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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW August 17, 2026 06:20 PM ET The new guidance says the U.S. "will further strengthen its workforce by attracting and retaining top-tier global talent in critical national security S&T fields” — a departure from last year’
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The demand for high-quality water filtration continues to spike. There are dozens of brands, all claiming to have the best system for cleansing your water and protecting you from lead, organic compounds, microplastics and forever chemicals. Water filters come in a range of types — whole-house, under-sink, filter pitchers and countertop
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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The demand for high-quality water filtration continues to spike. There are dozens of brands, all claiming to have the best system for cleansing your water and protecting you from lead, organic compounds, microplastics and forever chemicals. Water filters come in a range of types — whole-house, under-sink, filter pitchers and countertop
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Back-to-school tech under $50 Iniu Mini portable charger A lot of students have at least one or two devices that constantly run out of juice. This affordable Mini portable charger is quite compact for a 10,000-mAh charger, weighing 5.6 ounces. While it doesn’t have a built-in USB-C
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Heading back to school and decided this is the year you hit the ground running with your studies? You'll want to equip yourself with the right kit to set yourself up for success. I'm talking about the little extras that will help you focus and improve
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The ideas that we take for granted in today's computing landscape were once all original thoughts that somebody had to devise and implement out of nothing. Both Apple and Microsoft were pioneering companies in this space, but not all great ideas that stuck necessarily came from either company.
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 17, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,NBS Dedicated SWAC Computer in 1950, World's First Transatlantic Balloon Flight completed in 1978, Venera 7 launched by the Soviet Union
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Two years ago, testing an image-to-3D model meant looking for the obvious failures: a mesh with a hole in it, a character with three arms, a shape that made no sense. Those failures are now rare across the leading models, and the question worth asking has changed. It's
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Multi-image input was a user request long before it was a shipped feature. Scroll the feature-request threads on almost any image-to-3D project and the same ask keeps surfacing, usually with the same reasoning attached: one picture can't carry the proportions, and it certainly can't carry the
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A long-time ICX holder opens their Kraken account, sees the migration banner for ICX to SODA, and is welcomed through without lifting a finger. No seed phrase to write down, no browser wallet to install first. SODAX's Head of Marketing, David, has described centralized exchange migration in exactly
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Ask a coding agent to design a SaaS product and you can usually predict what arrives: cream or near-black background, muted orange button, serif headline, centered hero, three feature cards, rounded corners everywhere and, of course, a sparkle icon for AI. You did not request those decisions. The agent filled
