Month: August 2026
‘The best Shark vacuum cleaner overall’ is now down 48% — just in time for spring cleaning
The term spring cleaning exists for a reason, and the new season is right around the corner, officially kicking off in Australia on Tuesday, September 1. That means you don’t have long to get your cleaning tools in order, specifically a vacuum cleaner. If your current model could do with…
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11X cheaper than ChatGPT: Tiny 150M model just proved AI doesn’t need to “think out loud” to be smart
A 150M model reached 29.5% while costing just $0.0007 per task ChatGPT scored higher, yet its comparable reasoning runs cost substantially more BDH-CQ performs reasoning internally instead of generating lengthy intermediate text Pathway, an AI lab focused on building Post-Transformer architectures, has released new benchmark results for its BDH-CQ reasoning…
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Redditor turns Android phone into a desktop PC in a stroke of genius, sandwiching it between two huge CPU coolers so it runs Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra
A Redditor has turned their phone into a desktop PC, sort of This involves jamming the device between two hefty CPU coolers The results are seriously impressive, including running PC games at playable frame rates on a Linux desktop Have you ever thought about using your phone as a PC?…
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Russia’s Microsoft Office challenger forced to shut down offices and fire workers as reports claim it is losing millions
MyOffice closes St. Petersburg and Innopolis development centers, moving remaining staff into Kaspersky Lab’s Moscow office after restructuring Parent company New Cloud Technologies restated its 2025 accounts in June 2026, raising the net loss from 4.02 billion to 8.82 billion rubles, roughly $107 million, while revenue halved to about 1…
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Roku’s new AI channel is top of the slops: is this an important AI milestone or just “the cutting edge of AI slop”?
Channel 300 brings you Fairground AI, 24/7 AI video Critics have been harsh, calling the channel “slop” Could this be a lawsuit waiting to happen? Roku has added four new channels to its Roku Channel collection: Mad TV, Retro Black Laughs, Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Fairground AI. That…
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A rare two-player Computer Space arcade machine is up for auction
The sparkly cabinet is part of a huge retro tech auction focused on Steve Jobs and the computer revolution. Source
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