Kanye West and Bon Iver just featured in your new favorite song


Francis and the Lights isn’t a name that will ring a bell for a lot of people. Not yet, at least. That’s all about to change with the release of their new song Friends. The video clip for it was released hours ago and has already taken the world by storm, gaining hundreds of thousands of views overnight. The reality is that Francis and the Lights has been at it for a few years now, producing for and touring with acts like Drake and MGMT. In the Jake Schreier-directed video clip, we see Kanye West mouthing the lyrics, Starlite walking around, dancing with Bon Iver. It’s a…

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Intel’s data center chief talks machine learning — just don’t ask about GPUs

If you want to get under Diane Bryant’s skin these days, just ask her about GPUs.

The head of Intel’s powerful data center group was at Computex in Taipei this week, in part to explain how the company’s latest Xeon Phi processor is a good fit for machine learning.

Machine learning is the process by which companies like Google and Facebook train software to get better at performing AI tasks including computer vision and understanding natural language. It’s key to improving all kinds of online services: Google said recently that it’s rethinking everything it does around machine learning.

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