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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been chosen to co-lead a Federal Reserve task force examining productivity and employment. Somewhat ironically, her new advisory role comes only three days after Microsoft unveiled
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The field of lithium batteries is currently dominated by Chinese companies like BYD and CATL. Not only do they sell the majority of batteries that go into electric vehicles and energy storage projects worldwide, they’re also opening up new factories in your backyard. When companies outside China try to
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The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and retraining pipelines to fight data drift. Google Research
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Those after significant scale of sound and/or those who will be using vinyl as their primary source of music are not well served here, but for the rest of us, the PSB iQ2 is a likeable, listenable little system. It has lots going for it where specification, finish, operability
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Well, it's confirmed: Zen 6 is a go, and it's happening this month. In fact, it's happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle's TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will
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This week, OpenAI introduced GPT-Live, a line of voice models it claims can hold natural, real-time conversations. The models can listen to you and speak at the same time—perhaps the most natural conversational element of all—allowing you and any other human conversationalists to interrupt, change topics, or ask
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At SGF 2026, I tried out a game with visuals ripped straight from Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball and classic '80s anime. 4 min read With couch co-op games so rare, it's been lovely to see more debut at this year's Summer Game Fest. It'
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Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a
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The fight over AI’s harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots that prey on children. On Friday the Massachusetts
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Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford’s recent report, AI performance on a key coding benchmark jumped from 60% to nearly 100% in a single year, while organizational AI adoption reached 88%. As AI capabilities
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Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything, ship only what improves the score. Saarth Shah keeps a scoreboard. Every build of Sixtyfour’s research agents is graded against questions a team of
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Key Takeaways * Stablecoin payments help businesses combine blockchain settlement speed with more predictable value. * The best stablecoin payment solution should support acceptance, stablecoin settlement, fiat settlement, reporting, compliance, and payout capabilities. * Stablecoins are useful for ecommerce businesses, SaaS companies, international merchants, marketplaces, affiliate networks, global payroll, and cross-border supplier payments.
