California announces the largest public broadband network in the country

California announces the largest public broadband network in the country

California recently launched the nation’s largest public broadband network — and its communities serve indigenous people first. On April 2, Governor Gavin Newsom officially “opened” the new California Middle-Mile Broadband Network (MMBN), part of the province’s Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative and the promise of Broadband for All. One of the few projects funded by the $3.2 … Read more

Age verification hurts sex educators, study suggests

Age verification hurts sex educators, study suggests

Experts have warned about how age verification rules it will impact people’s jobs and bank accounts – and now preliminary research suggests they’re right. Age verification laws vary by country, but generally require submitting proof of age, either a face scan or uploading a government ID, to view potentially adult content. Starting in 2022, these … Read more

TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts

TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts

In the current state of computer vision, a common operating procedure involves a modular ‘Lego brick’ approach: a vision encoder pre-trained for feature extraction paired with a separate decoder for task prediction. Although effective, this separation of structures makes it difficult to measure and hinders the interaction between language and vision. I Technology Innovation Institute … Read more