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Outdoor activities reduce stress, but safety in high temperatures is paramount. Source: Eberhard Grossgasteiger/Pexels Walking in nature, jogging, outdoor sports, listening to the birds singing, gardening – these are just some of the ways to relax and unwind from the ever-increasing stressors we face in a stressful and complex world. But with record heatwaves becoming a common health warning, it's important to find a balance between what relieves stress and what exacerbates it. Article continues after ad Extreme heat and mental and physical health According to NASA, 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and 2024 is on track…

Ennan Zhai, an engineer and researcher at Alibaba Cloud, shared a research paper on GitHub, revealing the cloud provider's design of its data center for LLM training. Titled “Alibaba HPN: Data Center Network for Large-Scale Language Model Training,” the PDF document outlines how Alibaba will use Ethernet to enable 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each other.Typical cloud computing generates consistent but small data flows at speeds below 10 Gbps. LLM training, on the other hand, generates periodic data bursts that can reach up to 400 Gbps. According to the paper, “This characteristic of LLM training makes Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP), a…

Matthew Sasser, National Affairs Pro Last fall, the state's chief technology officer walked into a classroom of Richmond County high school students and asked the question: “Did you know that there are currently more than 21,000 cybersecurity jobs open in the state of North Carolina alone?” Jim Weaver, the state's information technology commissioner and chief information officer, had just delivered a carload of supplies and equipment to computer science students in one of North Carolina's rural counties. “No matter what career field you choose, you have to learn how to use and leverage elements of information technology to be successful,”…

A story has been shared on Instagram that shows the “worst and best” of humanity. It tells the story of an orphaned baby gorilla who suffered at the hands of some villagers, but was rescued and treated with love and kindness. This story is inspiring to watch. This photo shows a baby gorilla bonding with his human “mama” after a traumatic experience. (Instagram/@jungle_doctor) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Veterinarian Dr Chloe Breiting shared the video on her Instagram page, with the caption explaining the story of the baby gorilla named Mvogu. Get ready to watch the final stage of the World…

Johnny McEntire and Amy Cortez met and married on season six of Netflix's Love Is Blind. Cortez told People magazine that she experienced stress-related illness around the time the season began airing earlier this year. The reality star said she is in a “much healthier and happier place” thanks to her husband. Jonny McEntire and Amy Cortez said “I do” on the Season 6 finale of Love Is Blind, promising to stay together through sickness and health, but the reality TV stars didn't expect that to be put to the test so soon into their marriage. Cortez, 28, told People…

Thanks to commercial options, feeding your dog or cat a raw diet is easier than ever. Feeding a raw diet to dogs and cats is controversial, but it's becoming an increasingly popular choice among pet owners. Proponents of a raw food diet would argue that animals benefit from a diet based on what their pre-domesticated ancestors ate, and that grain-based commercial foods are harmful because they are not part of an animal's natural diet. While not all grain-free foods are the same – ingredients like corn, wheat and soy are known allergens, and added fillers can lead to obesity, diabetes…

(KMAland) — Five hundred Missouri high school girls are the stars of a new documentary.Girls State is described as a political coming-of-age film in which girls participate in an immersive, week-long democracy experiment as they build a mock government from the ground up and address important issues like abortion rights and encouraging more women to serve in government.The film is a sequel to “Boys State,” which won awards at major film festivals in 2020. Filmmaker Amanda McBain, who co-directed both films with Jesse Moss, said it was interesting to compare the Girls State and Boys State programs because it was…

As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department agreed to new guidelines limiting how it can use facial recognition technology.The new policy prohibits police from arresting someone based solely on the results of a facial recognition test or on the results of a mugshot scan conducted immediately following a facial recognition test, and specifies that mugshot scans cannot be conducted based solely on facial recognition, but instead require additional evidence linking a suspect to a crime.The policy, which could be enforced by the courts over the next four years, also mandates police training on the risks and dangers…

As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department agreed to new guidelines limiting how it can use facial recognition technology. The new policy prohibits police from arresting someone based solely on the results of a facial recognition test or on the results of a mugshot scan conducted immediately following a facial recognition test, and specifies that mugshot scans cannot be conducted based solely on facial recognition, but instead require additional evidence linking a suspect to a crime. The policy, which could be enforced by the courts over the next four years, also mandates police training on the risks…