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For several years, the intersection of text and data stayed (more or less) within the realm of natural language processing (NLP) — the wide range of machine learning tasks that leverage textual data for prediction, classification, and recommendation tools.The rise of large language models has introduced a host of exciting new possibilities into the field, with novel use cases and innovative workflows popping up at a rapid clip. Our highlights this week represent a wide cross-section of concepts and approaches that dig…

Sundar Pichai recently unveiled Google’s first foldable smartphone at the Google I/O 2023 along with a new Pixel 7a. The Google Pixel Fold is a premium offering from the company and on the other hand, the Google Pixel 7a caters the mid-range segment. One can easily assume that the CEO of one of the biggest tech companies in the world will be using the latest flagship phone of his own company, however that is not the case. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that he has been using Pixel Fold for testing purposes but that…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Twenty-five years on, composer and events producer Bobby Cole can still remember the first time he saw the trailer for James Cameron’s Titanic appear on TV. “It was done so well, I went to school the next day and I remember saying to someone, ‘They found this drawing at the bottom of the ocean!’” he says. “I thought it was real.”If you came…

When so much current movie-making is risk-averse, sanitised, cinema by consensus, you have to admire a film that takes such an ambitious and unfettered approach to storytelling. You don’t, however, have to like it. I’ve watched Alejandro Iñárritu’s latest – the wildly uneven, Fellini-esque Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – twice. That’s a little shy of six hours of my life (Iñárritu cut about 20 minutes from the film after its premiere). It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is…

Brisk, upbeat and brimming with positivity, Call Jane is both emphatically timely – it deals with an undercover band of women in the late 60s and the early 70s who provided safe abortions outside the law – and tonally somewhat jarring. The directorial debut of Phyllis Nagy (previously best known as the screenwriter of Todd Haynes’s Carol) was presumably conceived as a stirring, factually based period piece. But since the seismic changes in the reproductive rights landscape in the US, it is a subject that takes on an…

In 2009, a never-before-seen yeast emerged from the ear canal of a 70-year-old Japanese lady. Unfortunately, this yeast – known as Candida auris – is a health menace, having now spread around the world and become resistant to multiple drugs. A new study now shows it also reproduces in an unexpected way.  C. auris isn't your helpful bakers or brewer's yeast. It has a bad track record of ending up in hospitals and infecting those with weakened immune systems. Unfortunately, it doesn't just stay in the ear, it can enter the…

via DreamWorks The discussion and debate surrounding modern comedy has become more heated than ever, with even the performers themselves wondering if they’ll become the latest victim of cancel culture should they take things a little too far for some people with a joke or routine. It’s an important discussion, but the regular waves of backlash to be thrown up around Robert Downey Jr.’s performance in Tropic Thunder is the sort of faux outrage that completely misses the point. Even though it’s been almost 15…