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Novavax Inc. slashed its full-year revenue outlook in half on Monday, citing a lack of demand for its Covid-19 vaccine from an international initiative to vaccinate lower-income countries and delays in winning expanded authorizations in the U.S. The new guidance reflects an unexpected shortfall in demand for Covid-19 vaccines, Novavax Chief Executive Stanley Erck said in an interview. Covax, the international vaccine initiative, has backed away from an order of…

DALL·E can generate whatever you want, as long as you know the right incantationIllustration produced via Midjourney (generative AI).The advent of text-conditioned image generation models like DALL·E is undoubtedly going to change the traditional creative process. However, art will not necessarily come for free: the burden will simply shift away from drawing or using complex graphic design software to crafting effective text prompts to control the whims of text-to-image models. This article discusses potential ways in…

Google Chrome will soon get a new machine learning (ML) model that will automatically silence notification permission prompts that are not/ less likely to get approval. Google says that this model is a part of an expansion of its ML capabilities which it uses in various other services, including filtering out spam emails. The Mountain View, California-based company claims that the move will further improve the browsing experience, and since the model will run on-device, the user data stays private.Google explains in a…

Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages to see if they match known fake or malicious sites (using more than just the URL, since scammers rotate those more quickly than it can keep up, and now that tech is getting better. Now Google also says that in Chrome 102, it will use machine learning that runs entirely within the browser (without sending data back to Google or elsewhere) to help identify websites that make unsolicited permission requests for notifications and silence them before they pop…

How to use ML models to extract objects from photographs and rearrange them to create modern artSample Photo Collages from CLIP and PASTE, Images by AuthorIn many of my previous posts, I showed how to use AI models to create new artwork from text prompts. For those projects, I used at least two AI models, a generator like a Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to create the images and a multi-modal language/image model like OpenAI’s Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP) to direct the generator.For this project,…

Mark Hamill issued a funny warning to Kate Middleton after a video of Prince Louis circulated online.On Sunday (5 June), a clip of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s youngest child putting his hand over Middleton’s mouth at the jubilee celebrations was shared on social media.In the clip, the bored four-year-old can be seen thumbing his nose and sticking his tongue out at his mother during the Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant.Star Wars actor Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the franchise, shared the clip on Twitter,…

HackerNoon’s CEO and founder, David Smooke, has 10 questions that he poses to startup founders. These questions include the amount of money you raised, the number of investors, and what you plan to do with the money raised. The questions are not only useful to the readers, but to the writers as well. Hey there, Hackers. We know HackerNoon.com has some pretty bright and talented visitors. But even incredible people need help and knowledge from others; especially when it comes to the business world.If you’re a business…

Snap surprise disclosure that its second-quarter revenue and profit will be lower than expected sent its shares plunging and sparked debate over whether the social-media company’s woes signal a broader slowdown in the online-ad market.During a presentation at an investment conference, Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegelsaid “the macroeconomic environment has definitely deteriorated further and faster than we expected.” In a filing, Snap said it would miss the low end of its target for 20% to 25% year-over-year revenue…

E. coli illnesses linked to frozen pizza made by Nestlé SA NSRGY -0.11% in France have killed two children and sickened dozens of others, presenting the packaged-foods giant with its most serious food-safety issue in years.French authorities last month launched a criminal investigation into Nestlé for involuntary manslaughter, deceitful practices and endangering others, according to France’s Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention, a…

In recent years, Amazon has spent billions of dollars on new warehouses that cut into profits, explaining to investors that it had no choice but to meet ever-rising consumer demand.It turns out, Amazon may have built too much, too soon, analysts say.The world's largest online retailer on Thursday reported $2 billion (roughly Rs. 15,300 crore) in incremental costs from having excess fulfillment and transportation capacity, a dramatic shift from just two years ago when Amazon had to turn away merchants' goods because it had…