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Every Helicopter Made By Kawasaki (And What They're Used For)
While Kawasaki might be known as a motorcycle manufacturer by the general public, its also responsible for making civilian and military helicopters in Japan.
Published on: November 23, 2024 | Source:
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Apple Black Friday deals: The M4 Mac mini drops to a record low of $500
Apple's new Mac mini hasn’t been available for that long yet, but you can already grab it at a discount. The M4-powered Mac mini has dropped to an all-time low of $500 thanks to a discount and an additional, clippable coupon that will bring the final price down to $500. That’s a total of $100 of savings off the original price. The 2024 Mac Mini is available with an M4 or M4 Pro chip, both of which give the desktop...
Published on: November 23, 2024 | Source:Black Friday gaming deals 2024: The best sales on video games, consoles, accessories and more
Black Friday is usually a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear on the cheap, and this year is no exception. While the "holiday" itself is still a few days away, several retailers have already kicked off their official holiday sales, so many of the season's better gaming deals are available now. If you’re looking to add a few games to your backlog, pick up a new console or upgrade your desktop with new...
Published on: November 23, 2024 | Source:Black Friday TV deals for 2024: Save on sets from Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and more
Black Friday is still a few days away, but several retailers have already kicked off their official holiday sales. That means many of the TV sales we expect to see post-Thanksgiving are already available. If you’re looking to refresh your living room, we’ve scoured through reviews and checked price histories to find the Black Friday TV deals that are genuinely decent. You can find our favorites below, which include...
Published on: November 23, 2024 | Source:This new wireless carrier promises ultra-secure mobile phone service
This mobile provider service was available only to government users but has since expanded. If you fall into these categories, you may be eligible today, but the service will expand to the general public soon, too.
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms
Article URL: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-opens-investigation-possible-conspiracy-advertising-companies-boycott Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217095 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Judge rules SiriusXM’s annoying cancellation process is illegal
Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXM’s “long and burdensome” cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription. The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued SiriusXM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Black Friday TV deals for 2024: Save on sets from LG, Samsung, Sony and more
Black Friday is technically a week away, but many of the TV deals we expect to see on the day itself are already available. If you’re looking to buy a new set, we’ve scoured through reviews and checked price histories to find the Black Friday TV deals that are genuinely worth your attention. Right now, those include budget models and high-end OLEDs from the likes of Samsung, LG, Hisense, Sony and TCL. If you're already...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:The best Black Friday SSD deals from Samsung, WD, Crucial and others
While Black Friday itself may be a week away, many retailers have already kicked off their official holiday sales. That means it’s a better time than usual to be in the market for new storage gear. If you have a PC, tablet, gaming handheld or any other device in need of a boost, we’ve rounded up the best Black Friday SSD and storage deals we could find below. Before you dive in, keep in mind that storage prices have...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Amazon Black Friday Lego deals include up to 29 percent off Star Wars, Super Mario sets
We’re big Lego fans here at Engadget, so it’s not difficult for us to understand why the building block sets are some of the first items to sell out during the holiday shopping season. Kids and adults alike seek out Lego sets all year round, and they make particularly good gifts. Whether you know your recipient loves Star Wars or Super Mario, or they don’t have a fan-favorite franchise and just love building stuff,...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Snap calls New Mexico's child safety complaint a 'sensationalist lawsuit'
Snap has accused New Mexico's attorney general of intentionally looking for adult users seeking sexually explicit content in order to make its app seem unsafe in a filing asking the court to dismiss the state's lawsuit. In the document shared by The Verge, the company questioned the veracity of the state's allegations. The attorney general's office said that while it was using a decoy account supposed to be owned by a...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:The best iPhones in 2024: Apple smartphones tested, reviewed and ranked
Looking for the latest iPhone, or a good deal on a refurbished handset? Our expert has assessed and rated the current crop of Apple smartphonesThe best iPhone may be the one you already own. There is generally no need to buy a fresh phone just because new models have been released, as hardware updates are broadly iterative, adding small bits to an already accomplished package. But if you do want a replacement handset,...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: It’s Black Friday!
The Black Friday seaso is finally upon us, willing us to purchase some much-needed tech with some degree of a discount. Our Black Friday hub has been collecting the best deals available, so you can save a bundle in the run-up to the holidays. And while there have been some tasty deals in the last few days, the real blockbusters have now dropped. That includes $75 off the PlayStation 5 Slim, with a decent chunk sliced...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:The best VR headsets for 2024
If you’ve ever wanted to dive into a whole new world without leaving your living room, a VR headset could be your next big investment. These headsets aren’t just for gaming — although VR gaming is a blast. They can also transport you to virtual worlds for exploring impressive environments, immersive workouts or even social gatherings. Whether you’re craving an intense fitness session or a relaxing virtual tour through...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) to determine whether the trade group’s members conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms.” While the press release doesn’t name social media platforms by name, one of them is likely Elon Musk’s X, which filed […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Samsung QN90D 98-inch review: solid and classy, but worth the price tag?
Samsung's QN90D TV series is generally excellent, but it falls apart at 98 inches
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:Snap says New Mexico intentionally friended alleged child predators, then blamed the company
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap says the basis of a scathing lawsuit suggesting it systematically recommends teens’ accounts to child predators is backwards — the company is now accusing the New Mexico attorney general of intentionally seeking out such accounts before recommendations were made. The company says the AG’s case is based on “gross misrepresentations” and cherry picks from Snap’s internal...
Published on: November 22, 2024 | Source:ChatGPT: Two Years Later
Tracing the impact of the generative AI revolutionTracing the impact of the generative AI revolution (Photo by vackground.com on Unsplash).Happy birthday, Mr.ChatbotThis November 30 marks the second anniversary of ChatGPT’s launch, an event that sent shockwaves through technology, society, and the economy. The space opened by this milestone has not always made it easy—or perhaps even possible—to separate reality from...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:PHP 8.4 released with property hooks, better performance
PHP 8.4 marks a significant milestone for the language, introducing property hooks which reduces boilerplate code, asymmetric visibility, and an updated DOM API. Alongside these, the update delivers performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.Read Entire Article
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Automakers plead with Trump: don’t kill the EV tax credit
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The auto industry is sending an urgent message to President-elect Donald Trump: spare the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. In a November 14th letter to Trump and his transition team, the auto industry’s main lobbying group urges the new administration to preserve incentives for EV buyers and manufacturers that were enacted under President Joe Biden, arguing these policies keep the US...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Bluesky reacts to Matt Gaetz withdrawal as Trumps attorney general nominee
Bluesky finally has enough people to really, truly react to big news. Matt Gaetz dropping out of the AG nomination was one of its first big moments.
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:LangChain’s Parent Document Retriever — Revisited
LangChain’s Parent Document Retriever—RevisitedEnhance retrieval with context using your vector databaseonlyTL;DR—We achieve the same functionality as LangChains’ Parent Document Retriever (link) by utilizing metadata queries. You can explore the codehere.Introduction toRAGRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is currently one of the hottest topics in the world of LLM and AI applications.In short, RAG is a technique for...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Graph Neural Networks: Fraud Detection and Protein Function Prediction
Understanding AI applications in bio for machine learning engineersPhoto by Conny Schneider onUnsplashWhat do a network of financial transactions and a protein structure have in common? They’re both poorly modeled in Euclidean (x, y) space and require encoding complex, large, and heterogeneous graphs to trulygrok.Left: image in Euclidean Space. Right: graph in non-Euclidean space. From Graph neural networks: A review...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Cluster While Predict: Iterative Methods for Regression and Classification
Predictive and prescriptive analytics to bridge the gap between segmentation and prediction for real-world applicationsPhoto by NASA Hubble Space Telescope onUnsplashIntroduction:In many real-world machine learning tasks, the population being studied is often diverse and heterogeneous. This variability presents unique challenges, particularly in regression and classification tasks where a single, generalized model may...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Building a Vision Inspection CNN for an Industrial Application
A step-by-step approach usingPyTorchIn this article, we develop and code a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for a vision inspection classification task in the automotive electronics industry. Along the way, we study the concept and math of convolutional layers in depth, and we examine what CNNs actually see and which parts of the image lead them to their decisions.Table ofContentPart 1: Conceptual backgroundPart 2:...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Black Friday deals slash $100 off the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones
There are already a bunch of Black Friday deals to check out, but if you're on the lookout for a great set of wireless headphones for yourself or a loved one, here's one that's absolutely worth your attention. Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones have dropped to $298. That's a $102 discount. This isn't quite the lowest price we've seen for the over-ear XM5s. They dropped to $280 at one point earlier this year. However, the...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Australia introduces a bill that would ban children under 16 from social media
Australia’s majority party has introduced a bill in Parliament that would ban children under 16 from social media. The legislation, which would put the onus on social platforms rather than children or parents, could fine infringing companies up to AUD$49.5 million ($32.2 million). The Labor Party’s bill would apply to (among others) Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and X. It would require platforms to cordon off and destroy...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Teach mode, Rabbit's tool for automating R1 tasks, is now available to all users
When the Rabbit R1 arrived earlier this year, it was an unfinished product. Engadget’s own Devindra Hardawar called it “a toy that fails at almost everything.” Most of the features Rabbit promised, including its signature “large action model” (LAM), were either missing at launch or didn’t work as promised. Now, after more 20 software updates since the spring, Rabbit is releasing its most substantial update yet....
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:The best Black Friday gaming deals on video games, consoles, accessories and more
Black Friday is usually a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear at a discount, and this year is no exception. While the big day itself isn’t for another week, several retailers have already kicked off their official holiday sales, so many of the better gaming deals we’re likely to see are available today. If you’re looking to pad out your backlog, pick up a new console or refresh your desktop with new...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:Explaining LLMs for RAG and Summarization
A fast and low-resource method using similarity-based attributionInformation flow between an input document and its summary as computed by the proposed explainability method. (image created byauthor)TL;DRExplaining LLMs is very slow and resource-intensive.This article proposes a task-specific explanation technique or RAG Q&A and Summarization.The approach is model agnostic and is similarity-based.The approach is...
Published on: November 21, 2024 | Source:BTC ETF options launch, Russia-US tensions grow, ZEREBRO hits $470M
BTC hits $92k, ‘$100k no longer a dream’. Blackrock BTC ETF options will launch today. MicroStrategy buys $4.6bn BTC, plans $1.75bn more. Binance creates stablecoin-like product at 20% APY. GS looking to spin out digital assets tech platform. California rules LIDO DAO is a General Partnership. Trump Media in talks to buy crypto exchange Bakkt. Trump meets with Coinbase CEO Armstrong. SOL hits highest ever weekly...
Published on: November 19, 2024 | Source:AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available
AWS Lambda SnapStart boosts Python and .NET functions' startup times to sub-second levels, often with minimal code changes, enabling highly responsive and scalable serverless apps.
Published on: November 18, 2024 | Source:
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Build and modify apps using natural language with AWS App Studio, now generally available
Unleash your inner developer with AWS App Studio, the generative AI-powered application builder. Turn your idea into fully-fledged, intelligent, custom, secure, and scalable software in minutes.
Published on: November 18, 2024 | Source:
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GM offers free nighttime charging to Chevy EV owners in Texas
Image: Reliant General Motors is teaming up with Reliant Energy to offer free nighttime charging to some Chevy electric vehicle owners in Texas. Chevy owners who enroll in Reliant’s EV charging plan will receive free nighttime charging through monthly bill credits that offset charges incurred between 11PM. and 6AM, the companies said. Customers must also designate an EV to receive the charging credit through GM Energy’...
Published on: November 13, 2024 | Source:Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta must face the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit that accuses the company of dominating the social media industry through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, a DC District Court Judge ruled on Wednesday. The FTC filed a lawsuit against Meta in 2020, alleging the company bought up rivals — Instagram and WhatsApp — in an attempt to stifle competition. Judge...
Published on: November 13, 2024 | Source: