The world’s first dataset aimed at improving the quality of English-to-Malayalam machine translation—a long-overlooked language spoken by more than 38 million people in India—has been developed by researchers at the University of Surrey.
Category: 3. Tech
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First-ever dataset to improve English-to-Malayalam machine translation fills critical gap for low-resource languages
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The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash
The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Iran is systematically crippling Starlink
The satellite internet service is meant to be impossible to jam—but…Continue Reading
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New framework helps AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions
If you use consumer AI systems, you have likely experienced something like AI “brain fog”: You are well into a conversation when suddenly the AI seems to lose track of the different ideas you have been talking about and how they fit together.
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Apple bundles creative apps into $13-a-month subscription
On Jan. 13, Apple Inc. announced a new subscription bundle of creative apps called Creator Studio, an attempt to give its photo- and video-editing software fresh momentum in the face of intensifying competition.
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Sensitive to Gluten? This Mini Device Can Detect It in Your Food
If you’re one of the 3 million people in the US who have celiac disease, an autoimmune condition triggered by eating gluten, then you know how crucial it is to stay away from the protein that can be found in grains like wheat, rye and barley….
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How bits of Apple history can be yours
In March 1976, Apple cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both signed a $500 check weeks before the official creation of a California company that would transform personal computing and become a global powerhouse.
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Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.
And as to the jobs they bring to communities. Well, I have some bad news there too. Once construction ends, they tend to employ very few people, especially for such resource-intensive facilities.
These are all logical reasons to oppose data…
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Your Android 17 Quick Settings could get two big upgrades
Android 17 Quick Settings might finally get the kind of fix you feel every day. A new leak suggests Google is working on two changes meant to cut friction when you’re just trying to connect, adjust brightness, or toggle basics…
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US allows Nvidia to send advanced AI chips to China with restrictions
The US Commerce Department on Tuesday opened the door for Nvidia to sell advanced artificial intelligence chips in China with restrictions, following through on a policy shift announced last month by President Donald Trump.
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Introducing TNW Council
A private network for founders and executives, limited to 1,000 members The Next Web today announces the launch of TNW Council, a private membership community created for founders and executives leading technology companies. The Council is…
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