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Photo: EDF Renewables North America Renewables provided over 22.7% of US electrical generation in 2023, according to newly released end-of-year US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data. EIA’s latest “Electric Power Monthly” (with data through December 31, 2023) reports that the combination of utility-scale and small-scale (e.g., rooftop) solar increased by 16.1% last year. Small-scale solar alone grew by 20.1% – faster than any other energy source. In December alone, small-scale…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr, introduced me to feminist politics, which inspired my burgeoning interest in gender and feminism at university. My experiences as a Tumblr teen at the height of its popularity inspired my book, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr, which examines the platform in the early- to…

Prompt Engineering Prompt engineering is the first step toward talking with Generative AI models (LLMs). Essentially, it’s the process of crafting meaningful instructions to generative AI models so they can produce better results and responses. The prompts can include relevant context, explicit constraints, or specific formatting requirements to obtain the desired results.  Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI framework for retrieving facts from an external knowledge base to…

Google‘s CEO Sundar Pichai faces intense scrutiny and calls for resignation or termination following the tumultuous rollout of the company’s AI chatbot Gemini. Gemini refused to show images of White people Google’s Gemini, formerly known as Bard, was introduced globally with great anticipation. However, controversies and criticisms regarding the inability to generate images of white people have negatively affected people’s expectations for this AI model. Helios Capital founder Samir Arora commented on the matter guessing…

After complaints that Google’s image generator built into its Gemini AI was (ugh) woke, Google explained why it may have overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s senior vice president for knowledge and information, said Google’s efforts to ensure a wide range of people generated in images “failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range.”Users criticized Google for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals. In Engadget’s…

The iPad is an excellent device for watching movies, playing games, using productivity apps, and, perhaps most importantly, drawing. With apps like Procreate, it is the best Apple device for a budding artist and it’s made even better with an Apple Pencil. Right now at Amazon, you can pick up both generations of Apple Pencil at their lowest-ever prices. If you have an iPad and feel like it’s finally time to start drawing with precision, now is the perfect time to pick one up, with the second-generation Apple Pencil down…

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, text generation models have emerged as a cornerstone, revolutionizing how we interact with machine learning technologies. Among these models, GPT-4 stands out, showcasing an unprecedented ability to understand and generate human-like text. This article delves into the basics of text generation using GPT-4, providing Python code examples to guide beginners in creating their own AI-driven text generation applications. Understanding GPT-4 GPT-4, or Generative…

Qualcomm has arrived in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress with a slew of announcements, including the new Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF System. This is their seventh-generation 5G modem. Hard to believe we’ve been using 5G for that long, but the first globally available 5G phones launched in 2019! The new Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF System is the most advanced 5G modem-to-antenna platform in the world, according to Qualcomm. It integrates 5G-Advanced capabilities and is the first modem that has fully integrated NB-NTN…

“First text, then images, now OpenAI has a model for generating videos,” screamed Mashable the other day. The makers of ChatGPT and Dall-E had just announced Sora, a text-to-video diffusion model. Cue excited commentary all over the web about what will doubtless become known as T2V, covering the usual spectrum – from “Does this mark the end of ?” to “meh” and everything in between.Sora (the name is Japanese for “sky”) is not the first T2V tool, but it looks more sophisticated than earlier efforts like Meta’s Make-a-Video…

Beyond Boundaries: Unveiling Predictions for the Next Generation of Mobile Computing As technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, the future of mobile computing holds the promise of transformative advancements. From enhanced connectivity to groundbreaking hardware innovations, the next generation of mobile computing is poised to redefine the way we interact with the digital world. In this article, we’ll explore predictions that forecast the trajectory of mobile computing, offering a glimpse into the…