Discursive Verses: Jay-Z, the Super Bowl and playing with house money
NPR Music culture critic and reporter Rodney Carmichael ruminates on the latest in rap culture. This week: Is the rap mogul’s self-selection a crowning achievement or a final affront?
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A ‘Green Army’ is out to thwart El Niño flooding
In Nairobi, a city prone to floods, workers in the “Green Army” are making preparations to prevent disaster when El Niño arrives.
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In Israel’s Election, It’s Nationalism vs. Founding Ideals
As Israel votes, ever more strident hard-right views compete with hopes for a diverse land. The outcome could shape the country’s identity for years.
Modders unlock hidden AI power on Nvidia RTX 20-, 30-, and 40-series GPUs, nearly doubling some benchmarks
The limit lives in the tensor cores. When they multiply FP16 or BF16 numbers and add up the results in higher-precision FP32, GeForce cards issue those instructions at half the rate of the FP16-accumulate mode. That FP32 mode is the one most training and plenty of inference actually rely on….
Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia as they team up to make Muse AI faster and cheaper to run
When Meta announced its stock offering yesterday, it was reported that Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom had indicated interest in buying up to $5 billion worth of the company’s shares collectively. The world’s largest company by market cap has now confirmed its contribution.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, a quarter of the company
Microsoft recently announced a new voluntary exit offer for employees at level 70 and below in certain countries. Sources told CNBC that this group includes about 60,000 workers, a substantial increase in scope compared with the buyout offers that began in April.
