NVIDIA opens the weights for Nemotron 3 Diarization to label voices
The model labels audio by voice, distinguishes up to eight participants, works both in streaming and on pre-recorded audio, and the weights can be run locally.
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On this day: Torres y Quevedo’s ‘Telekino’ and a boat with no crew on board
On 25 September 1906, in the port of Bilbao, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo steered the boat 'Vizcaya' from the shore by radio: the signal reached two kilometers, and there were…
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Canonical merges Ubuntu kernel cycles: releases every week
Canonical is moving to a single two-week Ubuntu kernel security cycle instead of the previous four-week and two-week ones. Because the cycles overlap, releases now come out every week.
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Nevermind Turns 35: How Nirvana’s Second Album Changed Music
On September 24, 1991, Nirvana released Nevermind — the band's second album, its first on a major label and its first with Dave Grohl. The record's polished sound made it…
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iFixit on Steam Frame: repairable, but the fan is buried too deep
iFixit tore down Valve's Steam Frame headset: the design is broadly repairable, but the fan is tucked away so deep that even dusting it out requires serious surgery.
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Meta VR Glasses weighing about 100 grams: sensors and display in the frame, computing and battery in a separate "puck" block. A 5K micro-OLED screen, gaze and gesture control, on…
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Xbox cuts 268 roles and consolidates studios
Microsoft continues its Xbox restructuring: 268 roles cut, Rare, World's Edge and Obsidian moving to other divisions, and consultations about closing Ninja Theory.
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On This Day: Gerolamo Cardano — Physician, Mathematician and Gambler
On 24 September 1501, Gerolamo Cardano was born in Pavia: a physician and mathematician who was the first in Europe to use negative numbers systematically, and whose gambling did much…
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Qualcomm launches its first 2nm mobile chips: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6
Two new flagship Qualcomm chips are the company's first built on TSMC's 2nm process: Oryon cores up to 5 GHz and a Hexagon neural unit for on-device AI models with…
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Astronomers detect radio emission from an exoplanet for the first time — the giant planet β Pictoris b
Polar radio bursts from β Pictoris b have been recorded with the MeerKAT array: for the first time, radio emission is unambiguously linked to the planet itself rather than to…
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The Human Brain Turns Out to Be Two Separate Organs, Stanford Medicine Finds
A Stanford Medicine study has shown that the forebrain and the brainstem develop from different progenitor cells and never intersect. This explains why for decades researchers could not grow hindbrain…
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Anthropic released a guide to Opus 5.5: don’t micromanage the model
A practical guide to Opus 5.5 advises describing the whole task in a single message and naming the finish line right away — after that, the model works on its…
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