Allison Murray/ZDNET Surfshark and CyberGhost are consistently ranked among the top VPNs. They are high-value yet relatively affordable VPNs, which is why most users love them. Also: NordVPN vs Surfshark One unique thing about Surfshark is that there’s no cap on the number of devices you can connect. It shares a lot with NordVPN, especially […]
How We Tested and Chose the Best Drip Coffee Machines AccordionItemContainerButton I’ve been a drip coffee fan—some might say fanatic—for quite some time, and so much of my machine selection comes from personal experience and decade-long history as a coffee writer and reporter. To broaden my selection, I listened to some of the best minds
Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access certain stem-cell treatments that have not been rigorously evaluated and approved. Under a new law that went into effect July 1, doctors in Florida can administer unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or
Summer is full of beach vacations and lounging near the pool. But if you drop your phone into water, you may be facing an expensive trip to a phone store. While many smartphones are water-resistant, that doesn’t mean they’re waterproof, so it’s still important to dry out your phone. Here are a few ways to
Standing on top of a drilling rig in the backyard of Nabors’s headquarters, I couldn’t stop thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. This industry has resources and energy expertise—but also a vested interest in fossil fuels. Can it really be part of addressing climate change? The relationship
Microsoft recently announced the General Availability (GA) of the Geo-replication feature for Azure Event Hubs, which are available in both Premium and Dedicated tiers, intended for redundancy and availability. The GA release follows the initial public preview release. Azure Event Hubs is a scalable event processing service that ingests and processes large volumes of events and data, with low latency and high reliability. With the Geo-replication feature,
The recent success of machine learning models relies on not only large-scale, but also high-quality data. The paradigm of pre-training on massive data collected on the web and post-training on smaller high-quality data is used to train both large and small language models (LMs). For large models, post-training has proven vital for aligning models to
Schlaraffenland (1567), the land of milk and honey Say we achieve abundance—what becomes of our souls? Transformative AI may soon lift us from the material constraints that have long shaped civilisation. In this essay, I explore how a species forged in struggle might fare in a world without it. I. The Utopia That Didn’t Work
Introduction Wearable devices are transforming health monitoring by enabling continuous collection of physiological and behavioral signals such as heart rate, activity, temperature, and skin conductance. However, the real-world data that these devices generate is highly prone to missingness due to sensor failures, device removal, charging, motion artifacts, battery-saving modes, and other interruptions. This presents a
Xiaomi TV Stick 4K (2nd Generation) has been listed online and now features Google TV support. The Chinese tech company listed the device silently on its official global website. However, Xiaomi has not revealed whether the successor of the first generation model will be available in India. The Xiaomi TV Stick 4K was launched in
