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The best smart LED light bulbs for 2025
Smart LED light bulbs are one of the easiest ways to get into the IoT space. These smart lighting solutions let you control your home’s illumination from your phone and other connected devices, and in addition to that practicality, they also inject some fun into your space. Color-changing bulbs have a plethora of RGB options…
The iPhone Air is so light, I forgot it was in my pocket | TechCrunch
After using the iPhone Air for the past 10 days, I can confirm what everyone’s been wondering: Yes, it really is that light and thin. But what’s more interesting is whether Apple’s thinnest phone ever, at just 5.64 millimeters, is worth the trade-offs it demands. I have used the iPhone 15 Pro Max as a…
Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values? | CSS-Tricks
One of the newer CSS features that has piqued my interest: the light-dark() function. And I’ve been closely following it ever since it became Baseline back in May 2024. The light-dark() function, briefly If you don’t know, the light-dark() function takes two color arguments: one for light mode and one for dark mode. Hence, the name light-dark(). It toggles between…
007 First Light preview: IO Interactive was born for this
For its next game, IO Interactive is swapping the hitman for the spy for a venture that it no doubt hopes will leave you shaken and stirred. Last month, Polygon was invited, alongside other journalists and creators, to a trip to IO Interactive’s studio in Copenhagen, where we got a first look at 007 First…
Nvidia outlines plans for using light for communication between AI GPUs by 2026 — silicon photonics and co-packaged optics may become mandatory for next-gen AI data centers
The extreme demands of passing communication between ever-growing clusters of AI GPUs is fueling a move towards using light for communication across the networking layers. Earlier this year, Nvidia outlined that its next-generation rack-scale AI platforms will use silicon photonics interconnects with co-packaged optics (CPO) for higher transfer rates at lower power. At the Hot…
Disassembling a LED-based light that’s not acting quite right…right?
A few months back, I came across an LED-based desk lamp queued up to go out to the trash. When I asked my wife about it, she said (or at least my recollection is that she said) that it had gone dim, so she’d replaced it with another one. But the device didn’t include any…
Automatic Evening Light With Cut-Off Timer
Designing a circuit to switch on a light at dusk and off at dawn is straightforward, and many such designs have been featured in EFY. However, lights controlled this way remain on all night, resulting in wasted electricity and reduced lamp lifespan. In most homes and business premises, outdoor lights are turned on at dusk…
Engadget review recap: Surface Pro, Rivian, Canon, Light Phone and more
I can’t blame you if you’ve been spending more time outside lately instead of reading gadget reviews. Spring has sprung, at least for us at Engadget HQ in the US, and there’s a lot of touching grass going on amongst our staff. Still, if you’ve missed any of our reviews over the last two weeks,…
Forward-thinking CISOs are shining a light on shadow IT – Help Net Security
In this Help Net Security interview, Curtis Simpson, CISO and Chief Advocacy Officer at Armis, discusses how CISOs can balance security and innovation while managing the risks of shadow IT. Rather than focusing on restrictive policies, fostering proactive partnerships with business leaders to identify secure alternatives for unsanctioned tools is essential. Simpson also discusses common…
Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models
Technologies Published 31 July 2024 Authors Language Model Interpretability team Announcing a comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for language model interpretability. To create an artificial intelligence (AI) language model, researchers build a system that learns from vast amounts of data without human guidance. As a result, the inner workings of language models are often…
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