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In a groundbreaking dental moment, an AI-controlled autonomous robot created by Boston company Perceptive has performed a dental procedure on a human patient eight times faster than a human dentist. Using a 3D volumetric scanner, the system avoids harmful X-Ray radiation, has an accuracy rate around 90%, and can detect cavities automatically. The robotic dental […]
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The author recounts a disastrous incident involving a group of individuals attempting to use a high-power laser to remove road striping, resulting in damage to a VP’s Jeep and potential safety hazards. The story is humorous yet cautionary, illustrating the importance of following safety protocols and not taking unnecessary risks. The detailed and vivid descriptions […]
Summary: The innovative FLUX text-to-image model by Black Forest Labs offers impressive creativity and performance with 12B parameters, reminiscent of Midjourney aesthetics. FLUX has three variations on fal, including a base model for community use, a faster distilled version, and a closed-source API version. The integration of fal’s inference engine enables faster processing times while […]
Stability AI has unveiled Stable Fast 3D, a groundbreaking technology that converts a single image into a detailed 3D asset in just 0.5 seconds, revolutionizing the field of 3D reconstruction. Users upload an image and promptly receive a fully realized 3D asset with UV unwrapped mesh, material parameters, and albedo colors. In addition to unprecedented […]
In a recent update, Servo’s unique parallel layout engine has improved even further by enhancing its rendering capabilities to XR headsets via OpenXR. Several new features were added in nightly builds, including support for various methods and properties. The update also introduced an experimental OpenXR backend, enabling Servo to display WebXR content on headsets like […]
Skribilo is a versatile and free document production tool that supports a variety of output formats like HTML, Info, Lout, and LaTeX. Users can leverage Skribilo’s markup language or opt for a simpler format reminiscent of Emacs outline mode and email conventions. More than just a document processor, Skribilo serves as a comprehensive document programming […]
The Business Data Technologies (BDT) team at Amazon Retail is bravely migrating their massive business intelligence datasets from Apache Spark to Ray to increase data processing efficiency and reduce costs. They have contributed a critical component to Ray’s open-source project and have found that Ray outperforms Spark in terms of scalability and cost-effectiveness. By using […]
The author discusses their decision to remove their macOS app, Restaurants, from sale after 10 years due to changes in Yelp’s API licensing. Despite Yelp’s sudden move to a paid licensing program, the author highlights how they had official permission from Yelp and provided valuable feedback regarding the short notice given. The app’s unique use […]
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid is an experimental distro that introduces new immutability features, A/B failover, and cross-distro packaging. Unlike version 1, which was Ubuntu-based, Orchid is based on Debian Sid, a testing release with potentially unstable updates. The new version supports various package formats, including Alpine, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and openSUSE, managed by Podman. It […]
Design an unlimited number of business or information cards with Important Cardie, an open alpha platform. Share a link or QR code to your cards, track analytics, edit as needed, and keep cards private. Be aware that bugs are expected as things are rapidly changing. Follow the installation steps provided to get started. For production […]