Author: Zach_Wilson
Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Make Them High-End
It’s possible to grow gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, and main-street jewelers are selling examples for hundreds of dollars, not thousands. The race is on to save the value of the most precious stone. Source
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Voicemod Key brings voice changing and soundboards to Xbox and PlayStation
Popular voice changing software Voicemod is finally going to work with game consoles like the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. While Voicemod has been available as an app on Windows PCs for more than five years, platform limitations have forced Voicemod to create dedicated hardware to bring its…
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Bose SoundLink Max Bluetooth Speaker Review: Price, Specs, Availability
This thumpingly loud, sonically impressive, robustly muscular outdoor speaker is excellent, and all the better for concentrating on the job at hand. Source
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Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU
Meta says it won’t be launching its upcoming multimodal AI model — capable of handling video, audio, images, and text — in the European Union, citing regulatory concerns. The decision will prevent European companies from using the multimodal model despite it being released under an open license. “We will release…
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The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line. Source
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Leaked AMD Ryzen 9950X benchmarks appear to show Intel how a flagship CPU is done, easily outgunning the Core i9-14900KS
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X has been the subject of another leak, with the incoming Zen 5 flagship easily outgunning Intel’s Core i9-14900KS, the fastest chip in Team Blue’s current CPU range. Wccftech noticed that Igor Kavinski posted yet more leaked benchmarks (on the Anandtech forums) using an engineering sample (pre-release…
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