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Researchers at Columbia demonstrated the first real-time brain-controlled hearing system that can identify which speaker a listener is focusing on in a noisy environment and automatically amplify that voice while suppressing others. "This breakthrough addresses the 'cocktail party effect,' a major limitation of conventional hearing aids, which often struggle to distinguish between overlapping conversations in noisy settings," reports Neuroscience News. From the report: In the new study, Columbia researchers
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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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Warframe finally goes to Tau, with developer Digital Extremes aiming to take its universe in a bold new direction. Read more ›
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Milwaukee has a reputation for having some of the best power tools around, but Makita is a strong competitor. Sometimes, their products are even more powerful. Read more ›
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The music industry wants Spotify and Apple Music to label AI-generated songs, giving listeners greater transparency as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly common in music production. Read more ›
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Flipper Devices keeps firmware development alive through community contributions while shifting internal resources toward new hardware projects and products. Read more ›
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Motorola will unveil the Edge 70 Max on July 15, and it has already revealed the smartphone's design and confirmed the chip that will power it. Now, Indian online retailer Flipkart has revealed more details about the Motorola Edge 70 Max, including its battery capacity and charging speed. The Motorola Edge 70 Max will pack a 7,100 mAh battery with 90W wired charging and "category's only fast magnetic wireless charging."... Read more ›
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Amazon Prime Day has discounted a wide range of security cameras, but while the ultra-cheap Ring and Blink are tempting, there are great deals for subscription-free options, too. Read more ›
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We've found a sneaky way to stream UFC 329 for basically free as Conor McGregor makes his sensational return to the octagon. Read more ›
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If you've got bad wireless internet signal in your home, a Wi-Fi extender might be the answer to your woes - but they're not necessarily a perfect solution. Read more ›
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MeetingTV sues Koi Security over alleged AI-generated false claims linking its software to Chinese cybercrime, causing reputational and business damage. Read more ›
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Ни для кого не секрет, что IoT‑устройства собирают огромное количество информации, в том числе личные данные пользователей и фиксируют их местоположение. А также они жёстко привязаны к конкретному производителю, т.е. пользователь зависим от конкретного производителя или бренда. Гаджеты совместимы с парой основных систем, но кроссплатформенность отсутствует. Устройства разных производителей часто не могут взаимодействовать друг с другом без дополнительных шлюзов. Универсального протокола связи устройств тоже Read more ›
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Я закинул бюджет в Telegram-рекламу своего pet-проекта — новостного бота — и за сутки получил +232 подписчика. Дашборд загорелся зелёным: «активация 81%». Палец уже тянулся к кнопке «пополнить баланс».Хорошо, что не долил. Потому что когда я посмотрел, что эти 232 человека реально делают, оказалось: живое действие — осознанный тап 👍 или клик по ссылке — сделал ровно один. Остальные 231 — мёртвые души: 35% заблокировали бота в первый же день,... Read more ›
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Для разработки одного из моих проектов: документа BDoc (Book Document альтернатива устаревшим закрытым бинарным форматами такими как IDML, INDD или Scribus SLA) потребовалась нейросеть, которая может держать контекст очень долго. На данный момент для это цели идеально подходит Gemini, так как контекстное окно у Gemini в 1 миллион токенов. Но есть одна загвоздка, компания Google заблокировала некоторые регионы. То есть запросы от этих регионов не будут доходить до google. Рассмотрев... Read more ›
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Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping… 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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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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Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and... Read more ›
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Refrigerators are a must-have kitchen appliance, we all know that. Some refrigerators say "Garage Ready" on them. What does this actually mean? Read more ›
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Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs." In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they could spe Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very Google-centric collaboration... Read more ›
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CNN reports: Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed "hobbits" due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn't as advanced as scientists previously believed.... The researchers believe that much like how Komodo... Read more ›
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247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. "They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable." After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range, according to Recurrent,... Read more ›
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"The internet is filled with fakes," writes Gizmodo. "A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court's decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India's borders." GoDaddy... Read more ›
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"A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize," reports the Guardian. In mid-May the story had been selected as a regional winner, but with critics on X and Bluesky "claiming it showed 'obvious markers' of AI use." In the wake of the controversy, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted a review of the regional winners, which it... Read more ›
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America's Justice Department and FBI teamed joined Finland's National Bureau of Investigation to arrest a teenager they say is part of one of the world's biggest cybercrime syndicates, reports Tom's Hardware. The "Scattered Spider" syndicate has extorted over $100 million in ransom payments, according to Department of Justice figures: 19-year-old Peter Stokes is a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen who was trying to board a flight to Japan from Helsinki, when law... Read more ›
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Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than "power apps"). Some of these are closed source, some are open, but they're not all available in Linux yet. My list would have to contain Gimp Tookit versions of: IrfanView image manager, which I think is unequaled in Linux (though... Read more ›
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Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group "assisting clients with AI implementations," reports CNBC: [Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that's become known as forward deployed engineering [or FDE]... The announcement comes two days after cloud rival Amazon said it was putting $1 billion behind an FDE initiative to support fast-paced AI engagements. Leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI both... Read more ›
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"Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch. That's the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp's corporate card/bill pay data as well as Revelio Labs' workforce records from 21,599 U.S. firms: According to the report, "high-intensity adopters" — firms that spend on average $30 per employee per month on AI in the first three... Read more ›
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