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Apple Computer was founded April 1, 1976. Its 8th employee was 14-year-old Chris Espinosa, who still works for the company today. He never got laid off because his manager said that as an early employee, his severance package would be too expensive.
Espinosa is not a college graduate, but during a stint at UC Berkeley he continued working for Apple and worked on the manual for the Apple II. (link is to a section of an interview with Espinosa from the year 2000.)
Espinosa is not a college graduate, but during a stint at UC Berkeley he continued working for Apple and worked on the manual for the Apple II. (link is to a section of an interview with Espinosa from the year 2000.)
Torty the Greek tortoise, who survived World War I, visits the Te Papa exhibit which tells her story.
An earlier news item about Torty from 2017 covers New Zealands Last Great War survivor.
Related - Peter was another tortoise who survived the trenches of Gallipoli to spend the remainder of his long life in New Zealand, passing away in 1994.
Tortoises can be very long lived, Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is estimated to be 193 years old - the oldest known living land animal.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google's terms. The company's Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so it's dumping the custom Gemma license.
Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean plenty of things, of course. The two large Gemma variants, 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense, are designed to run unquantized in bfloat16 format on a single 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU. Granted, that's a $20,000 AI accelerator, but it's still local hardware. If quantized to run at lower precision, these big models will fit on consumer GPUs. Google also claims it has focused on reducing latency to really take advantage of Gemma's local processing. The 26B Mixture of Experts model activates only 3.8 billion of its 26 billion parameters in inference mode, giving it much higher tokens-per-second than similarly sized models. Meanwhile, 31B Dense is more about quality than speed, but Google expects developers to fine-tune it for specific uses.
The other two Gemma 4 models, Effective 2B (E2B) and Effective 4B (E4B), are aimed at mobile devices. These options were designed to maintain low memory usage during inference, running at an effective 2 billion or 4 billion parameters. Google says the Pixel team worked closely with Qualcomm and MediaTek to optimize these models for devices like smartphones, Raspberry Pi, and Jetson Nano. Not only do they use less memory and battery than Gemma 3, but Google also touts "near-zero latency" this time around.
The Apache 2.0 license is much more flexible with its terms of use for commercial restrictions, "granting you complete control over your data, infrastructure, and models," says Google.
Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, called it "a huge milestone" that will help developers use Gemma for more projects and expand what Google calls the "Gemmaverse."
Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean plenty of things, of course. The two large Gemma variants, 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense, are designed to run unquantized in bfloat16 format on a single 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU. Granted, that's a $20,000 AI accelerator, but it's still local hardware. If quantized to run at lower precision, these big models will fit on consumer GPUs. Google also claims it has focused on reducing latency to really take advantage of Gemma's local processing. The 26B Mixture of Experts model activates only 3.8 billion of its 26 billion parameters in inference mode, giving it much higher tokens-per-second than similarly sized models. Meanwhile, 31B Dense is more about quality than speed, but Google expects developers to fine-tune it for specific uses.
The other two Gemma 4 models, Effective 2B (E2B) and Effective 4B (E4B), are aimed at mobile devices. These options were designed to maintain low memory usage during inference, running at an effective 2 billion or 4 billion parameters. Google says the Pixel team worked closely with Qualcomm and MediaTek to optimize these models for devices like smartphones, Raspberry Pi, and Jetson Nano. Not only do they use less memory and battery than Gemma 3, but Google also touts "near-zero latency" this time around.
The Apache 2.0 license is much more flexible with its terms of use for commercial restrictions, "granting you complete control over your data, infrastructure, and models," says Google.
Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, called it "a huge milestone" that will help developers use Gemma for more projects and expand what Google calls the "Gemmaverse."
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Even on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, astronauts apparently still have to deal with broken Microsoft Outlook. One of the crew members, Reid Wiseman, jokingly reported that he had "two Microsoft Outlooks" and neither worked. 404 Media reports: On April 1, four astronauts from the U.S. and Canada embarked on a 10-day flight to loop around the moon. Spotted by VGBees podcast host Niki Grayson on the NASA livestream of live views from the , around 2 a.m. ET, mission control acknowledges an issue with a process control system and offers to remote in -- yes, like how your office IT guy would pause his CoD campaign to log into Okta for you because you used the wrong password too many times.
One of the astronauts, Reid Wiseman, says that's chill, but while they're in there: "I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." Astronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They're some of the smartest people on the planet, and they have to be, before we strap them to 3.2 million pounds of jet fuel and make them do complex experiments and high-stakes decisions for days on end. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked.
One of the astronauts, Reid Wiseman, says that's chill, but while they're in there: "I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." Astronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They're some of the smartest people on the planet, and they have to be, before we strap them to 3.2 million pounds of jet fuel and make them do complex experiments and high-stakes decisions for days on end. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked.
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NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York hebben donderdag veel van hun eerdere verliezen goedgemaakt. De belangrijkste beursgraadmeters eindigden niet ver van hun slotstanden van een dag eerder, terwijl eerder op de dag nog aanzienlijke verliezen op de koersenborden stonden. De hoop op een spoedige opening van de Straat van Hormuz nam toe.
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump wakkerde aanvankelijk zorgen aan over een langere sluiting van die belangrijke zeestraat. Hij zei Iran de komende weken hard aan te vallen.
Gedurende de handelssessie nam de hoop op het hervatten van de scheepvaart bij Hormuz toe, dankzij opmerkingen van een Iraanse topdiplomaat. De Iraanse onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken zei tegen staatsmedia dat Iran met Oman werkt aan een protocol om de scheepvaart te monitoren in vredestijd.
De brede S&P 500 eindigde 0,1 procent hoger op 6582,67 punten. De Dow-Jonesindex verloor 0,1 procent tot 46.504,73 punten. Techgraadmeter Nasdaq steeg 0,2 procent tot 21.879,18 punten.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump voert een importheffing van 100 procent in op gepatenteerde medicijnen en farmaceutische ingrediënten. Voor farmaceutische producten uit de Europese Unie en een aantal andere landen geldt een veel lager tarief, van 15 procent.
Trump dreigde al langer met importheffingen op medicijnen. Hij vindt dat farmaceuten daar veel meer van op Amerikaanse bodem moeten produceren. Ze kunnen de hoge heffingen dan ook voorkomen als ze beloven meer in de VS te produceren. Dan gaat het tarief omlaag naar 20 procent. De heffingen worden helemaal geschrapt als ze bepaalde afspraken over verkoopprijzen in de VS maken.
Naast de EU geldt het tarief van 15 procent ook voor de import van medicijnen uit Zwitserland, Japan, Zuid-Korea en Liechtenstein. De importheffingen gelden niet voor generieke medicijnen, waar geen patent meer op rust. Ook worden zeer specialistische medicijnen, bijvoorbeeld voor zeldzame ziektes, uitgezonderd van importheffingen.
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Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…