Palm

Not that good, but we are getting thereImage from PixabaySince the release of GPT-3, several other large language models have been introduced and evaluated in machine translation.But how good are large language models at translation compared to the standard machine translation encoder-decoder approach?Unfortunately, we can’t easily answer this question.The evaluations of large language models for translation are often too sloppy or incomplete to draw credible conclusions.To have a clear answer, a research team from Google…

Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to pay by scanning your palm and sharing your information with a Chinese tech giant.This was the proposition Tencent made to a handful of Chinese consumers recently, as seen in a video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, in late September. Tencent, the company that owns the payment system WeChat Pay, appears to have been testing palm-print payment devices in the country for months. Supporters of the technology…

Zhao developed a method to use synthetic models to generate fake palm-print data—creating massive datasets that resemble creases in palms without using real palm photos. While the data isn’t collected from real people, it can still be used to improve the recognition algorithm, according to a paper Zhao submitted to the European Conference on Computer Vision in 2022. “Once we have generated about 200,000 to 300,000 images, the precision rate will be close to 100%. That’s a clear improvement,” he says. Previously, the…

For the past 19 years, computer science professor Juan Gilbert has immersed himself in perhaps the most contentious debate over election administration in the United States—what role, if any, touch-screen ballot-marking devices should play in the voting process.While advocates claim that electronic voting systems can be relatively secure, improve accessibility, and simplify voting and vote tallying, critics have argued that they are insecure and should be used as infrequently as possible.  As for Gilbert? He claims he’s…

CAUTION Back in the day, folks used to rotate their palm on their Nintendo 64 controllers for Mario Party minigames, leading to injuries, and an official “glove” release from Nintendo. This time with the Mario Party 64 Switch re-releases (Mario Party 1 and 2) via the expansion pack, they’re just adding that warning upfront. Here’s the warning in full for the first game, seen when booting it up: “CAUTION: To avoid irritation to your skin and/or damage to the control stick, do not rotate it with the palm of your hand.…

In one late September video that I found particularly insightful, a person who appears to be a WeChat employee can be heard instructing people to put their hands in front of a recognition device and record their palm prints. “New feature of WeChat Pay. Everyone is welcome to try our service and support us,” the voice says. In return, the users who scan their palms can get a soda for the price of one cent. The user who later uploaded the video asks when this feature was released, and the voice replies that it started…

The living room. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The kitchen. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The dining room. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The barbecue area. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The sunroom. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The sunroom. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) The home’s lush garden. (Photo by Mark Karlstrom) A California Monterey-style home once owned by late Academy Award-winning actress Donna Reed is for sale at $4.175 million in Palm Springs. Sited on a three-quarter-acre lot in the Old Las Palmas neighborhood, it’s made up of…

Palm Trees and Power Lines from writer-director Jamie Dack is destined to become a divisive feature film dealing as it does with the reality of relationships in contemporary society by exploring taboo topics. The story focuses on a socially questionable connection between Lea (Lily McInerny) and Tom (Jonathan Tucker), A teenager lacking any strong father figure and an adult in his thirties, who knowingly manipulates her for financial gain.  Expanded from a short that Dack wrote and directed previously, this mini-budget…

Image: AmazonThanks to advances in technologies like near-field communication (NFC) and cloud computing, contactless payment options are increasingly common. Two years ago, Amazon debuted a device called Amazon One, which lets you pay for an item in a store with effectively just a wave of your hand. Now, for the first time, Amazon One is being deployed as a standalone payment option. Starting this weekend, the palm-recognition and payment devices will be available for customers to use at three concession areas at the…

Google has developed a new, large-scale learning model that improves the robots' overall performance and ability to execute more complex and abstract tasks as well as handle complex requests from people.Called 'PaLM-SayCan', the Google-Everyday Robots research uses PaLM -- or Pathways Language Model -- in a robot learning model. "This effort is the first implementation that uses a large-scale language model to plan for a real robot. It not only makes it possible for people to communicate with helper robots via text or…