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Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model

Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model. Yes, really. In a blog post published Monday, Anthropic said that it tested its latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on the Game Boy classicPokémon Red. The company equipped the model with basic memory, screen pixel input, and function calls to press buttons and navigate around the […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

AWS Weekly Roundup: Cloud Club Captain Applications, Formula 1®, Amazon Nova Prompt Engineering, and more (Feb 24, 2025)

AWS Developer Day 2025, held on February 20th, showcased how to integrate responsible generative AI into development workflows. The event featured keynotes from AWS leaders includingSrini Iragavarapu, Director Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, David Nalley, Director Open Source Marketing of AWS, along with AWS Heroes and technical […]

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout

SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday. The spaceflight company is still waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

What Microsoft’s Majorana 1 Chip Means for Quantum Decryption

The question is whether Majorana 1 advances progress toward quantum computing – or for security professionals, the arrival of computers powerful enough to break PKE. The post What Microsoft’s Majorana 1 Chip Means for Quantum Decryption appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: SecurityWeek favicon SecurityWeek

What Is Subaru's Solterra Connect Package & What Features Does It Come With?

The Subaru Solterra has its own unique Solterra Connect with safety and convenience options. Here's what's included and how much the individual packages cost.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

SoundCloud partners with Ticketmaster to let artists list events

Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Live Nation, to let artists list events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t give any more details. […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

How to Integrate Platform Engineering Into Your Business

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2025 Trend Report,Developer Experience: The Coalescence of Developer Productivity, Process Satisfaction, and Platform Engineering. How do we even start approaching platform engineering? The good news is that major organizations that have successfully adopted platform engineering have contributed their insights, best practices, and lessons...

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: DZone favicon DZone

MagSafe Monday: Creativity meets function with the MOFT Action Inspiration

So many accessories for MagSafe revolve around charging, docking, etc. Some of them are not technology-related but work with an analog approach. The is an awesome product for those who love sticky notes but need something on the go. more…

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Solana Plunges to Lowest Price Since October as Meme Momentum Cools

Solana, the sixth-largest cryptocurrency, has fallen even as multiple asset managers have applied for ETFs based on its spot price.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

Gmail will stop using SMS for two-factor authentication

Google is planning to end support for SMS-based two-factor authentication in Gmail, Forbes reports. Sending a code to your personal phone via text message has long been an option Google offered to verify your identity, but it has unavoidable security issues the company wants to address. The goal is to "reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse," Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer tells Forbes, and the solution,...

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Hackers steal over $1bn in one of the biggest crypto thefts ever

Hackers did not compromise Bybit system, but rather its employees.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Disney+ just dropped an explosive trailer for Andor season 2

It’s been well over two years, but the wait is almost over. The second season of Andor hits Disney+ on April 22. The platform just dropped a juicy trailer to get all of us Star Wars fans pumped and ready. The footage shows plenty of cool stuff, including the return of Rogue One’s chief antagonist Orson Crennic and the beloved droid K-2SO. The Death Star makes an appearance, which isn’t surprising given the ending of...

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Khosla Ventures seeks $3.5B in fresh capital

Khosla Ventures, a firm known for early investments in OpenAI, is raising $3.5 billion across three funds, The Wall Street Journal reported.That target is 17% larger than the firm’s previous 2023 fund haul of $3 billion. About half of the new capital will be allocated to its ninth core venture fund. The remaining money will […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

A Brief History Of The Swiss Army Knife: The World's Most Recognizable Multi-Tool

Swiss Army knives are popular multitools that have seen wide adoption from fictional TV heroes to actual military use. Here's how they came into being.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Today’s Android app deals and freebies: Crystal Journey, Earthlings Beware!, Water Tracker, more

This afternoon’s roundup of the best Google Play price drops on Android games and apps is now at the ready down below. On your way down be sure to scope out the ongoing Samsung Galaxy S25/Ultra deals – FREE double storage upgrade, up to 84% off Galaxy Buds, up to $900 off with trade, and a score a FREE Galaxy Fit3 wearable. We are also tracking some deep deals on SanDisk’s 1.5TB 150MB/s Ultra microSD as well as a wider...

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Wired - Business favicon Wired - Business

Ember Mug 2 drops to a new record-low price, only today!

I haven't had cold coffee in months, and you shouldn't either!

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Android Authority favicon Android Authority

Texting while driving? AI traffic cameras are watching you in these 5 states

After successful trials in Europe, 'Heads Up' cameras are coming to more places in the US. Here's how they work.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

The first 5 MacOS commands every user should learn

Ever find yourself wanting to do things on your Mac with a bit more efficiency? The command line is ready and waiting! Here are the first five commands you ought to learn.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Argon40 teases new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 laptop prototype

It is still early days, with no price or details as yet

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Tom's Hardware favicon Tom's Hardware

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System

At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

Trump Sucks Elon Musk’s Toes in AI Video Played on Federal Agency TVs

The Department of Housing and Urban Development showed the video with the text "Long Live The Real King."

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

Report: Samsung’s take on a ‘tri-fold’ foldable to have two separate displays, coming alongside Fold 7

Samsung is reportedly planning on debuting its tri-fold Galaxy device alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 7. The company is taking a different approach to the “tri-fold” device than we’ve seen from the like of Huawei, with seemingly twice the number of displays, and Samsung’s might be a better option. more…

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

There’s some good news and bad news about Samsung’s triple-screen foldable

Samsung's July Unpacked event could treat us to its latest 'one more thing.'

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Android Authority favicon Android Authority

Microsoft set to rival Google, IBM with first-of-its-kind quantum chip with topological core architecture

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a Topological Core architecture, paving the way for a one-million-qubit quantum processor.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Google's Gemini AI might soon back up Siri on your iPhone - just like ChatGPT

Given Siri's limitations and lack of AI abilities, Apple aims to give its users an easy and seamless way to work with a true AI bot.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Asus reveals scented wireless mouse for a multi-sensory computing experience

Do we really need odorous, potentially smelly pointing devices on our desks? Asus seems to think so and is offering its new Fragrance Mouse for customers seeking a more synesthetic experience while using their PCs. The wireless mouse, according to Asus, emits a scent that can be customized at will.Read Entire Article

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechSpot favicon TechSpot

What Is Audi E-Tron & Which Production Models Have The Name?

European car companies may be slowing down their march toward electrification, but the Audi e-tron line is still growing. Here's what the brand's up to.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Google Drive users can now access and search transcripts for videos

After launching automatically generated captions for videos last year, Google Drive is now launching searchable video transcripts. Google announced that starting Monday, Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos. The new feature gets rid of the need to upload a video’s audio to a transcription service like Otter. Transcripts will appear […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

8 Little-Known Amazon Gadgets Worth Trying For Yourself

From inkless printers to remote scroll controllers, these 8 little-known gadgets are surprisingly useful and budget-friendly. See what you've been missing.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

The revolution starts now in the Andor season 2 trailer

In the trailer for Andor season 2, Cassian Andor transitions into a leader and captain for the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars show.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want

Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to. Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry’s first “hybrid AI reasoning model,” because it’s a single model that can give both real-time answers and more considered, “thought-out” […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new coding tools.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Eyes on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra? Take advantage of these deals

There are a lot of deals for the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, including a free storage upgrade to 512GB, extra Samsung Credit, and an enhanced trade-in program.

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars

Article URL: https://minimaxir.com/2025/02/embeddings-parquet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162995 Points: 107 # Comments: 32

Published on: February 24, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News