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The .NET Upgrade Assistant team has recently introduced a significant upgrade: the Central Package Management (CPM) feature. This new capability enables .NET developers to manage dependencies more effectively, streamlining the upgrade process and maintaining consistency across various projects within a solution. The tool is available as a Visual Studio extension and a command-line interface (CLI), […]
Nikon announced that it is developing a new Nikkor Z 28-135mm f/4 PZ lens. It’s the company’s first-ever, full-frame, video-centric lens and signifies a continued shift in the company’s direction first marked by the video features of the Z9 and then later via its acquisition of RED Cinema earlier this year. Camera historians may be […]
The big-ticket item at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November this year will be the development of a new climate finance goal for funding to developing countries — the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). However, weeks out from COP29, NCQG negotiations are in a […]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has unveiled a definition framework to evaluate whether AI systems can be classified as open-source. The announcement of the first Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) was made at All Things Open and marks the culmination of a comprehensive global effort spanning multiple years of research, international workshops, and a year-long […]
The previous blog looked at some studies of the relationship between China’s aid and its influence that posit a mediating role for domestic political institutions. Early empirical research suggests that this kind of analytic lens is relevant to the Pacific. This is a region that comprises countries with largely open — albeit in some cases […]
MIT researchers have developed a robot training method that reduces time and cost while improving adaptability to new tasks and environments. The approach – called Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers (HPT) – combines vast amounts of diverse data from multiple sources into a unified system, effectively creating a shared language that generative AI models can process. This […]
As part of its tenth anniversary, we collaborated with Femili PNG to produce a report using the client data the organisation has collected since its inception in 2014. Survivors of family and sexual violence who turn to Femili PNG are categorized into four groups based on the abuse they have endured: intimate-partner violence (IPV), non-intimate-partner […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Op-Ed Striking a balance between resource extraction and environmental sustainability is essential Author of the article: Published Oct 26, 2024 • Last updated 2 hours ago • 4 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology […]
Microsoft released version 8.1 of the Windows Community Toolkit in August 2024. The new release has updated dependencies, .NET 8 support, two new controls and several changes to existing controls and helpers. The Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) is a collection of controls and libraries that help Windows developers by providing additional features that the underlying […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links Homes Buying & Selling Condos Monogram will be a skyline stand out Published Oct 25, 2024 • 4 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Standout kitchen features include the metallic look backsplashes and quartz countertops with waterfall edges on […]