The Flexify Air Fryer Oven by Chinese brand Midea has French doors, a design choice that has left the author puzzled. Despite being voted best-in-show by The Kitchn, the chunky handles and linked doors seem to add unnecessary complexity. The product copy highlights the “elegant” dual-opening door system, but the author questions the practicality of […]
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General Motors has updated their electric vehicles’ software to allow customers access to Tesla’s Supercharging network. Owners of Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC EVs can now purchase GM-approved Tesla adapters through brand apps for $225. GM plans to include Tesla’s charging port in future vehicles. This move, which took over 15 months to implement, will provide […]
Moshi is a cutting-edge speech-text foundation model and spoken dialogue framework that utilizes Mimi, an advanced neural audio codec. Moshi predicts text tokens corresponding to its own speech and inner monologue, enhancing the quality of its output. The model achieves a theoretical latency of 160ms with practical latency as low as 200ms on an L4 […]
LLaMA-Omni is a cutting-edge speech-language model that allows for seamless speech interactions with low latency and high quality responses. It is built on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, ensuring top-notch performance. Surprisingly, it can simultaneously generate text and speech responses based on speech instructions. This model was trained in less than 3 days using just 4 GPUs, showcasing its […]
Sergei, a veteran of the Soviet computing industry, shares his experience with a shocking bug in an SM-1800 computer at a railway station near Sverdlovsk in 1986. The crashes were linked to radiation from cattle shipments contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Despite government plans to mix the radioactive meat with uncontaminated meat to mask radiation […]
Comic Mono is a legible monospace font created by a software developer by adjusting Comic Shanns (version 1) using a Python script. The font has consistent glyph width, improved display with system fonts like Cousine, and a bold version generated with FontForge. The font files are available for download in both regular and bold versions. […]
In response to an investigative news story on the de-anonymization of an Onion Service user through a targeted law-enforcement attack, The Tor Project highlights the importance of using Tor Browser to access the web securely and anonymously. The project emphasizes the need to keep software versions up to date and mentions the risk faced by […]
On September 19, 2024, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo Co., Ltd. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. in the Tokyo District Court. The lawsuit claims that Pocketpair’s game Palworld infringes on multiple patent rights owned by Nintendo. This legal action seeks to stop the infringement and receive compensation for damages. Nintendo is determined […]
RabbitMQ 4.0.0 is a major release with new features and improvements. The Khepri schema data store has matured, AMQP 1.0 is now a core protocol, and the AMQP 1.0 implementation is more efficient. Quorum queues now support priorities, and classic queue mirroring has been removed in favor of quorum queues and streams. RabbitMQ 4.0.0 requires […]
In 2024, the world of computing has shifted to cloud-based services, but there is a resurgence in self-hosting as a form of rebellion against monopolies. Self-hosting allows for control over digital selves and is a hobby for enthusiasts. A shared web hosting service like Uberspace can provide SSH access to a cloud computer for software […]