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Just when it seemed impossible for the MLB uniform disaster to get worse, it did. All of a sudden my fiancee has a strong interest in baseball. Funny how that works. Makes you think if this was the plan all along, but Manfred isnt that smart. We’re truly living out a simulation that only George Costanza could have his hand in. As I detailed in my lastblog, the new Nike-Fanatics baseball uniforms are all over the place....

Norwegian startup ClexBio is bioengineering human veins to implant inside a patients body. Pre-clinical tests in animal models are already underway. Instead, they turn into functional tissue that integrates with the body. 40% off TNW Conference! To produce them in a scalable fashion, the startup developed the bioreactor. Inside the machine,the veins mature over a few weeks in a sterile environment. Automated media circulation provides the tissue with oxygen and nutrients....

He’s almost the anti-Will Hunting in a way. In Good Will Hunting, everyone tells Will to leave town and chase his dreams. Roger Ebert compares Rounders to a traditional sports film and he’s not entirely wrong. Worm (Edward Norton) is the punch in of character you usually don’t get in movies. He’s not a bad guy but does shitty and selfish things. He’s not a good guy and has no redemption in the movie at all....

After watching its share price almost double in a week, Arm has further tapped into the demand forAIcompute. The partnership aims to accelerate the commercialisation of self-driving cars. Arm will bring its famed semiconductor IP to Nuros vehicles, starting with the startups delivery robots. Another attraction to Nuro is the breadth of Arm architectures. 40% off TNW Conference! Arm estimates that 70% of the worlds population uses products that depend on its IPs....

Although Verizon and T-Mobile customers reported some internet outages, too, they appeared far less widespread. More than 74,000 AT&T customers reported outages on digital-service tracking site DownDetector. Thats not a comprehensive number: It tracks only self-reported outages. Reports had been rising steadily throughout the morning but leveled off in the 9 am ET hour. It was a nightmare of a morning for at least 74,000 people across America. How will they learn which fictional character would would make the worst roommate....

The Patriots held a press availability yesterday so that introduce their 17 new coaches to the public. Which seems like an astonishing number until you consider the man they’re trying to replace. Anyway, the even went pretty much as you’d expect. Just everyone talking in the most general of generalities. And the core of that unit will remain largely intact. That sort of thing. New coordinator Alex Van Pelt sounded pretty much like he was giving us his Jerry Maguire-like mission statement....

Researchers have discovered a Russia-alignedPSYOPs campaign with a curious mix of espionage, disinformation, and Canadian pharmacy spam. ThePSYOPs a military term for psychological operations wereunearthed by analysts at ESET, acybersecurityfirm headquartered in Slovakia. They named the campaign Operation Texonto. The operation disseminated war-related disinformation to Ukrainians via spamemails. Alongside the disinformation, ESET detected a recent spear-phishing campaign that targeted a Ukrainian company and an EU agency. It aimed to steal credentials for Microsoft Office 365 accounts....

Initially, the goal of the Ingenuity project was to build an aircraft that would fly at least once. In the end, the helicopter took 72 flights on Mars. 40% off TNW Conference! Weve got something special for you, our loyal readers. Also tagged with

Named after the Finnish word for reindeer, Poro is the first of a family of open-source multilingual LLMs. Poro is a 34.2 billion parameter model, designed to process English, Finnish, and code. Its been trained on a dataset of 1 trillion tokens. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. To achieve this, the team used a novel training approach, by pairing Finnish with high-resource languages. It determined optimal data reuse frequencies for low-resource languages and integrated translated paired texts between Finnish and English....

Amsterdam-based Fastned has raised more than 24mn in new bonds to grow its fast-charging connection across Europe. Investors have also extended 3.5mn from earlier bonds, bringing the totalfundingto over 27.5mn. In January last year, it announced an expansion to Spain as well. Drivers can add up to 300km of range in about 15 minutes, depending on theEVtype. Notably, Fastned provides electricity using renewable energy from solar and wind power. Fastned offers both a subscription and pay-on-the-go service....

Google designed them for cost-efficient app and software building. Gemma comes in two sizes 2 billion and 7 billion parameters.Each of themhas been releasedwithpre-trained and instruction-tuned variants. 40% off TNW Conference! Consequently, the models offer best-in-class performance,Googlesaid. Gemma is built to run on a developer laptop or desktop computer which has attracted further attention. In addition, the models are only available for responsible commercial usage and distribution, Google said. Devs and researchers who meet those standards are invited tostart experimenting with Gemmanow....

Cyberattacks hit Europe more than any other region in 2023, according tonew researchfrom IBM. The continent accounted for a whopping 32% of incidents analysed by the tech giant. North America jumps into second place with 26% of all cases. Across the globe, the biggest technicalshift was the growing abuse of user identities. Attacks harnessing valid credentials surged by 71% year-over-year. For the first time, they became the most common entrypoint into victim environments alongside phishing....

Visibly sad, I asked the girls if they knew what was coming? They, also visibly sad, nodded their heads. This group chooses to practice at 5 am every single Friday. This groups mental and physical toughness is special. Or you’ll regret it. Go chase your dreams. The girls agreed, and I felt supported by the only group of people I needed support from. And then second was #DoItForOhiosTate written in huge letters....