Inam Butt takes Silver in Commonwealth Video games 2022. Picture: AFP LAHORE: Pakistan’s ace-wrestler and administrator Mohammad Inam Butt has accomplished a two-month suspension imposed over an anti-doping violation and has been cleared to renew wrestling actions, paving the best way for him to symbolize Pakistan on the Asian Video games as a coach. In…
Linkup research team releases SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model. The model runs on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone and ships under Apache 2.0. Linkup team reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13. It calls this the strongest public vocabulary-based sparse encoder it knows of under 150M parameters. Is it deployable?…
A jury has found former Saskatoon Christian school principal Duff Arthur Friesen guilty on three counts of assault with a weapon involving former students and not guilty on two others. The jury found the offences in the three counts occurred between September 1997 and June 2007 and that Friesen intentionally applied force with a weapon…
HARARE: Australia registered one other emphatic win over hosts Zimbabwe to take an unassailable 2-0 lead of their One Day Worldwide collection as Travis Head hit a century in Friday’s 84-run win. Head bludgeoned 112 runs off 84 balls because the guests’ prime order laid the platform for victory within the second of three ODIs…
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it deployable?…
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has temporarily halted the City of Kelowna’s plans to expropriate a portion of the waterfront boardwalk in front of the Hotel Eldorado and Manteo Resort. Justice Warren Milman granted Argus Properties an injunction Friday, preventing the city from advancing its expropriation process while a legal challenge brought by Argus moves…
SpaceXAI has released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its newest speech-to-text (STT) model. The development team claims it to be twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the same price. The model targets hard audio: noisy phone lines, competing voices, local accents, and spoken credentials. It runs in batch and real-time streaming modes through…
HAMILTON – Davis Alexander and the Montreal Alouettes continue to take care of business in the East Division. Alexander threw two TD passes to power Montreal past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-25 in the annual Hall of Fame game Friday night. The Alouettes (11-3) improved to 7-0 this season versus East rivals. “As far as I…
Tajinderpal Singh Toor of India in action during the men’s shot put qualification at the Paris Olympics 2024. — Reuters India have replaced their male flagbearer in Saturday’s Asian Games opening ceremony in Nagoya, Japan, because the original choice, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, has not received his official ceremonial kit and cannot attend the event, media…
Napster is again. The title that struck worry into the hearts of music executives within the early dotcom period could also be coming to a classroom close to you. In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it has signed a strategic partnership with Gems Education to construct AI brokers and digital personas for training. In doing so,…
