“I’ve tried different brands of hearing aids, and they’re good, but they’re not this good,” says Martin in a Zoom interview. He visited the team in Soho, did the street test, and was delighted when he tried it with his wife and daughter at their favorite restaurant, with de... Read more

Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning. The framework uses a two-stage process. It first refines a base model with a curated dataset in a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Then, a... Read more

Paddy Power has announced that it will continue to sponsor the PDC World Darts Championship through until 2031. The bookmaker began sponsoring the biggest event in professional darts ahead of the 2023 edition, following on from names such as Cazoo, William Hill and Ladbrokes throughout the years. @paddypower will... Read more

The name says it all: These easy self-watering planters are designed for those who have trouble remembering to water small or large indoor plants. I’ve always had trouble with larger plants, but this system has kept my fiddle-leaf fig green and healthy for over a year.  The simple design... Read more

“Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X a couple of days before he livestreamed himself consuming a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms at a psilocybin center in Oregon on Sunday. It marked the second act of his stunty new investigation into... Read more

Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous drones to enterprise cloud systems, marking a major escalation in the company's challenge to both U.S. tech giants... Read more

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) and Professional Footballers Association Canada (PFA Canada) have announced a preventive training program to safeguard against potential match-fixing and betting breaches. The Canadian Soccer Players’ Association has announced the successful completion of a second year of training for the professional football league’s anti-fraud... Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It was a bit tricky, especially 1-Down, which mentioned... Read more

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet. Russia’s military has been silent on... Read more

Vector databases emerged as a must-have technology foundation at the beginning of the modern gen AI era.  What has changed over the last year, however, is that vectors, the numerical representations of data used by LLMs, have increasingly become just another data type in all manner of different databases.... Read more