The RTX Remix runtime is open source with a permissive MIT license, and includes the following components: USD capture and replacement modules, which are responsible for capturing a game scene to USD, and replacing original game assets with modded game assets at runtime. Bridge, which translates the renderer from a x86 to a x64 instruction…
By making sure it avoids success at all costs, Haskell is actually one of the more fun programming languages to use in a real-world project. But the additional expressivity you get in Haskell in comparison with more mainstream languages comes at a cost.While running a course on functional programming and using Haskell for the practical…
Hey Hacker News! Last week we made the codebase for product 100% open source. This week we shipped a dashboard to manage connectors, as well as integrations with Google Drive, Zendesk and Confluence. This means Sidekick is now the fastest way to sync data from these tools to a vector database.Why is this important? For…
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A fascinating chart highlights how the world is in the midst of a reproduction crisis — as developed countries fall out of love with having children.In 2020, the global average fertility rate – the average number of children born to each woman – was 2.3, compared to 4.7 in 1970 — a staggering 51 percent…
The story of the Monuments Men is one of the most inspiring tales of heroism and sacrifice in the history of art preservation. These brave men and women risked their lives to save countless priceless artworks from the clutches of the Nazis during World War II. With their unwavering dedication to the cause, they left…
Posted by Julie Qiu, Go Security & Reliability and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team High profile open source vulnerabilities have made it clear that securing the supply chains underpinning modern software is an urgent, yet enormous, undertaking. As supply chains get more complicated, enterprise developers need to manage the tidal wave of vulnerabilities…
From a young age, people express themselves and their creativity through drawing. We created an AI system research demo to easily bring artwork to life through animation, and we are now releasing the animation code along with a novel dataset of nearly 180,000 annotated amateur drawings to help other AI researchers and creators to innovate…
(Image credit: Getty Images)Twenty years ago, an enormous scientific effort revealed that the human genome contains 20,000 protein-coding genes, but they account for just 2% of our DNA. The rest of was written off as junk – but we are now realising it has a crucial role to play.WWhen the 13-year-long effort to sequence the…
What it Means to Be Secure by Design and Secure by Default Every technology provider must take ownership at the executive level to ensure their products are both secure by design and secure by default. What is Secure by Design? Secure by Design products are those where the security of the customers is a core…