Virtual reality excels at engaging sight and sound, while developers continue making progress with touch. Even smell is beginning to play a role—for better or worse. That leaves one final sense: taste. Whether or not people truly want to experience flavors in virtual worlds, a new device is now tackling this uncharted territory. Taste is […]
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The Data We Share From Fitbit steps to Facebook likes, we spill data daily. Every search, click, and purchase feeds into vast databases. Companies like Acxiom build detailed consumer profiles for targeted advertising, sometimes knowing more about your habits than you realize. Social media platforms, streaming services, and online retailers track user behavior to refine
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With just a few words, AI models can generate stories, images, or even short films. However, Weber Wong argues that these tools are designed by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative—meaning they don’t truly serve professional artists. Wong aims to change that with Flora, a startup he founded and now leads as CEO. A
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The Scalability Challenge Scalability is a critical factor in the success of tech giants. It refers to a system’s ability to handle increasing amounts of work efficiently without compromising performance or stability. Twitter provides a prime example. In its early days, the platform had to scale from handling 12,000 tweets per second to millions of
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The Large Hadron Collider’s Data Challenge CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, generates approximately 30 petabytes of data annually by capturing particle collisions occurring at near-light speeds. This volume of information is equivalent to around 600 million filing cabinets filled with documents, making it impossible for a single
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Apple quietly launched its latest budget smartphone, the $599 iPhone 16e, with no major event—just a tweet from CEO Tim Cook days before a press release announcement. Unlike past unveilings, there were no in-person or online showcases, nor a media frenzy to capture images of the device. The iPhone 16e isn’t a groundbreaking release but
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang remains optimistic about the company’s future, reaffirming that DeepSeek won’t affect sales during Wednesday’s earnings call. DeepSeek R1 Sparks Stock Dip, But Huang Sees Growing Demand for Compute Last month, speculation that DeepSeek’s R1 model required significantly fewer chips for training led to a record drop in Nvidia’s stock price. However,
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Inception, a newly launched company based in Palo Alto and founded by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed an innovative AI model leveraging diffusion technology. The company refers to it as a diffusion-based large language model (DLM). Currently, generative AI models fall into two primary categories: large language models (LLMs) and
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With the newly announced Alexa+ experience, Amazon’s smart assistant can now navigate movies on Prime Video for users. Through its integration with Prime Video and Fire TV, Alexa+ enables seamless scene-jumping without the need for manual fast-forwarding. Alexa+ Demonstrates Seamless Movie Navigation At a press event in New York, Amazon showcased the new feature by
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At a New York event on Wednesday, Amazon introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its AI assistant powered by generative AI. Amazon’s devices and services chief, Panos Panay, described it as a “complete re-architecture” of Alexa. Panay emphasized that while Alexa’s vision has always been ambitious, technological limitations previously held it back. He noted that
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