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Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Review: Great Value Gaming

It's AMD's turn. After months of $2,000+ GPUs and long discussions of DLSS, we're finally on the red team's turf. AMD's strength historically lies at the budget end of the spectrum, where the majority of gamers are playing at 1080p, and spending $1,000 or less for their entire system. Even though we really recommend splurging on a GPU, that's just not the reality for most folks. An $800 GPU needs $1,200 in other parts, and at that point most people who aren't into PC gaming will start shopping

Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard

Bento What is Bento? Bento is a computer. Its name come from it's distinctly bento box look, and it takes inspiration from the Comodore 64, and the many creations on r/cyberdeck. It fit perfectly underneath a keyboard, which acts as a lid! Giving you easy access to the internals, as well as a compartment to store various small peripherals. There is no display This is key. Bento is meant to be used with an external display, particularly spatial displays like the XREAL One’s, but obviously it

MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

1. Model Overview We introduce MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. MiniMax-M1 is powered by a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture combined with a lightning attention mechanism. The model is developed based on our previous MiniMax-Text-01 model, which contains a total of 456 billion parameters with 45.9 billion parameters activated per token. Consistent with MiniMax-Text-01, the M1 model natively supports a context length of 1 million

Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

Sword Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised $40 million at a $4 billion valuation, a 33% jump from the $3 billion price tag it earned just a year ago. The funding was led by returning investor, General Catalyst. Even though 10-year-old Sword Health is cash-flow positive, its CEO and founder, Virgílio Bento, told TechCrunch that he opted to raise additional capital for two key reasons: to update the company’s valuation, and have funds readily available for strategic acquisitio

Benzene at 200

In 1825, Michael Faraday discovered one of the most fascinating compounds in chemistry: benzene. While isolating the components of oily residues of illuminating gas, Faraday identified a mysterious liquid, with a peculiar aromatic smell, which would go on to transform the landscape of chemistry. Within the pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Faraday described this seemingly simple yet profoundly unique molecule. What set benzene apart, even in its earliest di

This MagSafe accessory just duped the most premium wallet I've tried for $30

ZDNET's key takeaways The Benks ArmorGo Magnetic Wallet and Stand is on sale for $30. It holds up to three cards, has a rotatable stand, is RFID blocking and extra durable. It's a great value competitor, but doesn't hold more than a few cards. $29.69 at Amazon It's not magic … it's MagSafe. From MagSafe batteries to MagSafe wallets, there are so many options out there to level up your phone. Also: 7 MagSafe accessories that I recommend every iPhone user should have As ZDNET's primary MagSaf

Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

Benchmark corpus To compile our benchmark corpus, we utilized a broad list of sources (Methods), ranging from completely novel, manually crafted questions over university exams to semi-automatically generated questions based on curated subsets of data in chemical databases. For quality assurance, all questions have been reviewed by at least two scientists in addition to the original curator and automated checks. Importantly, our large pool of questions encompasses a wide range of topics and que

Layoff Anxiety Is Real. 10 Steps to Take Now Before You Lose Your Job

With employers downsizing and slashing budgets, fear of layoffs is rapidly escalating among workers. Tharon Green/CNET Workers across all industries are bracing for a challenging economy and a brutal job market. According to a survey by Indeed, nearly half (46%) of US employees are concerned about layoffs in the next year. The Trump administration's cuts across federal agencies, health organizations and nonprofits have led to hundreds of thousands of layoffs. As employers reduce personnel and

Best Internet Providers in Bend, Oregon

What is the best internet provider in Bend? Bend may lack variety in internet providers, but after careful research, CNET believes TDS Broadband is the top choice in Bend, Oregon. It offers the fastest speeds in the area, reliable service and a range of plans to fit different needs. If your need for speed is a bit more moderate, T-Mobile 5G Home Internet is a solid backup choice, thanks to its affordability. The Rely Home Internet plan gets you speeds up to 318Mbps for $40 a month ($35 when bu

Nvidia Arm chip surfaces with strong Geekbench scores, could rival top Intel and AMD laptop CPUs

Something to look forward to: A mysterious "Nvidia N1x" Arm processor recently appeared on Geekbench with a single-core score of 3,096 and an 18,837 multi-core score. The result provides some of the earliest concrete evidence of Nvidia's long-rumored upcoming SoC. Word is that Nvidia has been developing an Arm-based processor for the past few years. Despite a teaser released last year in collaboration with Dell and the January unveiling of Nvidia's Arm workstation, a consumer-level product has

F1 may ditch hybrids for V10s and sustainable fuels

High-revving naturally aspirated engines and their associated screaming soundtracks might be on their way back to Formula 1. Not with next year's rule changes—that will see even bigger lithium-ion batteries and an even more powerful electric motor, paired with a turbocharged V6. But the sport is starting to think more seriously about the technical rules that will go into effect in 2030, and in an Instagram post yesterday, the man in charge of those rules signaled that he's open to cars that migh

Despite recent layoffs, Meta is expanding in India

Meta made headlines last month for announcing plans to cut 5% of its employees, controversially deeming them “low performers.” But the job cuts aren’t holding Meta back from expanding in certain geographic areas. Meta is setting up a new site in the country’s tech hub of Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), multiple Meta employees posted on LinkedIn this month. Meta is currently hiring for 41 positions there, according to its careers webpage, most of which were posted over the last month.