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Samsung introduces new sleep-tracking metrics that take advantage of SmartThings enabled devices
Samsung just announced new sleep-tracking tools available via the company’s Health app. This includes a new analysis tool that leverages other SmartThings enabled devices. Each morning, users receive a “sleep environment report” that takes factors like temperature, humidity, air quality and light intensity into account. The app will also let folks automatically adjust room settings via the aforementioned connected...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:
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Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes
Conservative thinktank wants firm to end its DEI efforts because they create ‘litigation, reputational and financial risks’Business live – latest updatesApple has asked shareholders to vote against a proposal to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, as tech rivals scale back similar schemes before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:Understanding the Evolution of ChatGPT: Part 2 — GPT-2 and GPT-3
Understanding the Evolution of ChatGPT: Part 2—GPT-2 andGPT-3Scaling from 117M to 175B: Insights into GPT-2 andGPT-3.(Image from Unsplash)This is the second article of our GPT series, where we will dive into the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3, with model size increased from 117M to a staggering 175B.In case you are interested in the first article which covers GPT-1 as well as the techniques inspired it, check this...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against AI “Hacking as a Service” Scheme
Not sure this will matter in the end, but it’s a positive move: Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed to allow the creation of harmful and illicit content using the company’s platform for AI-generated content. The foreign-based defendants developed tools specifically designed to bypass safety guardrails Microsoft has erected to prevent the creation of...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:Pythagora AI Makes Iterative AI Coding Tool Widely Available
Pythagora AI today made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that is designed to more interactively enable application developers to automate the writing of code and streamline debugging workflows.
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:(Right-Nulled) Generalised LR Parsing
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Published on: January 12, 2025 | Source:Canada’s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau’s exit
The world’s richest man looks to move Canada to the right as the beleaguered prime minister prepares to departThe decision by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, this week to resign as head of the Liberal party has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by Donald Trump’s “America first” economic nationalism. It has...
Published on: January 12, 2025 | Source:NY Attorney General files lawsuit to recoup $2.2M in crypto lost to job scam
Victims in New York were promised “well-paying, flexible jobs,” only to be tricked into a crypto scam, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Published on: January 12, 2025 | Source:Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we're going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there's a lot of small things that go into making CES a one-of-a-kind event. To highlight some of the silly, stupid and...
Published on: January 11, 2025 | Source:How Watch Duty’s wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge ‘We view what we are doing as a public service,’ says the cofounder of the nonprofit that millions of people are relying on to stay safe. If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably already intimately familiar with Watch Duty, the free app that shows active fires, mandatory evacuation zones, air quality indexes, wind direction, and a wealth of other information that everyone, from...
Published on: January 11, 2025 | Source:CES 2025: The best tech and gadgets we saw in Las Vegas
CES 2025 has come to a close — Friday was the final day of the show — and team Engadget has departed Las Vegas. Our reporters and editors spent the week scouring endless carpeted convention halls of the CES show floor, braving lines of chain smokers, overcoming nasty colds and sore ankles and fielding thousands of emails a day to find the best and most credible products at the show. It was quite the challenge, as the...
Published on: January 11, 2025 | Source:Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Mark Zuckerberg takes his “no, really, Mr. Trump, I’m your guy!” tour to Joe Rogan | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I’ll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out: Mark Zuckerberg’s interview on The Joe Rogan Experience is full of lies. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, sets the tone at the very beginning: “I think...
Published on: January 11, 2025 | Source:Health care experts believe regenerative medicine has reached an ‘inflection point’
The CEO of Xenco Medical and the general manager of Terumo BCT discussed the future of regenerative medicine, and how we've arrived at where we are.
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Researchers improved AI agent performance on unfamiliar tasks using ‘Dungeons and Dragons’
AgentRefine gives AI agents and models the ability to recognize errors and self-correct to work better for general tasks.
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The robots we saw at CES 2025: The good, the bad and the completely unhinged
It was an interesting year for robots at CES 2025. While we had hoped the AI boom would bring a new wave of useful robots to the show, it seems that many robotics companies are still figuring out exactly how to best use AI. What we found instead was a mix of adorable robot companions, strange concepts and one, slightly terrifying humanoid. We visited a lot of robots at CES and, for better or worse, some really left an...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:A tale of four Kodaks
It was while walking past the RadioShack booth at CES 2025 that I spied the Kodak stand not far ahead. And it was while musing about the fate of those two storied — okay maybe not storied — names that I spied another Kodak booth two rows over. For a company that’s been dead more than a few times over, it’s certainly enjoying something of a renaissance. Look, it’s not as if there haven’t always been brands that die and...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:CES 2025 was more shoppable than conceptual
CES 2025 was a fantastic show for companies making good on the promises of years past. At these events, we’re used to seeing booth after booth of gadgets in concept and prototype phases, with vague details about final designs and release windows of “eventually.” This year, however, the vibe was way more release-ready. A handful of high-profile projects that debuted at previous CESes are back with concrete plans and...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:An Apple AirTags four-pack is down to $70, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals
It's CES week at Engadget, and our team has been on the ground in Las Vegas checking out tons of new devices, from the good to the weird to the ones that make you look like a sleep paralysis demon. Only a few gadgets from the show are actually available to buy, however, and even less are discounted. If you're looking for a good sale right now, we're back with another edition of our weekly deal roundup. This week's...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The best of CES 2025
CES 2025 is coming to a close — today is the final day of the show — and team Engadget is ready to leave Las Vegas. Our reporters and editors have scoured endless carpeted convention halls of the CES show floor, braved lines of chain smokers, overcome nasty colds and sore ankles and fielded thousands of emails a day to find the best and most credible products at the show. As expected, the vast majority of things we saw...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The new robot vacuums that caught our eye at CES 2025
Splashy TV and laptop launches are some of the topics that tend to dominate CES, but for CES 2025, many companies tried to make waves in the robot vacuum space as well. These smart home devices have come a long way in the past few years, but it has seemed for a bit that vacuuming, mopping, and self-emptying might be the peak of what they can do. But that’s not the case, as many CES exhibitors showed by debuting home...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The weirdest tech we saw at CES 2025
All manner of tech is shown off at CES, from the mundane to the absolutely wild — and it’s usually the oddest gadgets that steal the show. Thousands of exhibitors come from all over the world to show off their devices, and you never really know what they’re gonna come up with. CES 2025 definitely did not disappoint on the wild-and-wacky tech front. Below, we’ve rounded up the weirdest tech at CES 2025 that we...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Lawsuit says Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of pirated materials to train Llama AI
Meta knowingly used pirated materials to train its Llama AI models — with the blessing of company chief Mark Zuckerberg — according to an ongoing copyright lawsuit against the company. As TechCrunch reports, the plaintiffs of the Kadrey v. Meta case submitted court documents talking about the company's use of of the LibGen dataset for AI training. LibGen is generally described as a "shadow library" that provides...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Model Calibration, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples for Beginners
MODEL EVALUATION & OPTIMIZATIONWhen all models have similar accuracy, nowwhat?You’ve trained several classification models, and they all seem to be performing well with high accuracy scores. Congratulations!But hold on—is one model truly better than the others? Accuracy alone doesn’t tell the whole story. What if one model consistently overestimates its confidence, while another underestimates it? This is where...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The sustainable tiny home trend at CES 2025 revived my dream of building a compound
Small-scale, hyper-efficient living has always appealed to me, so I was overjoyed to step into numerous examples of sustainable tiny homes this week at CES 2025. There were EV RVs, trailers geared for camping and deliverable, turn-key, self-sustaining living pods. I want one of each to create a little eco village somewhere, preferably within walking distance to a bakery, coffee shop and Thai food. While none of these...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:6 Signs you Should be a Product Designer in 2025
Become a Product Designer in 2025 if these 6 signs resonate withyou!Should I pursue design in2025?Imagine waking up every day excited to create products that change theworld.A career in product design offers just that—a unique opportunity to bring your ideas to life while shaping the future of technology, sustainability, and user experiences.Whether it’s crafting innovative gadgets, designing intuitive digital...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The application of Persuasive and Behavioral Techniques to Improve Saving Habits
We all have habits, some good and some bad. Not to worry; this article isn’t about your habits but about helping you build positive habits like saving. Human wants are insatiable. We want to buy everything from fragrances to dinner with friends to traveling the world. In an article published by Barclays customers are looking for ways to spend more wisely to offset growing living costs. contactless payment has made it...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Looking for leadership role models in the wrong places
Be careful when taking inspiration from tech gurus. Success isn’t the only metric to good leadership.When Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs hit the shelves, it became an instant bestseller. Suddenly, every entrepreneur thought the key to success was emulating Jobs’ quirks—from his obsessive attention to detail to his reputation for being, let’s say, “difficult.” It was as if wearing black turtlenecks and being...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Samsung isn't talking about Eclipsa Audio at CES 2025
Before CES 2025 kicked off in Las Vegas, Samsung announced that its spatial audio collaboration with Google would be available on its 2025 TVs and soundbars. Finer details on the platform were noticeably absent from that announcement, with the company only noting that the 3D Eclipsa Audio would be available this year for YouTube content creators. There was also the general explanation that the platform would enable...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Introducing the best of CES 2025 winners
As we finish up our live coverage of all things CES, it’s time to pick the best in show. So many of the new things we saw this year had an AI component, with a noticeable uptick in AR glasses, hearing aid earbuds, solar-powered tech, emotional support robots and robot vacuums. (Why this year, robovacs?) Our list of CES 2025 winners covers various categories, ranging from typical Engadgety things like PCs, home...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents
Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Should You Be a Software Generalist or Specialist?
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Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source:Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe
Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects.
Published on: January 09, 2025 | Source:Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris.It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box.All in all it's...
Published on: January 09, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Finding fun and relaxation in the middle of CES 2025
The world’s biggest tech show is approaching its end, and it’s been hard. Mostly. But it’s not without its perks. Perhaps you got to sit in and experience the first CES press event inside the fully screened Sphere, or maybe you’re getting a lovely facial treatment that combines cooling plates with LED light therapy, creating photos that will haunt you for the rest of your professional career? Or perhaps you’re fleeing...
Published on: January 09, 2025 | Source:The Data Scientist’s Dilemma: Answering “What If?” Questions Without Experiments
A hands-on alternative to Google’s CausalImpactPhoto by Vedrana Filipović onUnsplashWhat is the impact of my last advertising campaign? What are the long-term costs of Brexit? How much has I gained in my new pricing strategy? All these questions are commonly asked of data scientists and other data practitioners (maybe not the one on Brexit, but it is interesting nonetheless). It makes sense because stakeholders are...
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