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Sony will ship its last batch of Blu-ray recorders this month, according to Kyodo News, ending the company's decades-long run in a product category it helped create. The recorders targeted exclusively the Japanese domestic market, where households used them to record broadcast television. Sony had already stopped manufacturing the devices and recordable discs about a year ago, and the final shipments are clearing out remaining inventory.
Kyodo attributes the segment's death to the rise of streaming servic
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Когда A/B-тест не показывает эффект, это не всегда значит, что эффекта нет. Иногда он просто теряется в шуме метрики.В таких случаях обычно делают одно из трёх: увеличивают трафик, продлевают эксперимент или признают, что продуктовый эффект слишком слабый. Но есть и четвёртый путь — уменьшить дисперсию оценки. Для этого часто используют CUPED. Реже — VWE. И ещё реже обсуждают, что эти методы борются с разными источниками шума. Код, графики и все... Read more ›
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In December, the Federal Communications Commission banned all future drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the United States, unless or until their maker gets an exemption. Now, the FCC has done the exact same for consumer networking gear, citing "an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States and to […] Read more ›
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Lock maker Kwikset today added CarPlay integration to the Kwikset app, which means iPhone owners can lock or unlock Kwikset smart locks directly from the car's dashboard. The feature works with Kwikset locks that are controlled with the Kwikset app, and it allows locks to be accessed without the need to open the app on an iPhone. When arriving home or leaving, vehicle owners can use CarPlay to unlock or... Read more ›
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Two people can have almost identical lives — same income, same career stage, same general circumstances — and one feels grateful while the other feels like a failure. The difference isn’t in the life. It’s in the measurement. Two ways to measure yourself Psychology has studied this ... Read more Read more ›
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The crypto industry got a first look at legislative language that won't allow rewards on stablecoin balances, and the approach is seen as restrictive. Read more ›
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Routers the FCC has already approved can still be sold, but further approvals of foreign-made routers will not be issued. Read more ›
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The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk. The rule states that new foreign-made product models for network routers will land on the Covered List, a set of communications equipment seen as having an unacceptable risk to national security. Previously purchased routers can still be used and retailers can still sell models that were approved by the... Read more ›
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3D printers make it tempting to try everything, but a few categories are best avoided if you care about safety and peace of mind. Read more ›
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Microsoft hired Ali Farhadi, former Allen Institute CEO, to join Mustafa Suleyman's AI team as corporate VP. Read more ›
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A fresh update is rolling out to owners of the last two Galaxy Z series of devices. Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, along with the newer Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are all getting update. Once updated, you’ll be on the latest March security patch. Nothing else... Read the original post: Latest Samsung Foldables Get March Security Patch Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he understands the concerns about "AI slop" with DLSS 5 but insists the feature preserves a gameâ(TM)s underlying geometry and artistic intent. "I think their perspective makes sense, " said Huang during a recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. "And I could see where they're coming from because I don't love AI slop myself. You know, all of the AI-generated content increasingly looks similar,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced (PDF) a bill on Monday that could prevent prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket from allowing users to wager money on sports events or play casino-style games. This bipartisan bill would not apply to FanDuel and DraftKings, which are subject to state-by-state gambling laws, rather than federal ones. "Sports prediction contracts are sports... Read more ›
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Oura launched the Ring 4 back in October of 2024, and today its successor has purportedly been leaked in the images you can see below. Alongside the pictures, there are some details outed too. The Oura Ring 5 is only expected to arrive in late 2027, apparently, which would make this one of the earliest leaks we've ever seen. The new ring will replace the old one's Rose Gold colorway... Read more ›
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Подобно физике, математика имеет свой собственный набор «элементарных частиц» — простых чисел, которые нельзя разложить на более мелкие натуральные числа. Их можно делить только на самих себя и на единицу.И, как показывают последние исследования, оказывается, что эти математические «частицы» открывают новые пути для решения некоторых из самых глубоких загадок физики. За последний год исследователи обнаружили, что формулы, основанные на простых числах, могут описывать особенности чёрных дыр. Теоретики чисел. Read more ›
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Get ready for "fake frames" on the PlayStation 6, or whatever Sony is cooking up next. Read more ›
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More than 30 billion images captured by Pokemon Go players have helped train a visual mapping system developed by Niantic. The technology is now being used to guide delivery robots from Coco Robotics through city streets where GPS often struggles. Popular Science reports: This week, Niantic Spatial, part of the team behind Pokemon Go, announced a partnership with Coco Robotics, a company that makes short-distance delivery robots for food and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" just over a year ago, we've seen a rapid increase in both the capabilities and popularity of using AI models to throw together quick programming projects with less human time and effort than ever before. One such vibe-coded project, Gaming Alexandria Researcher, launched over the weekend as what coder Dustin Hubbard called an... Read more ›
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The Champlain Hudson Power Express, a $6 billion, 339-mile buried transmission line, will soon deliver Canadian hydropower from Hydro-Quebec to New York City. The project could supply up to 20% of the city's electricity and power roughly one million homes throughout the year. "This is far and away the largest project I have ever worked on," said Bob Harrison, who has worked in infrastructure for 40 years and is the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: Republican lawmakers in multiple states and Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability and prevent any type of liability for climate change harms -- even as these harms and their associated costs continue to mount. It's the latest in a counter-offensive that has unfolded on multiple fronts, from the halls of Congress and the White House to... Read more ›
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Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five nucleobases -- the key building blocks of DNA and RNA. "This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have brought the ingredients for the first living organisms to Earth long ago," reports New Scientist. From the report: Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft visited Ryugu in 2018, where it shot two projectiles -- one small and one large -- into the surface of the asteroid... Read more ›
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The U.S. SEC is reportedly preparing a proposal to make quarterly earnings reports optional, potentially allowing companies to report results just twice a year. "The proposal could be published as soon as next month," reports Reuters, citing a paywalled report from the Wall Street Journal, adding that "regulators are in talks with major exchanges to discuss how their rules may need to be adjusted." Reuters reports: The SEC will vote... Read more ›
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"There are countless upgrades you could make to your gaming setup," writes PC Gamer's Jacob Ridley. "A wireless this, a bigger that, a faster thing. But how do you know what's going to be a genuine upgrade worth investing in? Personally, I think it might be split spacebars." His argument centers on the fact that spacebars take up a "greedy" amount of keyboard space -- space that could instead be... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers -- mostly of the technical variety -- during his keynote Monday to kick off the company's annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will be $1 trillion worth of orders for Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin... Read more ›
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Samsung is reportedly ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just months after launch, likely due to "high production costs" and limited supply. 9to5Google reports: The Galaxy Z TriFold launched in South Korea barely four months ago, arriving in Samsung's home market ahead of a larger debut in the U.S. and other markets in January. The $2,899 smartphone brought an entirely new form factor to the foldable market, but it's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: A battle of insults and threats has broken out between the tech world and Wall Street. What's got everyone so worked up? The same thing that starts most fights: business software. A series of social-media posts went viral in recent days with claims that AI has created a worthy -- and way cheaper -- alternative to the Bloomberg terminal,... Read more ›
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