There are countless reasons why home robots have found little success post-Roomba. Pricing, practicality, form factor and mapping have all contributed to failure after failure. Even when some or all of those are addressed, there remains the question of what happens when a system makes an inevitable mistake. This has been a point of friction […]
Rampant Portugal Thrash Sweden Without Cristiano Ronaldo
Roberto Martinez’s Portugal dismantled Sweden 5-2 in a friendly ahead of this summer’s European Championships without talisman striker Cristiano Ronaldo. The former Real Madrid and Manchester United hitman, 39, was rested by Martinez but his team strolled to an easy victory regardless in Guimaraes. Rafael Leao, Matheus Nunes and Bruno Fernandes all struck for the […]
Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
Users of the popular site Glassdoor, which lets anyone anonymously sign up to review companies they have worked for, say Glassdoor collected and added their names to their user profiles without their consent. One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city […]
Kevin McCullar Jr. injury update: Why Kansas will be without leading scorer for March Madness
As Kansas targets a fifth national championship, it will have to do so without leading scorer Kevin McCullar Jr. The Jayhawks ruled McCullar out for the entire NCAA Tournament with a knee injury, according to Jordan Guskey of The Topeka Capital-Journal. Bill Self said Kevin McCullar Jr. has been ruled out of the NCAA tournament#kubball — Jordan […]
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model” on GitHub. In a blog post, xAI said that the model wasn’t tuned for any particular application such as using it for conversations. The company noted that […]