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Apple’s latest AirPods have dropped below $100 for the first time
The AirPods 4 offer more bass than their predecessor and impressively clear voice call quality. If you missed out on the steep AirPods discounts we saw during Black Friday, now is your chance. Right now, the second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale at Walmart, Best Buy, and Target starting at $169 ($81 off), which is just…
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Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget
In the first two weeks of Donald Trumpâs presidency, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have reportedly gained access to core parts of the American governmentâs payment systems, including systems that affect Social Security and Medicare benefits â as federal workers and government officials struggle to respond. DOGE, an unofficial âdepartmentâ which Trump…
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Audi will try to make its model names make more sense
Audi is launching a new global nomenclature system for its vehicles to more clearly represent a vehicle’s type, size, shape, and powertrain. The updated system will still begin with letters like A for “low-floor” vehicles or Q for “high-floor” ones. That will be followed by numbers 1 through 8 that help represent the size or…
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Adaptive Charging could soon extend the lifespan of your Pixel Watch
Adaptive Charging might soon prevent the Pixel Watch from overcharging. Google could soon bring its Adaptive Charging battery protection feature from its Pixel phones to the Pixel Watch line. The feature is designed to preserve battery health by preventing overcharging, and hinges on its ability to predict your charging schedule. Android Authority spotted code strings…
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ARM: Enhancing Open-Domain Question Answering with Structured Retrieval and Efficient Data Alignment
Answering open-domain questions in real-world scenarios is challenging, as relevant information is often scattered across diverse sources, including text, databases, and images. While LLMs can break down complex queries into simpler steps to improve retrieval, they usually fail to account for how data is structured, leading to suboptimal results. Agentic RAG introduces iterative retrieval, refining…
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This AI Paper from Meta Introduces Diverse Preference Optimization (DivPO): A Novel Optimization Method for Enhancing Diversity in Large Language Models
Large-scale language models (LLMs) have advanced the field of artificial intelligence as they are used in many applications. Although they can almost perfectly simulate human language, they tend to lose in terms of response diversity. This limitation is particularly problematic in tasks requiring creativity, such as synthetic data generation and storytelling, where diverse outputs are…
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The ‘Pokémon TCG Pocket’ Trading System Is So Bad Players Are Revolting
The Pokémon Company International says it’s now “actively investigating” ways to improve the feature after players threatened to cancel their subscriptions.
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Data brokers can keep selling your social security number, says new CFPB chief
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to “to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,” reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told…
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Pronouns Are Being Forcibly Removed From Government Email Signatures
WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.
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EcoFlow says subscriptions aren’t required for advanced features… yet
EcoFlow has confirmed new advanced features coming to its PowerStream solar system are currently being tested by some users. | Image: EcoFlow EcoFlow has confirmed that it’s currently testing new advanced features for its PowerStream Balcony Solar System that were made available to a small group of testers “on a paid basis.” After other EcoFlow…