Before Illia Polosukhin left Google in 2017, he had a brainstorming lunch and then returned to his desk to build what may have been the very first transformer, the neural network architecture that makes generative artificial intelligence possible. Now, Polosukhin is considered one of the founding fathers of modern AI. Polosukhin co-wrote the now famous … Read more
30-year-old Caspar Lee was once a YouTube megastar and is now a serial entrepreneur. Caspar Lee Caspar Lee belongs to a crop of content creators who found early success on YouTube back in the 2010s, commanding millions of views on the platform. The 30-year-old serial entrepreneur, who was born in England and raised in Knysna, … Read more
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former President Donald J. Trump attend a security briefing with state officials and law enforcement at the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters before touring the US-Mexico border wall on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Weslaco, TX. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images Abraham George is … Read more
The chief executive of Norway’s gigantic sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday said there is “clearly a lot of froth” in the tech sector, suggesting that whether there is too much of it could depend on this week’s tech earnings bonanza. U.S. tech behemoths including Tesla, Meta, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are all scheduled to … Read more
This photo from Oculus shows what it might be like to play it in an apartment. Oculus The metaverse won Christmas this year. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, had the most popular app in Apple’s App Store on Christmas day: the Oculus virtual reality app. That’s the app people download to manage the Oculus VR headset, … Read more
