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Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 review: return to form

The Verge

Apple’s new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade Let’s start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are incredible — the fastest laptops we’ve ever tested in some tasks, with some of the longest battery life we’ve ever seen. When you black out the notch, it’s really black — gone.).

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Acer’s Swift 3X includes Intel’s new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU

The Verge

Since this is a preview unit that’s not finalized, I wasn’t able to run any graphics benchmarks — we can look forward to those results when the full product hits shelves in December. My test configuration includes a quad-core Core i7-1165G7, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage, and costs $1,199 — that’s getting into premium territory.

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In search of a generalizable method for source-free domain adaptation

Google Research AI blog

Furthermore, existing methods perform differently relative to each other than observed in vision benchmarks, and surprisingly, sometimes perform worse than no adaptation at all. We show that state-of-the-art SFDA methods can underperform or even collapse when confronted with realistic distribution shifts in bioacoustics.

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Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend

TechCrunch

Founded by Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman and Laurent Gil in 2019, Cast AI — powered by AI, as the name implies — analyzes a company’s cloud usage to attempt to find the optimal cost-performance ratio. “Our goal is to have fewer people doing higher-order, more interesting work in cloud operations,” Frayman said.

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RO-ViT: Region-aware pre-training for open-vocabulary object detection with vision transformers

Google Research AI blog

To overcome this, the open-vocabulary detection task (OVD) has emerged, utilizing image-text pairs for training and incorporating new category names at test time by associating them with the image content. The position, scale, and aspect ratio of the crop is randomly sampled. At the system-level, our best model achieves 33.6

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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

The Verge

Our reviews generally leave extensive synthetic benchmarking to others — but the Slim 7 has been blowing Intel systems out of the water on those as well and coming close to Intel’s H-series Core i9 in multi-threaded performance. The 14-inch, 1920 x 1080 IPS panel is rated for 300 nits of brightness, but it only got up to 260 in my testing.

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3 Key Pieces in an Engaging Email Campaign

Connection Cafe

Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Test Subject Lines And Calls to Action, For Starters. Should nonprofits follow suit and test these elements? How to Test.

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