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Fivio Foreign’s performance at the Brooklyn Nets’ home opener on Tuesday left something to be desired. The Brooklyn native took to center court during halftime to perform a medley of his songs “Say My Name,” “City of Gods,” and “Big Drip.” But thanks to some obvious technical difficulties, his delivery was delayed and he was rapping off-cue. As TMZ points out, some fans blamed the audio crew at Barclays, while others said the rapper needs to step his game up.T.I. pointed out in a comment that Fivio should have been using…

We might not get another Apple event this year.While Apple was initially expected to hold an event to launch its rumored M2-equipped Macs and iPads in October, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman predicts Apple will announce its new devices in a series of press releases, website updates, and media briefings instead.I know that it probably takes a lot of work to put these polished events together, but if Apple does pass on it this year, I will kind of miss vibing to the livestream’s music and seeing all the new products get presented.…

Image: Warner Bros. Horror fans may remember the pretty fine film The Nun from back in 2018. As part of the massively successful Conjuring universe, the film was a prequel spinoff about Valak, the demonic nun from The Conjuring 2 as played by Bonnie Aarons. Though the franchise has shifted focus back to the Warrens and Annabelle with the last few installments, a sequel for The Nun has been quietly in the works.On Friday, The Hollywood Reporter broke that Storm Reid has been cast in The Nun 2 as one of its leads.…

Amazon is the first streaming platform in history to be the sole carrier for a package of national games from the NFL.Photo: Jon Kopaloff for Prime Video (Getty Images)There are few things in life Americans love more than football. Like a flock of sheep to their shepherd, Americans will watch football wherever the NFL tells them to, which on Thursdays is on Amazon Prime, as of recently. Despite a barrage of complaints and fury from fans and critics over the technical glitches that hit last Thursday’s game, Amazon’s first…

To show the German automaker is all in on its climate goals, BMW says it will use recycled fishing nets in its NEUE KLASSE (“new class” in English, referring to BMW’s new electric power train) set to launch in 2025. Although BMW has been more reluctant than some of its peers to go all in on electric vehicles, the automaker has ambitious climate goals. The luxury automaker announced plans last year to reduce carbon emissions throughout its vehicle life cycle by 40% by the end of the decade, up from the previous…

Compute-in-memory is the new kind of chip that is revolutionizing the AI industry Researchers are building an AI that can connect our brains to machines, and then probably live forever! Earlier, connecting AI chips to computers seemed like nothing more than science fiction, but recent developments in brain-machine interfacing denote its benefits in treating mental health conditions to controlling objects with the mind, like wheelchairs and robotic prosthetics. Modern devices are supercharged by AI and accompanied by the…

Kevin Durant #7 of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles during the first half against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Barclays Center on May 16, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Sarah Stier | Getty ImagesKevin Durant will remain with the NBA's Brooklyn Nets this upcoming season, the team said Tuesday.The announcement comes after a couple disappointing seasons from the talent-packed Nets and a summer-long uncertainty about Durant's and fellow star Kyrie Irving's futures with the team. The Nets were swept by the Boston…

Regularizing neural nets for better prediction of biological fitness landscapesPhoto by Emma Gossett on UnsplashMatch your inductive bias to your problem spaceAll machine learning (ML) algorithms have an inherent inductive bias. Inductive biases are the assumptions we make about the likelihood of encountering certain kinds of solutions. The classic example of an inductive bias is Occam’s Razor, where we assume that simple examples are more likely than complicated ones. In ML, we often translate an…