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More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US. The survey found having a conspiracy mentality was the main factor influencing such beliefs,...

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Microsoft pushed out an update that seemed to include a wee mistake, the creation of a blank C:\Inetpub folder on all machines, even those without Internet Information Services (IIS) installed.  If you…

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A media outlet has reportedly received confirmation from Nvidia's board partners that the upcoming RTX 5050 will receive GDDR6 memory rather than GDDR7.

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AI is revolutionizing the way nearly every industry operates. It’s making us more efficient, more productive, and – when implemented correctly – better at our jobs overall. But as our reliance on this novel technology increases rapidly, we have...

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Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand, the F-TAC Hand, which integrates high-resolution tactile sensing across an unprecedented 70% of its surface area, allowing for human-like adaptive grasping. This pioneering development, published in Nature Machine Intelligence today, represents a significant...

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Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.

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Home security is always easier when you can set up a device and forget about it, right? Well, this Tapo SolarCam C403 is exactly like that and it’s only $40 right now on Amazon. Usually available for $60, you...

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The best way to keep your desk tidy is to have as little of it occupied by devices and peripherals. So, instead of a massive PC tower or a chunky laptop, why not opt for a mini PC? One...

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Remember the plan for HBO Max and Discovery to mix their content together into an all-new streaming called “Max”? Well, forget all that.  Not even a month after declaring that Max would soon be HBO Max again, parent company...

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Looking for a decent laptop under $500? Yeah, it’s kind of a mess out there. One quick search and you’re drowning in options–most of them pretty meh. The key is knowing what actually matters. Shoot for a 1080p screen...

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Learn how Google Research’s team worked with collaborators at HHMI Janelia and Harvard University to build a dataset that tracks both the neural activity and nanoscale s…

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YouTube has a lot of ads. So many, in fact, that you might wonder if owner Google is using the prevalence and annoyance of advertising to not-so-subtly get people paying for YouTube Premium. Lots of users block those ads—and...

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In this series of posts, you will learn how to build intelligent AI voice agents using Pipecat, an open-source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI agents, with foundation models on Amazon Bedrock. It includes high-level reference architectures, best...

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In this post, we explore the implementation details of a web application that uses the browser’s Web Audio API and Amazon Transcribe streaming to enable real-time dual-channel transcription. By using the combination of AudioContext, ChannelMergerNode, and AudioWorklet, we were...

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