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Saturday April 12, 2025. 04:00 PM
Terrible color accuracy ruins what is an otherwise great budget Windows laptop.
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The Smart Oven Air Fryer Compact has truly intelligent presets, and a lot of functionality in a wee device. But I wonder about the airflow.
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In case you missed it, Season 7 of Black Mirror just hit Netflix. Although the last couple seasons have contained far more misses than hits for me (in my opinion, the Season 3 episode 'Shut Up and Dance' is the peak of the series as a whole, and it's almost ten years old!),...
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The next time you cook pasta, don't bother with a kitchen timer, just hit play on one of these playlists—each one is precisely timed to match the cook time of a particular variety of pasta. The 'Playlist Timer' tool was created by Publicis Italy and is a collaboration...
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I have to admit, as an academic who is frequently frustrated by predatory journals as well as by the inability to extricate myself from some journal and conference mailing lists, I thoroughly resonate with the paper 'Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List,' which I can only...
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No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks Analysis Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 - slightly surpassing Japan's total consumption - with AI named as the biggest driver.…
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I've watched this video countless times now, and it still hasn't stopped making me laugh. When two dudes at a gas station try to read a moving digital sign, they first read the words 'cold bee' out loud. One of the guys says 'cold bee!? — Read the rest The post Watch two...
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Abstract of a paper on NBER: There is much disagreement about the extent to which financial incentives motivate study participants. We elicit preferences for being paid for completing a survey, including a one-in-twenty chance of winning a $100 electronic gift card, a...
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If you don’t, your flight won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.
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We've all heard of sugar plums, but what are they? I realized I've never actually eaten a sugar plum, and I can't imagine what it is. Are sugar plums an extra-sweet type of plum?  This video, What Are Sugar Plums?, will answer all of your sugar plum related questions. — Read...
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Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' The rise of LLM-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software - and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.…
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Overcompensating, Reacher, and Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
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Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants' social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.
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These sweats strike the perfect balance between comfort and looks.
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Plus: Nothing teases a new CMF smartphone, Specialized’s new mountain ebike starts at $8,000, and Teenage Engineering's big software update for its sampler.
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A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids Have you ever wanted to explore a blocky low-resolution version of the UK? Well, you're in luck, because the Ordnance Survey has created a Minecraft representation of it, claimed to be as realistic as anything ever can be in ...
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The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scrapped.
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Imagine you had to finish every sentence in every book ever written -- with just your best guess of the next word. That’s how large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 start learning.  LLMs use self-supervised learning, meaning they don’t need someone to label or explain...
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Facebook Marketplace has emerged as the dominant feature within the social media platform, amassing 1.2 billion monthly active buyers by 2023 and overtaking eBay as a peer-to-peer selling platform. According to recent data, approximately 16 percent of Facebook's monthly...
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The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
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