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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on
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YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after
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TL;DR Cross-border payroll moves $200B+ annually through fragmented infrastructure that lacks the shared plumbing financial markets built decades ago. Companies scale into new markets by adding vendors one at a time, creating reconciliation gaps and compliance risk. Platforms like Papaya Global are replacing that patchwork with unified gross-to-net engines,
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TL;DR Coefficient Giving CEO Alexander Berger told Semafor that AI wealth is about to add roughly $40bn a year to American philanthropy, contingent on Anthropic and OpenAI listing. His foundation funds Redwood Research, one of the outfits OpenAI brought in to investigate its own agents breaching Hugging Face. The
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IFA is, as you'll probably know, a huge annual tech expo held in Berlin. It's also where some of audio-slash-hi-fi's biggest hitters unveil their latest wearable innovations — and this year is one of the best (and most varied) product lineups we've seen
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* GoPro CEO Nick Woodman has released a statement following concern around the company's "merger" with Starman * He provides assurances that the company is committed to making consumer cameras * But there are no concrete commitments – and a disclaimer list that's longer than the statement itself
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Artificial intelligence is now radically reshaping the landscape of physics, generating experimental layouts that outperform traditional human engineering while sparking questions about the nature of scientific inquiry. A publication in the Nature journal highlights just how machine learning algorithms have evolved from computational assistants into creative experimental architects. Researchers in
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Seeed Studio has announced a new development kit for computer vision projects, which pairs a Rockchip RK3576 computer-on-module with a feature-packed carrier board — plus an optional RK1820 neural coprocessor delivering a claimed 20 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at minimum precision. "The reComputer RK3576 Module Dev Kit combines
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As long as you have enough memory, it is possible to run even a frontier large language model (LLM) on just about any hardware. Big, fancy GPUs aren’t needed. A somewhat modern CPU will do the job. To be clear, it wouldn’t do the job well (it would
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The temptation to use an AI chatbot to do your actual work is real and understandable, and academic institutions are spending considerable energy trying to prevent it. But the energy focused on AI as a cheating tool has somewhat obscured the case for AI as a legitimate study tool, one
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But you'll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it. dennizn/Shutterstock Continuing the trend of trying to make Windows 11 suck less, Microsoft today announced Project Zenith, a new "ready-to-code distraction free Windows experience" for powerful developer hardware with 64GB of RAM
