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Dabo Swinney, Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day among top-25 college football coaches facing pressure in 2024 season – CBS Sports
CBS Sports capped its 2024 Power Four coach rankings with the release of Wednesday's top 25, highlighting the upper echelon of coaches at the highest level of college football. This year's list features several new names after Nick Saban's retirement and Jim Harbaugh's departure for the NFL left some huge vacancies near the top. Georgia's
Should the WVU/Marshall Football Series Return?
The in-state clash between West Virginia and Marshall has only occurred twelve times on the gridiron with the Mountaineers winning all twelve of those matchups and by an average of 29.8 points per game. The last time "The Coal Bowl" was played was back in 2012 when WVU lit up the scoreboard with a 69-34
Ranking the top 25 Power Four college football coaches entering the 2024 season
The CBS Sports and 247Sports experts have ranked every Power Four coach from 1-68 as the season approaches May 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET • 14 min read Hailey Meuchel, CBS Sports We began ranking Power Five -- now Power Four -- college football coaches at CBS Sports in 2015, and for the first
Starting the Era of 1-bit LLMs – With Microsoft Research
itNet is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}. It matches the full-precision (i.e...
Microsoft makes major quantum computing breakthrough — development of most stable qubits might actually make the technology viable for many, but will anyone be...
Unlike traditional computing that uses binary bits, quantum computing uses quantum bits or 'qubits', enabling simultaneous processing of vast amounts of data, potentially solving complex problems much faster than conventional computers. In a major step forward for quantum computing, Microsoft and Quantinuum have unveiled the most reliable logical qubits to date, boasting an error rate
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Meet Only Office: This free Microsoft Office rival is delightfully robust
Microsoft Office may offer a lot of functions, but it costs money. The open source alternatives are free. We present the little-known Only Office in detail. After installing and opening the program, you can start a new text document, spreadsheet, or presentation from the menu on the left...
Microsoft showcases next-generation AI and computing at Nvidia GTC
February 26, 2024 7:30 AM Presented by Microsoft “The promise of AI” has always been about big ideas and far-flung possibilities – until now. The number of new, innovative and practical use cases are piling up. Businesses that were out of the gate first are seeing real ROI from their AI leaps of faith and
Microsoft to reveal Xbox multi-platform game plans next week in ‘business update event”
Halo Infinite on PS5 confirmed (not really) Feb 5, 2024 4:58 PM EST 1 comment Microsoft has confirmed it will share details surrounding its rumoured plans to bring Xbox Series X/S exclusives like Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield to other consoles, including the PlayStation 5. Phil Spencer head of all things Xbox at Microsoft posted an
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Microsoft seeks to shine light on AI’s transformative power with Super Bowl ad
As the Super Bowl approaches and excitement around it builds, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced that it will have a Super Bowl commercial for the first time in four years, and this time, it will be dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Excited for all that people will achieve with this next generation of AI, as we bring the
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Dabo Swinney, Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day among top-25 college football coaches facing pressure in 2024 season – CBS Sports
CBS Sports capped its 2024 Power Four coach rankings with the release of Wednesday's top 25, highlighting the upper echelon of coaches at the highest level of college football. This year's list features several new names after Nick Saban's retirement and Jim Harbaugh's departure for the NFL left some huge vacancies near the top. Georgia's
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Should the WVU/Marshall Football Series Return?
The in-state clash between West Virginia and Marshall has only occurred twelve times on the gridiron with the Mountaineers winning all twelve of those matchups and by an average of 29.8 points per game. The last time "The Coal Bowl" was played was back in 2012 when WVU lit up the scoreboard with a 69-34
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Ranking the top 25 Power Four college football coaches entering the 2024 season
The CBS Sports and 247Sports experts have ranked every Power Four coach from 1-68 as the season approaches May 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET • 14 min read Hailey Meuchel, CBS Sports We began ranking Power Five -- now Power Four -- college football coaches at CBS Sports in 2015, and for the first
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Cannabis and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. That’s what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa and Mastercard’s territory
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VMware’s Workstation Pro virtual machine software is now free for home users
Image: VMware Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) But they’re not easy to set up, especially if you’re a newbie. They just got a lot easier, because VMware made its popular Workstation Pro and