Gradio 5 is here: Hugging Face’s newest tool simplifies building AI-powered web apps

Gradio 5 is here: Hugging Face’s newest tool simplifies building AI-powered web apps

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face, the fast-growing AI startup valued at about $4.5 billion, has launched Gradio 5, a major update to its popular open-source tool for creating machine learning applications. The new version aims to make AI development … Read more

How to set up and and use your phone’s lifesaving emergency features

How to set up and and use your phone’s lifesaving emergency features

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Modern smartphones are incredibly powerful tools, and no matter what you think of them — whether they’re useful tools or those darn kids are spending too much time on them — they can be absolutely invaluable in an emergency. They can be out modern day medical alert bracelet, and some can even leverage … Read more

Why Tampa Is So Vulnerable to Hurricane Milton

Why Tampa Is So Vulnerable to Hurricane Milton

For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end that streak of luck, as the storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tampa Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning. The low-lying shoreline, still strewn with debris from last month’s Hurricane Helene, is … Read more

This bottle-sized rotating projector won’t fall over

This bottle-sized rotating projector won’t fall over

JMGO’s new Picoflix adds to the ever-growing list of portable projectors small enough to be carried in a water bottle pocket. But instead of standing on one end like many cylindrical compact projectors do, the Picoflix is used horizontally and features an integrated rotating gimbal so it’s easier to aim at a screen or wall. … Read more

After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’

After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’

Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that earned him the nickname “godfather of AI.” In a speech Tuesday, Professor Hinton praised one student – alluding to OpenAI’s former Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever – for revolting against OpenAI’s CEO. “I was particularly fortunate to have many … Read more