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This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing
Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. After growing up in Plainfield, N.J., Don joined the U.S. Navy during World War II as an 18-year-old. He served aboard the…
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The Eero Outdoor 7 Brings Wi-Fi to the Backyard
Amazon’s Eero unveils the weatherproof Outdoor 7 to extend Wi-Fi coverage across your property.
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Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
After eight months, one of the US’s most prominent crypto-crime investigators may finally be coming home.
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The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug
Novo Nordisk has asked the FDA to block production of compounded copies of Ozempic, arguing that it’s too difficult to do safely. It’s the latest escalation in a brewing war between pharmaceutical companies and compounders.
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LLMs as Code Architects: Meta’s New Approach to Precise Code Transformations
Tools designed for rewriting, refactoring, and optimizing code should prioritize both speed and accuracy. Large language models (LLMs), however, often lack these critical attributes. Despite these limitations, there remains significant potential for leveraging LLMs to enhance code quality. In a new paper Don’t Transform the Code, Code the Transforms: Towards Precise Code Rewriting using LLMs,…
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Multi-Scale Neural Audio Codec (SNAC): An Wxtension of Residual Vector Quantization that Uses Quantizers Operating at Multiple Temporal Resolutions
Neural audio compression has emerged as a critical challenge in digital signal processing, particularly in achieving efficient audio representation while preserving quality. Traditional audio codecs, despite their widespread use, face limitations in achieving lower bitrates without compromising audio fidelity. While recent neural compression methods have demonstrated superior performance in reducing bitrates, they encounter significant challenges…
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What do jumping spiders find sexy? How DIY tech is offering insights into the animal mind.
In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth College had to get creative. Crabs are always looking to move into a bigger, better shell, but having really nice digs also comes with risks. Sometimes crabs gang up to pull an inhabitant out of an especially desirable shell. If…
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Online Talk About ‘Civil War’ Could Inspire Real-World Violence, DHS Warns Cops
The agency also cautioned that it’s unable to get a grasp on the full scale of the threat, due to extremists increasingly using encrypted chat tools.
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Loop Switch 2 Review: Volume-Adjustable Earplugs
These earplugs let you fine-tune your noise reduction—within reason.
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Using Artificial Intelligence Is Easier Than You Think
WIRED’s AI Unlocked newsletter about using chatbots and other generative AI tools is back for a second season. We’ve incorporated reader feedback and answered your burning questions.