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Living in the Midwest means unpredictable weather, and to stay on top of droughts, I plan on using this smart sprinkler. It allows you to tailor your watering routine with five frequency options — every day, odd days, even days, interval (every 2-30 days), and custom (every Monday, etc.) — to perfectly suit your gardening…

Stalker 2 is getting its first DLC, titled Cost of Hope, this summer. The expansion and its general release window was announced during today’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase. It’s been more than a year since the base game finally released, closing a long development cycle that was disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where the…

Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. As always, we’ve got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I’ll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in Fortnite or Jetpack Cat in Overwatch long enough to check more of them out. Thanks to the…

Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It…

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT “in the coming weeks.” In a blog post published Friday, the company said adult users in the US of its free and Go tiers (more on the latter in a moment) would start seeing sponsored products and services appear below their conversations with its chatbot. “Ads…

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