Author: Hunter

Bowers & Wilkins’ new PX7 S3 are slimmer than the S2e, and include a smaller carrying case. | Image: Bowers & Wilkins We called Bowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2e the “best-sounding wireless headphones” in our  noise-canceling headphones buyer’s guide, but the company’s latest could be a new contender for that title. Bowers & Wilkins says… Read more

Supabase has announced a $200 million Series D funding round led by Accel, with participation from Coatue, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and longtime investor Felicis. The post-money valuation for Supabase is reported to be around the $2 billion mark, as reported by Fortune.  The funding comes seven months after a $80 million round led by… Read more

In a surprise move, President Trump’s transportation department has decided to keep the Biden-era rule requiring automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. But they’re making a few changes that are likely to have a big impact on one company. In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued… Read more

In recent years, contrastive language-image models such as CLIP have established themselves as a default choice for learning vision representations, particularly in multimodal applications like Visual Question Answering (VQA) and document understanding. These models leverage large-scale image-text pairs to incorporate semantic grounding via language supervision. However, this reliance on text introduces both conceptual and practical… Read more

The subtitles are available with newer Netflix originals, like season 5 of You. Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Before this change, Netflix offered Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC), which show spoken dialogue along with speaker names and descriptions of sounds, such as “[phone… Read more

Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta’s in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some employees involved in the company’s hardware efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Specific titles impacted by… Read more

At 16 ounces, the Ember Tumbler is the biggest smart mug Ember sells. Tired of your coffee going cold halfway through the cup? Ember’s smart mugs are designed specifically to solve that problem, and right now the black Ember Tumbler is on sale for half off. Regularly $199.95, you can buy the travel-friendly smart mug… Read more

Kia is the latest automaker to be granted Tesla Supercharger access, allowing owners of the company’s EVs to connect to over 21,500 stalls across North America. Kia EVs were originally supposed to get access to Superchargers in January, but it was delayed until March, and now it has finally gone through. The news comes as… Read more

The summer of video game releases is starting to heat up. Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake and Control, announced that its first multiplayer title FBC: Firebreak will launch on June 17th. It’ll be available on PC (both Steam and the Epic Game Store), the PS5, and Xbox. It’ll also be available on subscription… Read more

Threads on the web has a new address. Now, you can access the Meta-owned network by heading to Threads.com instead of Threads.net. The move will likely make it easier for users to find the website, as traffic to an unrelated messaging app startup, “Threads.com,” spiked following the platform’s launch. Meta finally acquired the “Threads.com” domain… Read more