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Source: The Verge Vice President JD Vance is a busy man. Over the past three weeks, he’s traveled to France and Germany, addressed the crowd at a massive conservative conference, berated the Ukrainian president, and visited the US-Mexico border. Despite his busy schedule, Vance seemingly always finds time to engage in one of his favorite…
Source: The Verge Netflix plans to spend around $18 billion on content this year – and chief financial officer Spencer Neumann thinks that number could increase down the line. “We are not anywhere near a ceiling,” Neumann said during the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media, and Telecom Conference this week, as reported by Variety. “I think…
Source: Venture Beat Yelp found that when it first launched a GPT-4o-powered AI chatbot, usage rates dropped. But training it to sound like a human changed that. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge Today, it seems likely they will, because filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reveal the console will support NFC. They even specify that the RFID feature will be located in the right Joy-Con, just like it was in the original Switch. The Nintendo Switch 2 is apparently designated the BEE-001, the…
Source: Venture Beat In the male-dominated landscape of game startups, women were only 0.11 percent of the game VC deal value in 2024, worse when compared to 0.18% in 2023, according to a report by PitchBook. Women have always had low representation among the funded technology startups. But it’s far worse in the game industry…
Source: The Verge Apple might have just updated the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, but if all you need is a good daily driver, they’re completely overkill. The M4-powered Mac Mini is probably the better option in most instances, especially since the desktop is currently matching its all-time low of $529…
Source: The Verge Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it…
Source: The Verge President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a Bitcoin reserve held by the US government. The reserve, which crypto czar David Sacks has likened to a “digital Fort Knox,” will include the assets the government collected as part of criminal or civil forfeitures – currently estimated at around 200,000…
Source: Venture Beat To tackle data-retrieval-based hallucinations in non-diagnostic use cases, Mayo Clinic has applied CURE reverse RAG paired with vector databases. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge AMD is announcing that its latest gaming-oriented Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors will be available next week. The new chips improve on the 9800X3D, which is widely considered as the best gaming CPU. The new ones feature 16 Zen 5 cores and second-generation 3D V-Cache technology that could help those looking…
