How Artists Taught An EY Avatar To Be More Human

EY receives 400,000 job applications every year. Selecting the best employees—fairly, and at scale—turned out to require both ...
InfoQ

Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...
Nepali Times

Nepali duo goes from Kathmandu Valley to Silicon Valley

Two young Nepalis have founded an AI company that is on the cusp of takeoff after getting funding from a top accelerator program in the United States.

Dell Pro Max 18 Plus review: I tested this giant in an AI startup lab and it refused to sweat

The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus wants to give you all the desktop-tier firepower in the world. In return, you must be ready to bear its sheer bulk and the cost burden. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your ...
BBC

Coding made easy with a micro:bit and the MakeCode platform

The Microsoft MakeCode platform is a free online blocks-based programming tool that's used to write the code that tells the micro:bit hardware what you want it to do. It’s very easy to use and allows ...
GitHub

SCAIL-2: Unifying Controlled Character Animation with End-to-end In-Context Conditioning

SCAIL-1 identifies the key bottlenecks that hinder character animation towards production level: how to represent the pose and how to inject the pose. However, the reliance on intermediate pose ...
GitHub

RASA: Disentangled Spatial-Motional Priors for Cross-Identity Character Animation

Linux GPU environment with CUDA 12.1 Python 3.11 PyTorch 2.4.1 DiffSynth-Studio 1.1.8 git clone https://github.com/HiDream-ai/RASA_code.git cd RASA conda create -n ...

‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!

As she nears her 72nd birthday, we honour the actor whose ‘smoked honey’ vocals added to her vampy persona on screen, whether bringing Jessica Rabbit to life or crushing Michael Douglas between her th ...