Month: September 2024

The lone US manufacturer of boutique keycaps may have just been saved

Signature Plastics, the Custer, Washington-based company known for specialized mechanical keyboard keycaps, has announced it’s being acquired by a Portland-based investment group that intends to keep the company operating with all employees maintained. This comes after majority owner Bob Guenser announced his plans to retire and find new ownership back…

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Geralt broods by the campfire in the first clip from Netflix’s The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

On Tuesday, Netflix dropped a clip from The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep at the company’s Geeked Week 2024 event. The clip for the upcoming animated film leans on the familiar dulcet growls of Doug Cockle, who voiced Geralt of Rivia in the games. Cockle introduces the clip with an…

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SocialAI: We tried the Twitter clone where no other humans are allowed

Remember the last time you posted a salient take to social media and got zero engagement, or trolled? Now you can avoid that with a new “social network” full of inane AI chatbots that will — your pick! — debate you, attack you, or even just say nice things if…

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OpenAI’s new model is better at reasoning and, occasionally, deceiving

In the weeks leading up to the release of OpenAI’s newest “reasoning” model, o1, independent AI safety research firm Apollo found a notable issue. Apollo realized the model produced incorrect outputs in a new way. Or, to put things more colloquially, it lied. Sometimes the deceptions seemed innocuous. In one…

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Storage, not GPUs, is the biggest challenge to AI says influential report — lack of bits and bytes is what could make or break your AI/ML project

A major report on the state of the AI industry has revealed some key insights into potential problems for companies and the industry at large as its growth continues to boom following the release of ChatGPT and other AI models.  WEKA, commissioned by S&P Global Market Intelligence, recently released its…

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How to Shop Like a Pro During Amazon Prime Day October 2024

We’ve got tips to help you find real deals on Amazon’s Big Deal Days on October 8 and 9. Source

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