Namibian Fairy Circle Debate Intensifies: Sand Termites or Turing Mechanism? [Updated]
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Himba bushmen in the Namibian grasslands have long passed down legends about the region's mysterious fairy circles: bare, reddish-hued circular patches that are also found in northwestern Australia. In the last 10 years, scientists have heatedly debated whether these unusual patterns are due to sand termites or to an ecological version of a self-organizing Turing
Sysdig Sage Introduces LLM Controller Approach, Empowering Cloud Security with Generative AI
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Sysdig has been growing its open source-based cloud monitoring and security platform for the past decade. While machine learning (ML) has been part of the Sysdig platform for several years, like many other vendors in 2023, the company is now
Partisan Divide Evident in Ohio and Florida as Pandemic Deaths Persist Following Vaccine Rollout
Amid the pandemic, Republican voters in Ohio and Florida had a significantly higher rate of excess deaths after the nationwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines compared with those who voted Democratic, according to a study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Further ReadingMany Republicans are refusing COVID vaccines. Experts are trying to change thatAs the
Nvidia Unveils DGX Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Advanced Generative AI Training
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Nvidia announced today the wide accessibility of its cloud-based AI supercomputing service, DGX Cloud. This service will grant users access to thousands of virtual Nvidia GPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with infrastructure in the U.S. and U.K. DGX Cloud
Emergency Declared as Peru Grapples with Mysterious Neurological Disorder Affecting Over 230 Individuals
Over 230 people in Peru have developed a rare paralyzing neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome, leading government officials to declare a national emergency and the World Health Organization to send out a disease outbreak alert. So far, four people have died from the disorder, which involves the immune system attacking peripheral nerves. It often starts
Wayfair Introduces Innovative AI Solution for Interior Design Transformation
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Online furniture retailer Wayfair today announced the launch of Decorify, a novel generative AI solution that reimagines the entire interior design process. Available in a pilot program starting today, the offering allows users to envision their homes in different styles
US Government Makes Significant Move Towards Space-Based Nuclear Propulsion
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter. NASA announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the US Department of Defense to launch a nuclear-powered rocket
Oracle MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse Now Generally Available for Data Query
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Oracle is formally getting into the data lakehouse business with the general availability of its MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse service today. MySQL Heatwave is a managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering that is built on top of the open source MySQL relational database
Climate Change Blamed for Ancient Mass Extinction Event 260 Million Years Ago
The Capitanian mass extinction was once lumped in with the “Great Dying” of the end-Permian mass extinction, but the lesser-known extinction occurred 8–10 million years earlier. It may not have been great, but it was quite lethal, seeing as many as 62 percent of species go extinct, according to one estimate. Two new papers by
The AI Beat: Insights from the Viral ‘Barbenheimer’ Trailer Shed Light on Generative AI Hype
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here A new AI-generated movie trailer that splices together the wildly-hyped movies Barbie and Oppenheimer into a mashup — featuring a pink mushroom cloud — has gone viral. The trailer offers a spot-on sendup on the “Barbenheimer” hype that had moviegoers flocking
