Author: Hunter

Apple’s more personalized Siri features need a little more time in the oven. Company spokesperson Jacqueline Roy gave this statement to Daring Fireball today announcing the delay: Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features… Read more

Rather than buy bitcoin directly, Donald Trump’s plan calls for holding the US government’s current bitcoin assets in reserve—and creates a separate stockpile for other crypto coins. Read more

Apple’s miniature desktop machine remains the the best value in Apple’s entire Mac lineup. Apple might have just updated the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, but if all you need is a good daily driver, they’re completely overkill. The M4-powered Mac Mini is probably the better option in most instances, especially… Read more

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Large language models have made significant strides in understanding and generating human-like text. Yet, when it comes to complex reasoning tasks—especially those that require multi-step calculations or logical analysis—they often struggle. Traditional chain-of-thought (CoT) approaches help by breaking down problems into intermediate steps, but they rely heavily on the model’s internal reasoning. This internal dependency… Read more

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG,… Read more

To tackle data-retrieval-based hallucinations in non-diagnostic use cases, Mayo Clinic has applied CURE reverse RAG paired with vector databases.Read More Read more

Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that’s currently on Netflix won’t look how you remember it did when it aired. And not in a good way. The “HD” remaster of the 1980s sitcom being streamed is a nightmarish mess of distorted faces, garbled text, and misshapen backgrounds. People started spotting… Read more

BOCA CHICA BEACH, TEXAS – MARCH 06: SpaceX Starship Flight 8 prepares for takeoff from Orbital Launch Pad A at Boca Chica beach on March 06, 2025 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The SpaceX Starship Flight 8 test launched and successfully caught its booster upon descent. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) | Screenshot: SpaceX Stop… Read more

The Nintendo Switch 2 is already official, but there’s a lot we still don’t know — like, will Nintendo’s new handheld support the NFC-equipped Amiibo figurines that can wirelessly unlock content in games? Today, it seems likely they will, because filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reveal the console will support NFC. They even… Read more