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L’Oreal Professionnel AirLight Pro Review: Faster, Lighter, and Repairable
L’Oréal’s first professional hair dryer combines infrared light, wind, and heat to drastically reduce your drying time.
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The Top 10 Biomedical Stories of 2024
In 2024, biomedical technology really got to our heads—or more specifically, our eyes and brains. Some of Spectrum’s most popular articles this year were about technology assisting our vision, with stories of retinal implants and smart contact lenses drawing your eye. You dug deep into non-invasive tech to hasten sleep and preserve brain function for…
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How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chrome
Just because you use Chrome doesn’t mean you have to use Google. Learn how to invite Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or even ChatGPT into your omnibox.
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9 Best French Presses (2024): Plastic, Glass, Stainless Steel, Travel
The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
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The Universe Is Teeming With Complex Organic Molecules
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.
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Cloud Gaming on the PlayStation Portal Isn’t the Exciting Step Forward We’d Hoped for
A software update was supposed to free up the PS Portal from its reliance on the PS5 and add a world of streamable games to its appeal. In practice, it does nothing of the sort.
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The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?
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This AI Paper from Microsoft and Oxford Introduce Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks
Computer vision models have made significant strides in solving individual tasks such as object detection, segmentation, and classification. Complex real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, security and surveillance, and healthcare and medical Imaging require multiple vision tasks. However, each task has its own model architecture and requirements, making efficient management within a unified framework a…
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OpenAI Researchers Propose Comprehensive Set of Practices for Enhancing Safety, Accountability, and Efficiency in Agentic AI Systems
Agentic AI systems are fundamentally reshaping how tasks are automated, and goals are achieved in various domains. These systems are distinct from conventional AI tools in that they can adaptively pursue complex goals over extended periods with minimal human supervision. Their functionality extends to tasks requiring reasoning, such as managing logistics, developing software, or even…
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Meet LOTUS 1.0.0: An Advanced Open Source Query Engine with a DataFrame API and Semantic Operators
Modern data programming involves working with large-scale datasets, both structured and unstructured, to derive actionable insights. Traditional data processing tools often struggle with the demands of advanced analytics, particularly when tasks extend beyond simple queries to include semantic understanding, ranking, and clustering. While systems like Pandas or SQL-based tools handle relational data well, they face…