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Venmo on Monday introduced a new rewards program, Venmo Stash, offering cash back to customers who transact with their favorite brands on the payments app and engage with Venmo’s products. While cashback rewards are a common incentive for credit cards, Venmo’s rewards — which can be up to 5% — are returned to Venmo’s Mastercard Debit Card. The program is designed to incentivize continued use of Venmo’s service by bringing more funds into the ecosystem, the company explains. However, this program also represents a new way that today’s brands are attempting to reach younger users, many of whom have shown…

The Lava Agni 4 will become official on November 20. Ahead of that, the brand has been engaging in a full-on teaser campaign, already revealing that the phone has a metal frame, a glass back, and two rear cameras. We also know that the Agni 3’s rear screen is gone, and that there’s an LED light strip around the camera module. Now, Lava has also revealed that the Agni 4 has a 6.67-inch AMOLED screen with 1.15mm narrow bezels on all sides. The panel has “1.5K” resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a peak brightness of 2,400 nits. There will…

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture also allows developers to extend that support to thousands more. Through a feature called zero-shot in-context learning, users can provide a few paired examples of audio and text in a new language at inference time, enabling the model to transcribe additional utterances in that language without any retraining.In practice, this expands potential coverage to more than 5,400 languages — roughly every spoken language with a known script.It’s a shift from static model…

Researchers at the University of Nottingham say they’ve come up with a new type of gel that can repair and rebuild tooth enamel — a potentially game-changing treatment, since dentistry today is largely limited to preventative care and halting the progress of decay, rather than reversing it. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the protein-based gel uses the human body’s natural growth processes from early in life to form a durable coating and fill in small cavities in teeth. After being coated on a target tooth’s surface, it extracts calcium and phosphate ions from…

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. Anno 117: Pax Romana is a marked return to simplicity for the long-running city-building strategy game franchise. Some returning fans might find what it offers a little basic, but for others, the more relaxed progression will be a welcome, more relaxed change of pace – especially paired with the countless quality of life features that are available from day one.Review infoPlatform reviewed: PCAvailable on: PS5, Xbox Series X and…

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean themselves off dependence on OpenAI and other closed-source AI providers.The San Francisco-based company announced Thursday the general availability of Baseten Training, an infrastructure platform designed to help companies fine-tune open-source AI models without the operational headaches of managing GPU clusters, multi-node orchestration, or cloud capacity planning. The move is a calculated expansion beyond Baseten's core inference business, driven by what CEO Amir Haghighat describes as relentless customer demand and a…

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android AuthorityTL;DR Samsung has opened the One UI 8 Watch beta for the Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro. The update was revealed in a Korean community post, with the US rollout expected to follow soon. Only the Watch 7 and Ultra have received stable One UI 8 so far, while other models remain in beta. Samsung’s slow-moving One UI 8 Watch rollout is taking another step forward. After months of testing on newer models, the Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro have finally been added to the beta program, giving the 2022 smartwatches a…

As cloud project tracking software monday.com’s engineering organization scaled past 500 developers, the team began to feel the strain of its own success. Product lines were multiplying, microservices proliferating, and code was flowing faster than human reviewers could keep up. The company needed a way to review thousands of pull requests each month without drowning developers in tedium — or letting quality slip.That’s when Guy Regev, VP of R&D and head of the Growth and monday Dev teams, started experimenting with a new AI tool from Qodo, an Israeli startup focused on developer agents. What began as a lightweight test…

Todays Blue Origin launch scrubbed due to weather. They delayed over 60 minutes from the start of the launch window. Launch window today 2:45PM EST to 4:44PM EST (19:45-21:44 UTC) They are fully loaded with propellant. New Glenn launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission. It is one year late.It will hang out a few months at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2.When Mars swings around in its orbit then it will fire engines to meet up with Mars. Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.Target orbit: Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2Booster: SN002 “Never Tell Me The Odds”It is a new booster…

Android 16 is finally arriving on the OnePlus 12, rolling out first in India as OxygenOS 16, with more regions lined up next. The rollout’s happening in waves, so don’t stress if it hasn’t arrived just yet. So for now, Indian users can look for build CPH2573_16.0.0.201(EX01). As GSMArena notes, OnePlus is pushing the update in batches, which is the company’s usual approach. Some phones are getting it today, others over the next few days, with the staggered rollout helping to catch any last-minute bugs before it reaches more markets. The changelog runs long, but the main point is that…