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Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking: A Compact MoE Model for Deep Reasoning
Baidu AI Research team has just released ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking, a new reasoning-focused large language model designed around efficiency, long-context reasoning, and tool integration. Being part of the ERNIE-4.5 family, this model is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 21B total parameters but only 3B active parameters per token, making it computationally efficient while maintaining competitive reasoning capability….
Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 (2TB) review: Convex and compact
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia doesn’t have the same kind of name recognition as its former parent company, Toshiba, which invented flash memory in…
Vibration motors: The key to compact haptic solutions
Vibration motors are the silent workhorses behind tactile feedback in wearables and handheld devices. These compact actuators convert electrical signals into physical cues, enriching user interaction. Whether you are prototyping or troubleshooting, understanding their behavior and integration is key to designing responsive, reliable hardware. Let’s start with the basics: How they generate vibration, and what…
WisMesh Board ONE Review: Compact, Expandable, Solar-Powered | 10% Discount!
If you’ve been following our Meshtastic hardware reviews, you’ve likely seen our recent coverage of the WisMesh Board ONE Pocket – RAK’s handheld Meshtastic device. Today, we’re examining the heart of that system: the WisMesh Board ONE bare board itself. Unboxing and Initial Impressions The WisMesh Board ONE arrives in simple but secure packaging. Inside,…
Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy
Scientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have re-engineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme they found in bacteria into an efficient, programmable editor of human DNA. The protein they created, called NovaIscB, can be adapted to make precise changes to the genetic code, modulate the…
This case from a newcomer is more compact and quiet than most, with six included ARGB fans
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Today’s review features a cooling newcomer I’ve just begun to become acquainted with – Ocypus, which was founded in Shenzhen in 2023. We…
Microsoft reveals 2 compact Surface devices starting well under $1,000
UPDATE: May 8, 2025, 5:20 p.m. EDT In a statement to Mashable, Microsoft confirmed that it will no longer sell the $999.99 configurations of its flagship Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 with 10-core Snapdragon X Plus processors, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. Both models were pulled from the company’s online storefront this…