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If you search up Hawaii’s Keāhole Point on Google Maps, center it on your screen, and then zoom out until you can see the edges of the globe, one thing will become abundantly clear: The Pacific Ocean is very, very big. In a few months, on this volcanic headland on Hawaii’s Big Island, marine-tech startup… Read more

Recent advancements in training large multimodal models have been driven by efforts to eliminate modeling constraints and unify architectures across domains. Despite these strides, many existing models still rely on separately trained components such as modality-specific encoders and decoders. In a new paper JetFormer: An Autoregressive Generative Model of Raw Images and Text, a Google… Read more

This year, IEEE Spectrum readers had a keen interest in all things software: What’s going on in the tumultuous world of open-source, why the sheer size of code is causing security vulnerabilities, and how we need to take seriously the energy costs of inefficient code. The ever-growing presence of artificial intelligence also made itself known… Read more

Samsung’s celebrated flagship soundbar does just enough to beat out the rest of its Dolby Atmos competitors. Read more

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time. Read more

Villains were everywhere and more relatable than ever. Across pop culture, social media, and IRL, the phenomenon went full-on main character. Read more

The plant-based-meat company’s CEO, Ethan Brown, credits a series of attack ads with prompting a potentially sector-saving change of plan. Read more

Suno will use its AI skills to create a song based on your description of a specific genre and topic. Read more

Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world. Read more

From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever. Read more