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An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.'
Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four different versions: one taken from the original CD file,.
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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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After decades in public service roles, former defence minister Harjit Sajjan is now a defence-tech entrepreneur with Juno Industries. Read more ›
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Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or XBOX? The results were in favor of XBOX, and the company has now renamed its X account. […] Read more ›
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Over the years, the iPhone's operating system has gotten complicated. Apple adds new features with every version of iOS, and many of them aren't always obvious, leading to hidden iPhone capabilities you might not be aware of. The tips below assume that you have iOS 26 or later installed. Turn an App Into a Widget You can turn most app icons into widgets right from the iPhone's Home Screen. Just... Read more ›
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25 countries and only one winner. How are you going to vote? Here's how to watch Eurovision 2026 Grand Final online and for free from anywhere. Read more ›
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Google has disclosed the system requirements for its upcoming Gemini Intelligence ecosystem. According to documentation found on an official product page, the advanced artificial intelligence features will not be universally compatible with all Android devices, as they necessitate specific hardware and software standards, including support for the Gemini Nano v3 model. Minimum Specifications To run Gemini Intelligence, mobile devices must fulfill several strict criteria detailed by Google: Hardware: A premi Read more ›
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Neural Handwriting is now live for every Ray-Ban Display owner, letting them type messages with finger movements, with no voice or phone required. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity with more common 30.72TB SSDs... Read more ›
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Bandai Namco announced the mysterious new project at the recent Gundam Conference. Read more ›
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Valve is currently offering a free download of the psychological horror game Terrors to Unveil – Day Off on its Steam platform. PC gamers can permanently add the title to their libraries at no cost, provided they claim it before the promotion ends on May 20. Game Overview The plot centers on Jack Williams, a 26-year-old worker who has just completed a demanding work week. Seeking relaxation, Williams travels to... Read more ›
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WhatsApp has always let you send messages that vanish on a timer, but the clock starts the moment you hit send, not when the other person actually read it. That means a message could sit unread for hours and still disappear before anyone sees it. This is why WhatsApp is testing a new feature called […] Read more ›
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Google has agreed to a $135 million preliminary settlement in the class-action lawsuit Taylor v. Google LLC, which alleges the company transferred user data from Android devices without permission, thereby consuming users’ cellular data. While Google has not admitted fault, the company has agreed to the financial terms and specific operational changes. As part of the agreement, Google will update its Google Play terms of service to clarify that passive... Read more ›
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The launch of Google Health, its new app, and the Fitbit Air is around the corner. In fact, for many of you, the new Google Health app should start showing up on your phones as an update as early as next week on May 19. Once that happens, you will need to decide if subscribing... Read the original post: Google Health Premium vs. Basic Features: Worth Paying For? Read more ›
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From Ford Rancheros to Studebaker Champs, these trucks turn heads more heads today than they did in the '60s, with bold silhouettes and hardy engineering. Read more ›
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YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts […] Read more ›
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A cybersecurity flaw in Yarbo robotic mowers exposed thousands of internet-connected devices to spying, hijacking, infrastructure, and surveillance risks. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City's sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital's cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The teetering of many of the capital's historic buildings is the most visible sign... Read more ›
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reported this week here at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union. Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) software turned the fiber optic data into... Read more ›
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A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. "Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future," Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect of Buddhism in South Korea, tells the New York... Read more ›
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America's school districts "spent billions on technology during the pandemic," reports the Washington Post. "But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children." Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology between 2020 and 2024, according to an estimate by the Edunomics Lab,... Read more ›
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A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new... Read more ›
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CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got... Read more ›
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All 20 of America's state-run healthcare marketplace sites "include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies," reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg: Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Nextdoor, and LinkedIn, among others. Some of the data collected and shared with... Read more ›
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Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models," reports SC World, "and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain." [Cisco's Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a "fingerprint" for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins.... Read more ›
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"Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops," reports ScienceAlert, "and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows.... to germinate in 'anticipation' of the coming deluge." The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense and respond to sounds in nature... "The energy of the rain... Read more ›
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September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization's "Trump Phone" — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward: FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name "T1" show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January... [T]he phone was submitted for testing by another company... Read more ›
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