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Keeping my house clean can feel like an impossible task with a litter-kicking-happy cat and a two-year-old on a mission to throw everything, whether it’s Cheerios or pizza, onto the floor. One of the things that has made it easier, though, is my Shark handheld vacuum. The Shark UltraCyclone Pet Pro Plus is one of…
Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to…
I went to CES with Engadget for the first time this year and, among the robots, laptops, TVs and more robots, the most exciting products I saw were ones trying to make our homes more eco-friendly in the most low-effort ways possible. I saw an induction stove, a window-mounted heat pump, a battery back-up system…
Künstliche Intelligenz Microsofts soll Menschen beim Computerspielen unterstützen. “Neue Spieler, wie ich, können von Computerspielen eingeschüchtert werden”, sagt Microsofts Fatima Kardar. Sie hat verschiedene Spiele ausprobiert, “aber sie schnell verworfen, weil das zu nichts führt”, gesteht die Managerin im Xbox Podcast. Ihr Lösungsansatz sind nicht etwa bessere Spieldesigns, sondern Künstliche Intelligenz: der “Copilot for Gaming”….
The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the agency. In a Tuesday meeting, United States DOGE Service administrator Amy Gleason told staff that Musk-affiliated engineers and some legacy USDS workers would be headed to SSA to improve “identity proofing,” say sources who were…
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement — wants to start “foodome” sequencing. “We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which means test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the American diet based on stuff…
WhatsApp never waits long between updates and this time it's reportedly changing how replies look. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently working on a feature that would put all replies to the same message in one thread. A look at it appeared in an Android update available through the Google Play Beta Program. Right now,…
Keine freie Sicht: Partielle Mondfinsternis über Deutschland am Freitagmorgen Schaulustige können am Freitag am Morgenhimmel eine partielle Mondfinsternis beobachten – allerdings nur, wenn das Wetter mitspielt. Eine totale Phase der Finsternis werde über dem deutschsprachigen Raum nicht zu sehen sein, sagte der Vorsitzende der Vereinigung der Sternfreunde mit Sitz im südhessischen Bensheim, Uwe Pilz, der…
This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream.
AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text…
