility features for Bing Chat on mobile devices. These features are available with the most recent update pushed out to the app. Over the past weeks, Microsoft has been adding new functional features to Bing Chat for users to benefit from. But now, Microsoft seems to be focusing its attention on how users can access this AI chatbot feature quickly with their mobile…