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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is testing a Material 3 Expressive-style redesign on Wear OS 5. The new UI features larger icons and an improved layout. The changes have only been rolled out to select users so far. Google Maps is getting a fresh look on smartwatches, and it’s not waiting […]
Microsoft has no plans to get out of the console business anytime soon. The company has been reiterating for a while that it’s going to make at least one more generation of Xbox consoles. It’s now been confirmed that AMD will power the upcoming hardware, . Xbox president Sarah Bond made the announcement in . […]
On the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico lies the country’s only coal-fired power station, flanked by a mountain of toxic ash. The plant, owned by the utility giant AES, has long plagued this part of Puerto Rico with air and water pollution. Before the coal plant opened Guayama had on average just over 103 cancer […]
Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it’s bringing advertising to WhatsApp, but emphasized that the ads are “built with privacy in mind.” The ads are expected to be displayed on the Updates tab through its Stories-like Status feature, which allows ephemeral sharing of photos, videos, voice notes, and […]
Dev of the Past Needs to look up something in the Ruby docs (say, the official doc for class Array). Goes to browser window. Goes to search engine. Searches for Ruby Array. Gets annoying and useless suggestions, such as: Class: Array (Ruby 3.1.0) (Out-of-date; also not Ruby official doc site). Class: Array (Ruby 2.7.2) (Even […]
In May, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. May 1 22:09 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 4 minutes) On May 1, 2025, from 22:09 UTC to 23:13 UTC, the Issues service was degraded and users weren’t able to upload attachments. The root cause was identified to be a new […]
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in business operations, from customer service agents and recommendation engines to fraud detection and supply chain optimization, trust in these systems is critical. But trust in AI solutions doesn’t stem from the algorithms. It’s rooted in the data. Diverse, high-quality data is a prerequisite for reliable, effective, and ethical AI […]
In the original narrative of deep learning, each neuron builds progressively more abstract, meaningful features by composing features in the preceding layer. In recent years, there’s been some skepticism of this view, but what happens if you take it really seriously? InceptionV1 is a classic vision model with around 10,000 unique neurons — a large number, but […]
If you’re looking for the ultimate gaming experience, you’ll need the ultimate gaming monitor to go along with it, and the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 might be just that. This gaming display is huge, spanning 49-inches across corner to corner, and features a curved OLED panel. It has a recommended price of $1,799, but it’s […]
from the so-it-went dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Don Henley was using TikTok as a reason to push for stronger copyright laws, while some Senators were asking the FCC to reinterpret Section 230 in a ridiculous manner, and Ron Wyden was explaining how Trump and many others were totally wrong about 230. […]
