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The first winner of the Red Bull Tetris tournament has been revealedThe event saw 2,800 drones create a light-based Tetris board in the skyTurkey’s Fehmi Atalar took home the trophy in this year’s contestThink you’re good at Tetris? How about if you had to play it on an enormous scale using 2,800 drones illuminated with RGB lights? That’s a whole different ball game, yet that’s exactly what the inaugural Red Bull Tetris tournament was all about, and the winner has just been revealed at the event in Dubai.The occasion took place at the Dubai Frame monument and featured a huge…
Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text. To tap into that niche — and make it practical at scale — the Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) introduced Bolmo, a new family of models that leverage its Olmo 3 models by “bytefiying” them and reusing their backbone and capabilities. The company launched two versions, Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, which are “the first fully open byte-level language model,” according to Ai2. The company said the two models performed competitively with — and in some cases surpassed —…
It’s not news to anyone that there are concerns about AI’s rising energy bill. But a new analysis shows the latest reasoning models are substantially more energy intensive than previous generations, raising the prospect that AI’s energy requirements and carbon footprint could grow faster than expected.As AI tools become an ever more common fixture in our lives, concerns are growing about the amount of electricity required to run them. While worries first focused on the huge costs of training large models, today much of the sector’s energy demand is from responding to users’ queries.And a new analysis from researchers at…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Leica M EV1: two-minute reviewThe Leica M EV1 concept is polarizing: strip out the optical rangefinder that Leica M cameras have been famed for for over 70 years, and replace it with an electronic viewfinder (EVF).It’s yet another example of Leica tweaking and evolving its tried and tested rangefinder series design, however, and another reason that the oldest active lens mount still in production today has many years of…
2025 is nearly over and we’re ready to call the hits and misses of the year in TV, starting with the misses. A lot of high-profile shows aired in 2025, both old favorites returning for another season and brand new series out to prove themselves. In this article, we’ll talk about the ones that didn’t. We’ll talk about the shows that returned but didn’t meet expectations. We’re not saying all of these shows are terrible or even that bad, just that they let us down for one reason or another. IT: Welcome to Derry IT? More like… IT: Welcome to…
Redmi started teasing the global Note 15 5G a few days ago, first confirming its 108MP main camera, then its 5,520 mAh battery with 45W wired charging support. Now there’s a new reveal, and this time we get one of the most important specs: the chipset powering the device. The Redmi Note 15 5G will use the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC, which was quietly unveiled in September. If you’re familiar with the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, this is really similar. The Snapdragon 6 Gen 3’s CPU has four Cortex-A78 cores clocked at up to 2.4GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores…
Presented by TwilioThe customer data infrastructure powering most enterprises was architected for a world that no longer exists: one where marketing interactions could be captured and processed in batches, where campaign timing was measured in days (not milliseconds), and where "personalization" meant inserting a first name into an email template.Conversational AI has shattered those assumptions.AI agents need to know what a customer just said, the tone they used, their emotional state, and their complete history with a brand instantly to provide relevant guidance and effective resolution. This fast-moving stream of conversational signals (tone, urgency, intent, sentiment) represents a fundamentally different…
Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video shows. The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows. At least, that was the idea. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the AI tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of a hit show, suffering from the common shortcomings of the tech we’ve become all too familiar with. As GamesRadar reports, the recap of Season 1 for the company’s popular…
For anyone looking to buy their first VR headset as a gift this Christmas, or to upgrade to something newer, this deal on the Meta Quest 3 is well worth getting. For those who are yet to be introduced to the wonderful world of Meta’s VR, this $407.10 Meta Quest 3 512GB bundle (was $499.99) could bring lots of holiday joy. This includes a three-month trial of Meta Horizon Plus (the company’s flagship VR platform), where you can enjoy over 40 games, helping you to get the most out of the device right from the off. Save over $90 on…
RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook website to continue using the popular messaging service. Though originally launched at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Messenger’s desktop app couldn’t handle as many video call participants as business-focused rivals like Zoom, and didn’t offer screensharing or easy-to-share URLs. The writing was on the wall for the app’s declining importance to Meta, even before the company announced its shutdown plans this October. In 2023, Facebook…