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The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in… Continue Reading →
A growing number of doctors are advocating to rename low-grade prostate cancer to reduce unnecessary aggressive treatments that can lead to debilitating side effects. About one-quarter of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have the lowest-risk form, yet studies show 40%… Continue Reading →
Last August, LexisNexis Legal & Professional released the preview version of Protégé, its AI-powered legal assistant that incorporates both generative and agentic AI capabilities, describing it as a “substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work.”… Continue Reading →
The EFF has complained that in general “smart” products for babies “collect a ton of information about you and your baby on an ongoing basis”. (For this year’s “worst in privacy” product at CES they chose a $1,200 baby bassinet… Continue Reading →
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which “will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.” Wikipedia defines ACPI as “an open standard that operating systems can use… Continue Reading →
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1’s license agreement, and announced this week that “this is not a free software license and you should… Continue Reading →
Over a decade ago, my colleague Brian Orndorf covered Universal’s US Blu-ray of Ron Howard’s eighth big-screen feature, Far and Away (1992). For Brian’s impressions of the film and his assessment of Universal’s a/v presentations, please click here….VideoShout Select’s 4K… Continue Reading →
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority “for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,” reports USA Today. Unfortunately, “What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a… Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets developers add documents to Claude’s context window, enabling the model to… Continue Reading →
All 106 episodes of the five-season run of NBC’s ‘Las Vegas’ arrive on Blu-ray courtesy of Universal. The series stars James Caan, Josh Duhamel, Nikki Cox, Molly Sims, James Lesure, and Vanessa Marcil, with frequent guest appearances from Cheryl Ladd,… Continue Reading →