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A Stewart platform is a nifty kind of parallel robot that uses six linear actuators, with ball joints at each end, to move the top with six degrees of freedom. That’s really useful if, for example, you want a platform that you can actuate to always remain level. In
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Did you expect film and TV's Christine Baranski to be an AI overlord in an alternate universe in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 2? No? Me neither. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this week's episode 3 ups the ante even
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The AI arms race reached a fever pitch on Monday after Chinese e-commerce and cloud provider Alibaba called into question America’s technological lead with the launch of Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that goes toe-to-toe with the best models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model
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* LinkedIn will hold GPU investment and its compute and storage footprint flat rather than expanding its AI data centers * The company says it roughly doubled the efficiency of its existing GPUs in six months through accumulated improvements to utilization, model distillation, and workload allocation, not a single breakthrough * This makes
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Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked. In a fireside chat with VentureBeat'
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Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise
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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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Malwarebytes, one of CNET.com’s Best Antivirus Overall Editors’ Choice award picks, is offering students at US colleges and universities two free years of its Malwarebytes Premium Security software suite through its Student Protection Program. The offer includes coverage for up to three devices. Malwarebytes built its reputation on
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Ted Lasso said goodbye to fans over three years ago, leaving many wondering if we’d ever see that loveable mustachioed soccer coach again. Well, the answer to that question is a resounding yes, as Apple TV‘s Emmy-winning comedy is back with new episodes. In season 4, Coach Lasso
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You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it’s an action title about a militarized elephant or turning horse races into
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Beast of Reincarnation left me surprised in several ways and expertly blends several aspects from popular titles like From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to Square Enix's Final Fantasy 16. Most importantly, though, developer Game Freak has taken its experience with its Pokémon games and crafted
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Shrinking kitchens in modern homes mean appliances are working harder than ever to earn a place on your counter. It's not unreasonable to expect your blender to double as a food processor, or your microwaves that moonlight as air fryers are now commonplace. Panasonic, however, has combined two
