Author: The Tech Guy

At $35, the Blink Mini cam is one of the most affordable home security cameras to date. In addition to its reasonable price, this power adapter-tethered indoor cam has decent features and performance, but it’s missing free cloud storage aside from a free 30-day Blink Subscription Plan.  Like Good price Solid performance Don’t like That makes the Blink Mini a fine choice if you don’t mind paying a few bucks per month for cloud storage. Another initial drawback to the camera was the fixed position view, but full 360 pan and tilt is now available with the addition of a $30 Pan-Tilt…

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Vivo introduced the X300 series this week and this year the family is smaller – there’s no mid-sized vanilla model and no “Pro mini”, just the small X300 and the big X300 Pro. Okay, there is likely an Ultra model and an FE model in the pipeline, but there’s no denying that vivo streamlined its flagship product line. vivo X300 and X300 Pro highlights Let’s start with the vivo X300 Pro – it’s very much an “X200, part 2”, if we can put it that way. Dimensity 9400 gets swapped for 9500, UFS 4.0 for 4.1, 1/1.28”…

One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Decibel Partners, Bain Future Back Ventures, MVP Ventures and 645 Ventures, comes as enterprises increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to understand customers faster and more deeply than traditional methods allow.The investment marks a sharp acceleration for the startup founded by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, two former consultants and product managers who watched companies struggle with a customer research process that could take eight…

Artificial IntelligenceSelf-Improving Language Models Are Becoming Reality With MIT’s Updated SEAL TechniqueCarl Franzen | VentureBeat”Researchers at [MIT] are gaining renewed attention for developing and open sourcing a technique that allows large language models (LLMs)—like those underpinning ChatGPT and most modern AI chatbots—to improve themselves by generating synthetic data to fine-tune upon.”Biotechnology95% of Kids With ‘Bubble Boy’ Disease Cured by One-Time Gene TherapyPaul McClure | New Atlas”The researchers followed these patients for a median of 7.5 years, totaling 474 patient-years. …The study was the largest and longest follow-up of a gene therapy of this kind to date. Importantly, all 62 children…

Last week we asked you for your thoughts on how we should reconfigure our Phone Finder tool to make it easier to find foldable phones with the right dimensions. Here’s how the voting went. The majority of people prefer that only folded dimensions are used when filtering phones based on their thickness, width and height. People had a simple reason for voting this way – most of the time, the phones stay folded. You carry them closed, of course, but with the rapid improvement of cover displays (especially on flip foldables), you can get a lot done without opening the…

Among the most popular streaming platforms, Netflix was consistently my favorite to navigate. The size of the tiles, in addition to the number, is just enough that you aren’t presented with too many options or too few. This ratio was also extended to your watch list, but the keyword here is “was.” Now that Netflix has changed one of my favorite aspects of its UI, I’ve moved my watch list to Letterboxd. I needed a good reason to create an account, but now that I’m making headway on my watch list, I’m really glad I jumped over to Letterboxd. You…

Stephen Schenck / Android AuthorityAmazon rarely undercuts its own products, but when the company quietly slipped a caveat into the FAQ for its new Colorsoft Kindle, it made one thing abundantly clear: if you care about crisp, black-and-white reading, buy something else. As someone who still acts like they’ll earn a pizza party if they read enough books, I spend a lot of time with my Kindle. Amazon’s honest take doesn’t surprise me (and won’t surprise anyone who’s read on both types of e-reader), but it’s a rare day I find myself agreeing with the company about anything. Do you…

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud measures and gen AI applications across industries. There are a deluge of options: PostgreSQL with pgvector, MySQL HeatWave, DuckDB VSS, SQLite VSS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus and several others.The riches of choices sound like a boon to companies. But just beneath, a growing problem looms: Stack instability. New vector DBs appear each quarter, with disparate APIs, indexing schemes and performance trade-offs. Today's ideal choice may look dated or limiting tomorrow.To business AI teams, volatility translates into…

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As technical education goes, few American institutions can match the prestige and influence of MIT. Of course, not every graduate is destined for greatness, as two MIT alums made clear earlier this year when they got busted for allegedly pulling a lightning-fast crypto heist, making off with an estimated $25 million. The duo — two brothers named Anton and James Peraire-Bueno — were recently indicted in a federal court on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering in what prosecutors call a “first-of-its-kind” financial crime, according to Business Insider. In…