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Logitech Astro A50 X Review: Ditching All Your Dongles Means Dealing with a Mess of Wires
The initial pitch for the $750 Logitech Astro A50 X Lightspeed headset sounds like an infomercial. It’s as if a revived, gamer-ified Billy Mays made a 30-second TV pitch sounding off: “Are you tired of shoving all those dongles in your consoles? Do you hate that it’s so hard to use the same headset across…
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An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images
An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals. The report, put together by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, says that LAION-5B, a massive tranche of visual media, includes a significant number of illegal abuse…
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OpenAI’s New Board Members Are Now the Boss of Sam Altman (If They Want to Be)
OpenAI’s Board has the final say in unleashing superhuman AI, but this board is a lot friendlier to Altman.
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Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web
A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration. While the…