The last time we saw Imperator Furiosa, in the dystopian chase thriller "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), she had just returned from the heat of battle, her face streaked with blood, one eye swollen shut, her body so fatigued and battered that she could hardly stand. Furiosa, played by a stupendous Charlize Theron, had spent several days and nights driving an enormous truck, the War Rig, across miles of open desert, withstanding fiery assaults, a lethal sandstorm, and the surly company of a reluctant ally named Max (Tom Hardy). But triumph, at last, was hers: the vile warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) lay dead at her feet, and hundreds of newly liberated desert dwellers were erupting in celebration. Amid the chaos, Furiosa scanned the crowd for Max and caught him slinking away. For a moment, he looked back and gave her an approving nod--then turned and vanished into the throng.

Training and deploying large machine learning (ML) models is time-consuming and requires significant distributed computing infrastructures. Based on real-world large model training on datacenter-scale infrastructures, we show 14~32% of all GPU hours are spent on communication with no overlapping computation. To minimize the outstanding communication latency, in this work, we develop an agile performance modeling framework to guide parallelization and hardware-software co-design strategies. Using the suite of real-world large ML models on state-of-the-art GPU training hardware, we demonstrate 2.24x and 5.27x throughput improvement potential for pre-training and inference scenarios, respectively.

Whether you're at the pool, beach, lakefront, camping, or in your backyard, you'll need a reliable cooler to keep your water and other essential beverages nice and cold. However, not just any cooler will do.

George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road may have spent almost 20 years stuck in development hell, but the filmmaker had always envisioned the project without Mel Gibson in the lead. The 1979 original was the breakthrough role of the actor's career, and the sequel remains one of the greatest action movies ever made, but Miller was adamant that the title hero be recast after the Lethal Weapon star had aged out of consideration. Tom Hardy, 22 years Gibson's junior, was chosen to play the new Max Rockatansky instead, but in terms of the franchise's canon, he's the same character, just at a different stage of his life. The choice to recast was a wise one, too, as Fury Road left audiences with their jaws on the floor when it exploded onto the scene and almost instantly gained a reputation as a modern action classic, scoring the rare combination of box office success, universal critical acclaim and awards season glory. The post-apocalyptic blockbuster earned ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, and ended up walking away with six prizes in the technical categories.

The Humble WB Games Classics Bundle offers exactly what you'd expect: The hits. The bundle offers some seriously great PC games from classic franchises like Batman, Mad Max, and Middle-earth, and better yet, they're available for a ludicrously low price--just $12 to unlock all seven games included in the bundle. But Humble lets you pay what you want for its bundles, giving a portion of the proceeds to charity, and even $1 will let you in on some action. The $1 tier unlocks Batman: Arkham Origins, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition, and Scribblenauts Unlimited. Paying more than the average donation--currently sitting at $4.12--gets you DC Comics brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us, the open world Mad Max adaptation, and Bastion, a breathtaking action RPG that topped many games of the year lists when it released.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has teased a new'Mad Max' mode set to arrive on Tesla's all-electric Semi. In a recent tweet, the Tesla boss shared a photo showing various Autopilot settings, including a Mad Max option. The comments were prompted by a tweet from another user, who jokingly shared an image from the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road, where a Semi had been photoshopped alongside other vehicles from the movie. Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has teased a new'Mad Max' mode set to arrive on Tesla's all-electric Semi (pictured). Mad Max mode, included in Autopilot's'blind spot threshold' settings, would allow Semis to make more aggressive lane changes.

Tesla vehicles might soon be equipped for that special trip to the Thunderdome. Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at a "Mad Max" mode -- named after the post-apocalyptic adventure from director George Miller -- for its self-driving system Autopilot. On Sunday night, Musk shared a tweet from November 2017 by user Jon Gold, complementing the entrepreneur on the "Mad Max" inspired image of Tesla's Semi self-driving truck. "Tesla Semi Truck in Mad Max Mode," wrote Musk as he shared the tweet. It initially seemed like Musk was cracking a joke, but in a subsequent tweet, Musk said "Mad Max" mode was a real thing.

Oof, this one is rough. Over the weekend, despite good buzz and glowing reviews from critics, Blade Runner 2049 opened by bringing in a meager $31.5 million domestically at the box office, a figure well below expectations and one that looks particularly bleak when you factor in that the film reportedly cost more than $150 million to make. Were fans just unwilling to go back to Blade Runner's future 35 years after Ridley Scott's original film? Did women not want to see a movie where they had such limited roles? Or did the performance of Denis Villeneuve's Runner reboot just speak to the fact that not that many folks wanted to spend nearly three hours watching a moody--if stunning--sci-fi film when things are already so gloomy outside the multiplex?

Since the plagues of the Old Testament, we have contemplated the Apocalypse, the world rising in vengeance as men, women and children scurry across the brutal landscape of a lost paradise. Our doomsday stories and how they scroll and flash before us have changed since the parchment days of the Bible. But we remain fascinated by the specter of our demise, whether the end is wrought by deities, our own folly or imposed by outside forces like monsters, asteroids and aliens that have haunted us since Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. Few of our dystopias, however, are as frightening as the planet gone asunder, polluted and destroyed by humanity's amorality, recklessness and greed. Film and literature -- to say nothing of our private insecurities -- resound with a world that freezes, boils, chokes, cracks with earthquakes, dwindles with resources and succumbs to pestilence and disease.

The biggest disappointment reviewing ReCore is how strong it starts. You awake from stasis on the distant planet of Far Eden expecting to find a lush, terraformed planet capable of sustaining human life, 200 years in the making. Instead you find sand dunes. Miles upon miles of sand dunes, broken only by craggy brown rocks and the occasional half-built skyscraper. It falls to you to figure out what happened, traipsing off across the desert in search of answers with your trusty robo-dog companion Mack.