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Trump Has Paused an Order That Would Have Made Shein and Temu Purchases More Expensive
After a brief scare on February 4, the USPS has lifted the world’s shortest shipping suspension, confirming that it will continue to deliver packages from China and Hong Kong to the U.S., although those packages might still get more expensive soon. The news follows a temporary halt on Chinese parcels resulting from President Trump’s February 1 executive order that applied…
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Expensive Gaming Handhelds Have a Cheap Weak Point, But Not for Long
Summary Analog sticks are a common point of failure on controllers, and that includes the ones built into handhelds from manufacturers like Valve and Asus. You can mitigate the problem by recalibrating your sticks for a quick remedy, but a permanent fix involves replacing the sticks by performing surgery on your handheld. Upgrading to Hall Effect sticks, which are far…
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Forget Expensive GPUs, Some Console Games Came With Their Own Graphics Chip
Summary 16-bit consoles excelled at 2D graphics, offering large sprites, complex animations, and vibrant colors. 32-bit consoles marked a shift to 3D rendering, leaving behind 2D graphic powerhouses like the SNES and Genesis. Nintendo’s Super FX chip and Sega’s Virtua Processor enhanced specific games with unique capabilities, but increased costs. It’s easy to be cynical about the cost of gaming…
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Your Verizon Bill Just Got a Little More Expensive
If you pay close attention to your Verizon bill this month, next to the nebulous “Administrative and Telco Recovery Charge,” you’ll notice that you’re paying 20 cents more per voice and data line than before, as confirmed by Verizon spokesperson Greg Koroneos to The Verge. The increase, meager as it seems on the surface, takes the total administrative fee for…
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Forget expensive, power-hungry LLMs models, 2025 will be the year where small language models hit the mainstream
Small language models (SLMs) could hit the mainstream in 2025, according to analysts, as enterprises look to speed up training times, lower carbon emissions, and bolster security. While much of the generative AI boom has focused on LLMs and an industry arms race to create more powerful models, Isabel Al-Dhahir, principal analyst at GlobalData, believes the appeal of leaner options…
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt rejects claims Al scaling has peaked – but firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are finding it harder and more expensive to deliver
How can the large language models (LLMs) driving the generative AI boom keep getting better? That’s the question driving a debate around so-called scaling laws — and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt isn’t concerned. Scaling laws refer to how the accuracy and quality of a deep-learning model improves with size — bigger is better when it comes to the model…
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