The system uses an AI model that would trigger a Kevlar bubble cocoon in the event of a crash. 'REBIRTH is more than engineering--it's a response to grief,' the researchers wrote. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An Air India flight from Ahmedabad bound for London spent just 30 seconds in the air before disaster struck earlier this year . Preliminary reports indicate that the aircraft's fuel control switches were inexplicably turned off shortly after takeoff, cutting fuel to the engines and causing total power loss.

Videos contain a wealth of information, and generating detailed and accurate descriptions in natural language is a key aspect of video understanding. In this paper, we present video-SALMONN 2, an advanced audio-visual large language model (LLM) with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) designed for enhanced video (with paired audio) captioning through directed preference optimization (DPO). We propose new metrics to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of video descriptions, which are optimized using DPO. To further improve training, we introduce a novel multi-round DPO (mrDPO) approach, which involves periodically updating the DPO reference model, merging and re-initializing the LoRA module as a proxy for parameter updates after each training round (1,000 steps), and incorporating guidance from ground-truth video captions to stabilize the process. To address potential catastrophic forgetting of non-captioning abilities due to mrDPO, we propose rebirth tuning, which finetunes the pre-DPO LLM by using the captions generated by the mrDPO-trained model as supervised labels. Experiments show that mrDPO significantly enhances video-SALMONN 2's captioning accuracy, reducing global and local error rates by 40\% and 20\%, respectively, while decreasing the repetition rate by 35\%. The final video-SALMONN 2 model, with just 7 billion parameters, surpasses leading models such as GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5-Pro in video captioning tasks, while maintaining competitive performance to the state-of-the-art on widely used video question-answering benchmark among models of similar size. Upon acceptance, we will release the code, model checkpoints, and training and test data. Demos are available at \href{https://video-salmonn-2.github.io}{https://video-salmonn-2.github.io}.

One night this past February, over drinks and moody bar lighting, Eric Green and his friends were swapping stories of their recent hookups when one mentioned they'd used the app Sniffies to have public sex. A 30-year-old tattoo artist who works in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Green identifies as a bottom, is a frequent user of dating apps, and has an active sex life--only, he'd never heard of Sniffies. It wasn't long after that night out, Green was overtaken by "complete and total horniness" while at home, and decided to sign up himself. When he opened the app he was reminded of Google Maps, only instead of restaurants and shopping recommendations, he was inundated with nudes and suggestions for the nearest pump-and-dump. "I expected it to be like Grindr and Jack'd, but after I checked it out I realized it was super accessible," Green says, referencing two other popular queer hookup platforms.

For the third time in less than two years, I have COVID-19. Whenever an illness has forced me to stay in bed, my comfort food has been gaming. In 2009 I played through all of Assassin's Creed II in a feverish, swine flu-induced haze. When I was sick with COVID for the first time, I jumped into Red Dead Redemption 2 blind, and found a story about sickness and human mortality. Now, during one of the most stacked years in recent gaming history, I find myself under the covers not with Starfield, Spider-Man 2 or any of the other big fall releases.

The two-year online stint also proved to be a fruitful testing ground to improve the viewing experience for fans at home. Battle royale esports have always faced unique challenges for spectators. While games like "Overwatch" and "Valorant" take place on smaller maps and feature only 10 players, each game of "Apex Legends" is set on a much larger piece of terrain and begins with 60 different players active. They can be eliminated at any time, and each game lasts about twenty minutes, with a fair amount of downtime. Nelson rightly touts the development of Multiview to make "Apex" easier to watch, a Twitch feature that allows fans of particular teams or players to see the action from individual perspectives, with up to four different viewpoints at once.

In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance of the heavily visited ruins. The 2010 collapse of a hall where gladiators trained nearly cost Pompeii its coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. But these days, Pompeii is experiencing the makings of a rebirth. Excavations undertaken as part of engineering stabilization strategies to prevent new collapses are yielding a raft of revelations about the everyday lives of Pompeii's residents, as the lens of social class analysis is increasingly applied to new discoveries.

Qualcomm processors for PCs enhanced by the company's Nuvia design team will sample in 2022 for devices shipping in 2023, Qualcomm executives said Tuesday. The company also boldly pledged to offer Adreno graphics that could compete with desktop PCs. At the company's 2021 investor day in New York, Dr. James Thompson, chief technology officer at Qualcomm, offered an overview of the company's technology roadmap in several areas. A key focus, naturally, will be how and when Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors will integrate the Nuvia design team, an Arm CPU developer that Qualcomm acquired in January. Processor development takes time, however, and that integration won't happen immediately.

Every year I travel the world as part of my job to discover, discuss and share the future with people from all walks of life. And what I found is this: the future is likely to be better than we think – but we need to design and govern it wisely! Just two decades in, the twenty-first century has already presented us with a massive economic crash, geopolitical quagmires and worrisome swings towards popularism. This may not be the optimal context for heralding a New Renaissance - but then again, the original renaissance wasn't born in idyllic circumstances either. Rather, it was a literal rebirth of human culture.

Sony was once the king of consumer electronics, the Apple of its day. It had a slew of iconic products. The brand was so synonymous with cutting-edge quality, its tagline was simply "It's a Sony." But against the rise of tech giants such as Apple and Samsung, it's struggled to adapt to changing trends in the electronics world and watched its prominence evaporate in nearly everything from televisions to smartphones. Now, Sony is trying to reintroduce itself to the US market.

Sony was once the king of consumer electronics, the Apple of its day. It had a slew of iconic products. The brand was so synonymous with cutting-edge quality, its tagline was simply "It's a Sony." But against the rise of tech giants such as Apple and Samsung, it's struggled to adapt to changing trends in the electronics world and watched its prominence evaporate in nearly everything from televisions to smartphones. Now, Sony is trying to reintroduce itself to the US market.