Fox Corporation has agreed to acquire Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at approximately $22 billion, structured as a combination of cash and Fox Class A common stock at $160 per share. Once complete, the merger would make the combined entity the third-largest force in U.S. television by share of viewing. Fox…
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Why diffusion for text? While the AI research community has explored diffusion-based text generation for years, applying it to large models has remained a challenge. DiffusionGemma changes this by shifting how models use hardware. The trade-off with traditional models Most language models act like a typewriter, generating one token at a time from left to…
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While my guided tour of the new MMO Stars Reach began in the stars, Raph Koster, the veteran behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, wanted to quickly get to the surface of a planet. Not to show me combat. He wanted me to see the weather. “This is the game I have wanted to…
Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole that sits on your network, intercepting and blocking ads and trackers for every device before the content ever has a chance to load. Most of us have “set up Pi-hole” on a to-do list, but it actually takes less than an hour. That one hour of work gets you…
Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content, according to a recent post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Specifically, Mosseri was showing off new ways that users might access Your Algorithm, a feature that allows them to specify which topics they want to see more of, and less of. Instagram launched Your…
Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agencies. Open source software has long been a pillar of U.S. technology leadership. In 1969, DARPA connected four university computers — from UCLA, Stanford, UCSB…
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance paid a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California and, as is his wont, put his foot squarely in his mouth. The “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who compared President Trump to Hitler before serving as his running mate, took it upon himself to defend Nixon’s legacy and…
