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2025-04-28

Air Force Is Worried: B-21 Raider Bomber Has a Big Cost Problem

Until recently, all seemed to be going well with the development of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The program appeared to be on time and under budget. Workers have toiled...

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Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced

If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.

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China Will Freak: The Air Force’s B-52H Will Transform Into the B-52J Bomber

By 2035, the last of the fleet of B-52H Stratofortress bombers are scheduled to be re-engined as part of a major fleet upgrade, which will turn them into B-52Js.  The...

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Canada Has a Clear Message for the F-35 Fighter

Canada is on the verge of doing something that would confirm what its critics have long suspected: that it is no longer a serious country when it comes to national...

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AMD's RX 9000M-series mobile GPUs are rumoured to top out with an RX 9080M featuring 64 CUs and 16 GB of VRAM

The desktop cards certainly caused a splash, so what do we make of the mobile variants?

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Response Time: Vol. 44

In our latest “Response Time” interview, we ask Stephanie Smith, Manager, Customer Success at Collage, about the best customer feedback they've ever received, and more.

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Pricing AI agents: What does ‘value-based pricing’ really mean for AI?

In AI, trust and value matter – but price still rules. Value-aligned pricing is the future, but it must be fair and competitive.

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A Study on Task Design and User Interaction in VR Navigation

This section details the test methodology for evaluating avatar representation and user perspectives in VR. The study includes stages like pre-test questionnaires, calibration, task execution, and post-test interviews. Participants perform...

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Testing User Representation and Avatar Realism in VR Navigation Tasks

The study investigates VR navigation tasks using three avatar types (abstract, mesh, point cloud) and a wide-baseline Kinect sensor setup. The goal is to assess the impact of avatar realism...

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How Your Avatar Shapes Your Virtual Reality Experience

This section reviews related work on VR avatars, exploring the role of realism and perspective (first-person vs third-person) in enhancing user embodiment and spatial awareness. It also covers point cloud...

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For the Ideal VR Experience, Would You Rather See Yourself in First- or Third-Person?

This study compares first-person and third-person perspectives in VR, examining how avatar realism (from abstract to realistic) affects users' sense of embodiment, spatial awareness, and navigation tasks. The uncanny valley...

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How EIP-4844 Reduces Ethereum’s Transaction Costs with Blobs

EIP-4844 introduces "blobs" to Ethereum, reducing costs by temporarily storing rollup transaction data. This enhances scalability, making Ethereum more efficient while preserving security.

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Analyzing the Impact of Cloudflare's Disruption on Kiwi Farms Forum Activity and Web Traffic

The removal of Cloudflare’s DDoS protection triggered a surge in global search interest and forum traffic for Kiwi Farms. Despite several disruptions, including DDoS and ISP blockages, the forum recovered...

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Code Smell 297 - Syntactic Noise

Cryptic code packed with symbols creates readability and maintenance issues. Use clear naming, simplify expressions, and refactor for human-friendly code.

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The Dead Internet Theory: Will Crypto Kill or Save the Internet?

A new conspiracy theory says the Internet will be dead in 2024. The theory is based on the idea that non-human systems like Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are taking over...

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Therapist in the Weights: Risks of Hyper-Introspection in Future AI Systems

Published on April 28, 2025 6:42 AM GMTEpistemic Status: Speculative, but grounded in current trends in interpretability and self-supervised learning. This was initially written as an outline at some point...

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