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Hue accidentally leaks a new video doorbell
The video doorbell would join others in Hue’s lineup, like this indoor / outdoor camera. An update to the Philips Hue app this week appears to have leaked a new Hue Secure video doorbell, reports Hueblog. The unannounced product shows up in a section offering instructions for adding devices that you have no QR code…
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The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk
It is misleading to call AI open source when no one can look at, experiment with and understand each element that went into creating it.Read More
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OpenAI Introduced Advanced Audio Models ‘gpt-4o-mini-tts’, ‘gpt-4o-transcribe’, and ‘gpt-4o-mini-transcribe’: Enhancing Real-Time Speech Synthesis and Transcription Capabilities for Developers
The accelerating growth of voice interactions in the digital space has created increasingly high user expectations for effortless, natural-sounding audio experiences. Conventional speech synthesis and transcription technologies are usually beset by latency, unnaturalness, and insufficient real-time processing, making them unsuitable for realistic, user-centric applications. In response to these essential shortcomings, OpenAI has launched a collection…
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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path…
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Microsoft AI Releases RD-Agent: An AI-Driven Tool for Performing R&D with LLM-based Agents
Research and development (R&D) is crucial in driving productivity, particularly in the AI era. However, conventional automation methods in R&D often lack the intelligence to handle complex research challenges and innovation-driven tasks, making them less effective than human experts. Conversely, researchers leverage deep domain knowledge to generate ideas, test hypotheses, and refine processes through iterative…
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SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant
SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge. That expansion includes The SwitchBot Hub 3 that was first revealed in a filing with the Connectivity Standards Alliance last week. Many of these integrations are coming…
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Photo Mode is my new gaming obsession
Infinity Nikki and Assassinâs Creed Shadows have become my twin obsessions for their meticulously detailed environments, textures, and weather. With open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, I continue to be agog at how clothing textures are rendered with such detail and fidelity that by mere sight, I know exactly what a piece of fabric will feel…
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7 cool indie games from GDC 2025
My Arms Are Longer Now. The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering that brings thousands of game developers to San Francisco, has just wrapped up. While most of the event is about networking and interesting talks about game design and technology, there were also a bunch of unreleased indie games that we got to check…
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Fujifilm GFX100RF review: one sensor, nine cameras
When Apple introduced the iPhone 15 Pro, Greg Joswiak, the companyâs senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the deviceâs three rear cameras would give consumers âthe equivalent of seven camera lenses in their pocket.â We could spend multiple podcasts debating the technical validity of that statement, but what Joswiak was trying to imply was…
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The Art of the Perfect Nap
Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy. A sleep researcher explains how to get it right.