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Parents urged to throw away ‘dangerous’ baby safety product used by millions

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PARENTS are being urged to throw away a ‘dangerous’ baby safety product used by millions of households every day. Power strip protectors are one of the most commonly used tools to protect children from the dangers of electric shock. New report shows power strip protectors are not safe to useSource: Getty But a report from … Read more

Do you want to save the planet from AI? Throw in an FPGA and throw away the matrix

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Large language models can be made 50 times more energy efficient with alternative mathematics and custom hardware, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz claim. In an article titled “Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling,” authors Rui-Jie Zhu, Yu Zhang, Ethan Sifferman, Tyler Sheaves, Yiqiao Wang, Dustin Richmond, Peng Zhou, and Jason Eshraghian describe how to … Read more

I am a strict mother: I throw away toys if they are left on the floor

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A ‘super strict’ mother prides herself on being the boss in her household, by making her children live under strict rules. Elena Leeming from York only lets her children watch television once a week and even throws away their toys if they are left outside – no matter how expensive. Clive, six, and Violet, five, … Read more

To kill the competition, bacteria throw bits of dead viruses at them

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Enlarge / This is an intact phage. A tailocin looks like one with the head cut off. Long before people became interested in killing bacteria, viruses were already at work. Viruses that attack bacteria, called “phages” (short for bacteriophage), were first identified by their ability to create bare spots on the surface of culture plates … Read more

British expats throw shade at the Tories under the Spanish sun

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The Mediterranean twilight casts a glow on the rugged mountains of the Sierra de los Filabres as temperatures drop enough for Spaniards to venture outside. However, about seventy Britons have already been at it for an hour, crammed together for a quiz night in a roadside bar. “By what name is the born British singer … Read more

Optoma launches new ultra-short throw laser projector for games and home entertainment

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The better the game graphics become, the more fun it is to game on large screens. And the more the market for big-screen movie and gaming experiences grows, the more attractive ultra-short throw projectors become, because you can enjoy images bigger than any TV can handle, at a fraction of the price (and the weight!) … Read more