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Facebook open-sources RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents to answer questions

Facebook and AI startup Hugging Face today open-sourced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a natural language processing model that finds and interprets contextual information to complete a range of tasks. Facebook says that RAG can be tuned to attain state-of-the-art results by altering or supplementing its internal knowledge on the fly, enabling researchers to control what the model knows and…
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Venus Optics brings its Laowa 9mm T2.9, 12mm T2.9 and 15mm T2.1 cine primes to Canon RF mount

Venus Optics has announced it’s now adding a Canon RF lens mount option for three of its ultra-wide cinema primes: the 9mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens, 12mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens and 15mm T2.1 ‘Zero-D.’ The 12mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens was released back in January of this year, while the 9mm T2.9 and 15mm T2.1 ‘Zero-D’ lenses were announced back in June of this year. At the time, the lenses…
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Sneak Peek: Lightroom is Getting Advanced Color Grading

Adobe revealed today that it’s bringing a powerful new Advanced Color Grading feature to Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Adobe Camera Raw. This 2-minute video offers a sneak peek at how the panel works. The new panel draws inspiration from the Lumetri Color panel found…
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VW ID.4 spotted in wild in CA ahead of launch

We got our first look of the upcoming VW ID.4 at a private event last week, but now the car has shown up in public. Over the weekend, it was spotted by reddit user awang44 in a parking lot for a public park in Foster City, California, just a few miles from VW’s Innovation…
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Tesla is looking to acquire stake in LG’s battery business, surprising report says

Tesla is looking to acquire a stake in LG’s upcoming separated battery business, according to a surprising new report. LG Chem has been rumored to be looking at separating its battery business from its other operations and making them a new publicly-listed entity. Now The Korea Times, a news outlet based in South Korea like LG, reports that Tesla is interested in acquiring a stake in the…
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Zen Mode 2.0 now works with older OnePlus devices w/ OxygenOS 10

Late last year, OnePlus made their intriguing mindfulness-focused Zen Mode app a standalone option for those with compatible hardware. With OxygenOS 11, the Zen Mode 2.0 app was overhauled with the rest of the system UI but it was incompatible with older OnePlus hardware running Android 10 or below. Now an update is letting older OnePlus devices running OxygenOS 10 (based upon Android 10) download…
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