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Developer MIYADAIKU has released the β version of Location Scout (どこでもロケハン): the service assembles real city blocks in 3D from maps and terrain elevations and draws line-art manga backgrounds with…
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Apple has introduced Apple HomeView: a home display with Siri AI, face recognition and smart home control. Pre-orders from October 13, sales from November 13, price $299.
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Apple has shown the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K with Siri AI: the assistant puts answers across the whole screen, supports follow-up questions while watching, and control without a remote.
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Meta introduced the Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models for expert tasks in law, finance, and medicine. The family features Active Memory and Active Focus, and is available through…
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YouTuber Anthony Sistilli built a license plate recognition system that tracks only police cars, and showed the build. On September 20, officers from Peel Regional Police in Ontario came to…
Read the newsShahir turned Google's embedding model into an STT system: on a base M3 MacBook Air, an hour of audio is transcribed in about 13 seconds. The model itself was not…
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Character Technologies, the owner of the AI-companion app Character.AI, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on October 12, 2026, and plans to sell its assets. The stalking horse bidder,…
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On 13 October 1884 in Washington, 26 countries and 41 delegates decided what longitude and time should be counted from. The meridian of the Greenwich Observatory passed 22 votes to…
Read the newsOn October 12, 1988, Steve Jobs introduced the NeXT Computer. We look back at the hardware, NeXTSTEP, the first web browser, id Software's work and the return of NeXT's technologies…
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On 12 October 1971, the Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar took place at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York.
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Blocking the P2X7 receptor reduced the inflammatory response in human brain tissue. The authors hope to use drugs that already exist and move on to clinical trials.
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An IT specialist using the nickname Nomad figured out why his parents' Wi-Fi was slow: the culprit was a Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker, which sent more than 1 TB…
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