In this Folium tutorial, we build a complete set of interactive maps that run in Colab or any local Python setup. We explore multiple basemap styles, design rich markers with HTML popups, and visualize spatial density using heatmaps. We also create region-level choropleth maps from GeoJSON, scale ...

Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) currently presents a significant engineering trade-off between the flexibility of In-Context Learning (ICL) and the efficiency of Context Distillation (CD) or Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Tokyo-based Sakana AI has proposed a new approach to bypass these ...

Running a giveaway on social media is not a new concept. But running a collaborative giveaway, together with a brand or your bestie? Now, that’s a…

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The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category.  The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard”—is part of the publication’s Power Hungry ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think Ten years ago AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI program, stunned the world by defeating the South Korean Go ...

Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative to proprietary embedding APIs. Architectural ...

Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. The game is an ancient one, with sacred stature in South Korea.  But inside the building, rooms once ...

Nano Banana! The image model that took the world by storm just got eclipsed by…itself. Yes! Google did it again. After establishing standards by their release of Nano banana, they are back with its high anticipated follow-up: Nano Banana 2 (officially designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). This new ...

Try the following – ask any Excel user for his/ her favourite Excel formula. More often than not, you will hear just this one name -VLOOKUP. And this fame is for all the right reasons. From finance teams reconciling numbers to analysts cleaning messy datasets, this function quietly powers the most ...