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Samsung's Galaxy Watch 6 Classic: A Classic Choice at a New Price

November 9, 2024

The Galaxy Watch 6 Classic hasn’t been the newest smartwatch from Samsung for a while now, since the Galaxy Watch Ultra took its place earlier this summer. But don’t count it out just yet. It’s still the most modern Galaxy Watch Classic you can get and now, it’s a lot cheaper thanks to a recent disc

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Matter 1. 4's Updated Plans: A New Hope for Smart Home Connectivity

November 9, 2024

Imagine a future where all your smart home devices just work together, no matter which tech giants are behind them. That's the vision Matter 1. 4 promises. This new update aims to bring more device types on board, improve cross-ecosystem workability, and manage energy-saving tech like battery backup

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Why the Price of the USAF's New B-21 Bomber Might Skyrocket

November 9, 2024

The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, initially priced at $550 million per unit, is likely to cost more as time goes on. This isn't surprising. The Department of Defense knows that inflation and economic pressures make weapons programs costlier. John Venable, from The Heritage Foundation, says increased

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Why Some Tech Succeeds and Others Fail: The Key Rules

November 9, 2024

You know how Newton's laws explain how things move? Well, technology also has its own rules, but for its rise and fall. After looking at thirteen successful tech trends, we've found three laws and five more rules to help understand why some tech sticks around while others disappear. The first law i

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Training Chatbots to Be Polite: A Creative Approach

November 9, 2024

Have you ever thought about teaching a robot to be polite? It's not as easy as it sounds, especially without specific examples to guide them. That's what a team of researchers set out to do. They developed three innovative models to create chatbots that can be either polite or impolite. One model, c

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Religion in AI: Bias and Emotions Decoded

November 9, 2024

Emotions guide our actions and reveal our values. Past studies show that Large Language Models (LLMs) have biases when it comes to attributing emotions based on gender. But religion, unlike gender, comes with a set of beliefs and values. Different religions nurture specific emotions, and these rules

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Weather's Continuous Shift: A New Way to See It

November 9, 2024

When you snap a picture outside, the weather can be all kinds of things - sunny, rainy, cloudy, you name it. Weather really affects how well computer programs can figure out what's in a photo. Most current methods treat weather as a clear-cut thing, like a list of choices. But in the real world, wea

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Saving Energy at Home: A New Way to Control Heating Bills

November 9, 2024

Ever thought about managing your home's heating in a smart way? Well, one cool project did just that in Québec! The idea was to use models—called gray-box models—to figure out the best times to heat a house based on new electricity rates. First, let's talk about the place. It was a two-story resear

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Weather Data: A New Peer-to-Peer Protocol

November 9, 2024

Weather stations around the globe are busy capturing data about the environment. These instruments, often managed by weather organizations, gather information like temperature, rainfall, and wind speed. The data they collect is then sent to central points for processing. However, the current methods

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Teaching Robots to Navigate: A Fresh Look at Data Augmentation

November 9, 2024

Imagine a robot trying to find its way through a new building, relying only on human instructions. This is the challenge of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). The problem is, robots often struggle to adapt to new places because they're trained on limited data. To solve this, researchers created E