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While members of Congress waste time grandstanding about “censorship” and politicians threaten to jail tech executives for their moderation choices, actual trust & safety teams are quietly doing work that saves lives in active war zones. But you’d never know it from all the political theater. That’s why we’ve partneredContinue Reading

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System76 has officially released the first public beta of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, which features the company’s new, Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment by default (which is also in beta).  System76 say COSMIC will ‘propel the Linux desktop to new heights of user empowerment’ Pop!_OS 24.04 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTSContinue Reading

Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech

Nvidia is open-sourcing Audio2Face, its AI-powered tool that generates realistic facial animations for 3D avatars — all based on audio input. The change means developers can now use the tool and its underlying framework to create realistic 3D characters for their games and apps. Nvidia’s Audio2Face works by analyzing the “acoustic features” of a voice…Continue Reading

Science history: DART, humanity’s first-ever asteroid deflection mission, punches a space rock in the face — Sept. 26, 2022

DART’s final moments before it crashed into Dimorphos’s surface. (Image credit: John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) QUICK FACTS Milestone: DART rocket crashes into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos Date: Sept. 26, 2022 at 7:14 p.m. EDT Where: 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth Who: NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory scientists OnContinue Reading

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Here’s a quick tutorial on how you can connect your Ubuntu or Fedora Linux from macOS. Accessing your Linux machine (like Ubuntu or Fedora) from a Mac can be incredibly useful for development, server management, or just seamless productivity. While tools like SSH or VNC exist, using Remote Desktop ProtocolContinue Reading