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The MDLondon Curl is a curling wand with a difference. For one, it looks more like something you’d find in a tool box than on a dressing table. That right-angled wand is designed to be more comfortable to hold, for a styling experience with more control and less arm-ache. Unfortunately, the only demo video I…

Researchers from top US universities warn extending pre-training can be detrimental to performance Too much pre-training can deliver worse performance due to something akin to the butterfly effect The more they are pre-trained, the more they become sensitive to small changes that could disrupt the end result Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton…

Certain electronics gadgets are now exempt from certain tariffs Phones, laptops, and processors all get a reprieve – which includes China It’s still not clear what will happen next with electronics pricing There’s a new twist in the US tariff trade war: Phones, computers, semiconductors and various other electronics are now exempt from punishing import…

Broadband Optical SSDs may be key to development of town-sized mega data centers Opting for optical SSDs allow distance between compute and storage to grow far more The other advantage of going optical is the energy savings associated with moving petabytes of data around A trio of Japanese tech giants, Kioxia, AIO Core, and Kyocera,…

I’ve watched enough robot videos online to know that slapping an AI model into a hunk of hardware doesn’t automatically make it useful. I remember one clip in particular where someone had wired ChatGPT into a robot dog, and the results were mixed. Sure, the robot could suddenly answer your questions with confidence. But asking…