Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images
Try taking a picture of each of North America’s roughly 11,000 tree species, and you’ll have a mere fraction of the millions of photos within nature image datasets. These massive collections of snapshots — ranging from butterflies to humpback whales — are a great research tool for ecologists because they provide evidence of organisms’ unique behaviors, rare conditions,…
27 of the best mystery movies on Netflix for you to solve
Nobody can resist a good mystery. Whether it’s a whodunnit crime story, a tale of suspense that keeps you guessing, or a mind-bending psychological thriller, putting the pieces together sitting in front of your screen has long been a highly satisfying activity for amateur sleuths. Often, the best mysteries span out over a whole series…
Here’s How To Enjoy Pokemon TCG Pocket Without Spending A Dime
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket is the hottest Pokemon-related thing to come out this year. That said, it is also very much a gacha game, which means that it is built to compel you to drop potentially hundreds, or even thousands of dollars into the game to complete your digital collection. How is anyone determined…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Turbocharges AI, Gaming And Photography For Phones
Qualcomm’s annual Snapdragon Summit is currently underway in sunny Hawaii, and the chipmaker is hitting hard right out of the gate. The company is best-known for its Snapdragon SoCs in smartphones and tablets, and the latest iteration promises to be the fastest and most efficient yet. The Snapdragon 8 Elite bursts onto the scene with…
Phishing platform Rockstar 2FA trips, and “FlowerStorm” picks up the pieces
Editor’s note: Sophos MDR’s Johua Rawles, Mark Parsons, Jordon Olness, and Colin Cowie contributed to this report. One of the Internet’s most prolific cybercrime-as-a-service operations recently suffered a setback: In November, Sophos MDR noticed that detections for the Rockstar2FA “phishing-as-a-service”(PaaS) platform had suddenly gone quiet. Based on telemetry gathered by Sophos MDR, it appears…
‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Flow’ are quietly revolutionary climate change movies
It’s easy to read Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot and Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow — two of the best films of 2024 — as companion pieces. Both are animated, both feature little to no human involvement, and both center on unlikely animal allies (and one incredible robot) coming together against all odds. But the similarities between…
First Wave of Apple Intelligence Features Appear in macOS 15.1 Sequoia, iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 | Computer Hardware
Is it time to make your Apple devices smarter? Apple has just released macOS 15.1 Sequoia, iOS 18.1, and iPadOS 18.1 with an initial collection of Apple Intelligence features and a promise of more coming in December. The company is making a big deal about Apple Intelligence, calling it out as a key feature of…
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. What does it mean for large language models (LLMs) to be trained on massive text corpora, collectively produced by millions and billions of distinctive human authors?…
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10 excellent shows and movies from 2024 to stream on Max
Despite Max’s pivot to purging films and TV shows from its programming library, the platform still has plenty of excellent new releases to check out during this year’s holiday season. Whether you’re into live-action dramas, sci-fi spectacles, or animated epics, the streamer has a little bit of everything to offer. Naturally, we’ve put together a…