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The Titan Submersible Disaster Hearings Paint a Damning Picture
One week into the US Coast Guard’s OceanGate hearings, witnesses have shed new light on key aspects of the company’s troubles leading up to the fateful implosion. Read more
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Welcome to the Era of ‘Deep Doubt’
AI has scrambled our ability to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic. But there are tools and techniques to help stay grounded in truth. Read more
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The Best iPhone 16 Cases and Accessories (2024), Tested and Reviewed
I’ve tested more than 70 cases for Apple’s iPhone 16 range. These are the best cases, along with a few MagSafe accessories. Read more
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Meet Luis Ceze, a 2024 BigDATA Wire Person to Watch
Luis Ceze is many things: He’s the CEO and co-founder of OctoAI, an Lazowska Endowed Professor at University of Washington, a co-founder of the Apache TVM project, and also a 2024 BigDATA Wire Person to Watch. We recently caught up with Ceze to ask him a few questions about his many endeavors. Here is what… Read more
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The best robot mops for 2024: Expert tested and reviewed
I tested the best robot mops from iRobot, Roborock, Dreame, and more, so you can finally ditch the mop and bucket. Read more
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EU rules stifle AI innovation, claims Meta letter
The European Union risks becoming an artificial intelligence backwater thanks to a “fragmented and unpredictable” regulatory environment that is damaging the technology’s development. That’s according to a blunt open letter and newspaper advertisement signed by 49 executives, researchers and industry organizations, notably including the CEOs of SAP, Spotify, and Ericsson. But it is the appearance… Read more
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ZDNET’s pick for the best robot vacuum and mop is $300 off for a limited time
The Dreame X40 Ultra is a high-end robot vacuum that’s priced for the stars. But is it worth its hefty price tag? At $300 off, that’s a definite yes. Read more
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The Shade Room Founder Is Ready to Dial Down the Shade
Angie Nwandu dishes on Diddy, Donald Trump, the responsibility of the Black press, and what it takes to build a lasting media empire. Read more
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MagpieLM-4B-Chat-v0.1 and MagpieLM-8B-Chat-v0.1 Released: Groundbreaking Open-Source Small Language Models for AI Alignment and Research
The University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) have recently made a significant contribution to the AI research community by releasing their cutting-edge language models: MagpieLM-4B-Chat-v0.1 and MagpieLM-8B-Chat-v0.1. Part of the larger MagpieLM project, these models are specifically designed to address the rising need for aligned language models that can perform advanced… Read more
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LinkedIn is training AI with your personal data. Here’s how to stop it
Your information and how you interact with LinkedIn is helping to train AI. If you don’t want that to happen, you can opt out and check what it already knows. Read more