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AI for AP: High school students create tool that acts as tech tutor for advanced placement courses

GeekWire

Professor AI co-founders Pradyu Kandala, left, and Abhay Chebium. (Professor AI Photos) Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high school teens turned to technology, and put AI to work on AP. Pradyu Kandala and Abhay Chebium are juniors at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., and the co-founders of Professor AI , an ed-tech tool they started building last summer. “We started this because we experienced the problem,&#

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DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes

TechSpot

For those not in the know, DARPA has been working on self-driving military vehicles for two decades now as part of its RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency) program. The goal is to develop autonomous ground vehicles that can navigate off-road terrain without any human input.

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‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli

GeekWire

Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli is the author of the new book, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Dana Mattioli , Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the new book, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” Mattioli spoke with more than 600 people for the book, including current and former senior A

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Gigabyte and MSI also provide BIOS settings to address Intel crashing CPUs

TechSpot

Gigabyte's latest beta BIOS, announced on Friday, provides a new Intel Baseline feature on its Z790 and B760 series motherboards. According to the announcement, the new beta BIOS is designed to provide enhanced stability by eliminating the high power "optimized" settings thought to induce the instability associated with Intel's 13th-.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini boasts ChatGPT-level performance in an ultralight 3.8B parameter package

TechSpot

Weighing in at just 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Mini is the first of three compact new AI models Microsoft has in the works. It may be small, but Microsoft claims this little overachiever can punch way above its weight class, producing responses close to what you'd get from a model.

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US investigators link Tesla Autopilot to dozens of deaths and almost 1,000 crashes

TechSpot

A newly published report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) links Tesla's Autopilot systems to nearly 1,000 crashes from the last few years, over two dozen of them fatal. Most were caused by inattentive drivers who may have falsely believed that the company's driver assistance systems amounted to.

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Who is Prabhakar Raghavan and why is he accused of killing Google Search?

TechSpot

A study earlier this year by German academics verified what many users of Google search had long suspected: the search engine, once the gold standard for such activities, had been getting worse. The reason, the researchers concluded, is that too much low-quality content was being optimized to appear higher in.

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