Author: Hunter

Meta is ramping up efforts to rid Facebook of spammy content, the company announced on Thursday. It’s cracking down on accounts that try to “game” the Facebook algorithm with lengthy posts and numerous hashtags. The platform is also taking action against accounts that create posts with captions completely unrelated to an image. Now, if Meta… Read more

Switch 2 preorders are sold out online everywhere. But some people have managed to snag one using once conventional but now antiquated means: going to GameStop and preordering one in store.  In addition to offering online preorders for the Switch 2, its Mario Kart World bundle, and the various Switch 2 accessories, GameStop also allowed… Read more

Lip-Bu Tan, the new CEO of Intel, sent out a blunt message to employees saying the company has to reorganize to be more efficient.Read More Read more

Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th. But he didn’t wait until the call to announce major changes at Intel, nor did he begin his reign by laying off 20 percent of the company’s employees,… Read more

Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 will cost $64.99, according to the controller’s listing on the company’s website. The controller releases on June 5th, the same day as the Switch 2, but Nintendo will be making it available to order ahead of that date. Initially, the controller will be available to buy from May… Read more

Companies around the globe are developing artificial intelligence (AI) applications with the goal of improving productivity, enhancing customer satisfaction, and boosting profitability. In many cases, adopting AI agents will mean replacing human workers for some tasks. But that raises a question: Should AI be given worker protections and rights? At least one major AI company… Read more

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