A cheaper YouTube Premium plan is coming ‘soon’ for users in the US
At the time, Premium Lite was only available to a limited number of users in Australia, Germany, and Thailand.
Video Friday: Helix
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Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed
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Eufy’s latest smart lock is literally a palm reader
The technology is pretty cool, with the integrated reader using near-infrared light to scan the “sub veins” of your palm.
I reluctantly tried a $700 office chair. One feature made me a believer
Jon Martindale is a voracious writer and technology fanboy who loves nothing more than digging into the specs of the latest graphics cards, processors, and displays.
This business-grade security cam is a strong home contender, too
If you prioritize performance over aesthetics, the Annke CPT500 delivers strong video quality, smart tracking, and flexible installation options that make it a solid choice for both commercial and home security setups.
Microsoft 365: A guide to the updates
The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in Outlook that caused default SMIME labels to fail to apply when a user replied to or forwarded an unlabeled message, and one for the entire suite in which people couldn’t install Microsoft 365 apps on an enrolled device.
NXP Acquires AI Chip Startup Kinara
“The immediate plan is to support Kinara’s existing products as well as their own NPU roadmap and match it up with our processor portfolio in a discrete fashion…we’ll take our time to learn from customers and the use cases they deploy to see what might drive a tighter integration into a SoC, if at all.”
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere
“The development of core actuation technologies with high power, low weight, and advanced control has been a key enabler in our efforts,” says Nikos Tsagarakis, head of the HHCM Lab at IIT.
How fast can your USB cable move data? Use this formula to find out
Buying an expensive, “fast” USB cable only to find that it chugs along like a steam train when transferring data can be highly disappointing.
Whoa! Get this Asus Chromebook with 8GB RAM for just $109
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Windows PowerToys: Your handy productivity toolbox
The controls are dead simple, and the app provides standard user or administrative access to Profiles, Default, System, and Applied variables in the Windows environment, as shown in Figure 7.