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It’s time for spring cleaning, and if you’re currently looking at dirty floors, you might consider offloading some of that work to a robot. Our favorite robot vacuum and mop is currently on sale for $500, a full $300 off its normal list price, the lowest price yet for this relatively new and well-equipped device.Added to the midrange Qrevo line in late 2024, the Roborock Qrevo S boasts a modest suction power and wet mopping function. It has both bin emptying and mop washing, making cleanup and maintenance a breeze. We found it to be reliable and highly functional in…

The M4 also gives the MacBook Air its AI boost with Apple Intelligence. The 38 TOPS of local AI processing through the faster 16-core Neural Engine makes the M4 MacBook Air closer to the 48 TOPS on Intel’s Lunar Lake chips and 45 TOPS of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips.This is difficult to judge, because Apple Intelligence is very much still unfinished, but there are some new third-party apps that Apple is showcasing that use Apple Intelligence right out of the box in third-party applications, such as the note-taking app, Bear. You can now do things like automatically format text into…

The future of work is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and professionals worldwide are adapting swiftly to stay competitive in a rapidly changing landscape. As industries continue to embrace digital transformation, automation, and AI-driven technologies, the need for continuous learning and upskilling has never been more critical. To gain deeper insights into these shifts, Simplilearn’s Professional Sentiment Survey 2025 gathered responses from over 5,200 professionals across various industries, uncovering key trends in career aspirations, learning priorities, and the impact of emerging technologies. The survey results show that professionals are actively focusing on growth and understand the importance of Generative AI,…

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The phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, and it can leave people vulnerable to other infections for several weeks to months. Research has shown that it can take two to three years after a measles infection for protective immunity to fully return.“The measles virus is strongly immunosuppressive, meaning that it will interfere with the normal function of many white cells in the body that fight against other infections,” Fennelly says.One of those infections is bacterial pneumonia, which causes inflammation and fluid buildup in the lungs. About one in five people who get sick with measles in the US is hospitalized,…

Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming Assist summarization add-on for its Thunderbird email client. What makes Flower Intelligence unique, Flower Labs said in a post on X, is that it can drive on-device AI mobile, PC, and web apps that automatically hand off to a private cloud when needed (with a user’s permission). Apps default to an AI model running locally for speed and privacy but switch to Flower’s cloud when they require extra…

My masterpiece! Photograph: Adrienne SoThe process of deciding what to make can be overwhelming (especially if you’re 7), so let me offer a few guiding principles. It’s not a blender, so it’s not designed to chop hard, loose ingredients, like ice cubes or straight frozen berries. Also, in our enthusiasm, we have done things like throw handfuls of soft, fresh ingredients into the ice cream as mix-ins. That affects the texture of the soft serve and makes it a bit more crumbly and less consistent, although my family insists that they don’t mind.Overall, I would say don’t try to cheat…

After the October hearing, the families joined Pierson and Jacobsen at a Mexican restaurant. A boom mic from a documentary crew hovered above Pierson’s head. Jacobsen pulled out a suitcase from under the table, and Pierson handed out glass awards, from their foundation, honoring the families’ leadership on aviation safety. Pierson improvised a speech for each one.Chris Moore thought, well, this was unexpected. “You don’t think, oh, I can’t wait to get an award someday.” But at this point in the awful five-year battle that he never wanted, “shaking my fist at the clouds,” as he put it, a token…

The way we interact with our computers and smart devices is very different from previous years. Over the decades, human-computer interfaces have transformed, progressing from simple cardboard punch cards to keyboards and mice, and now extended reality-based AI agents that can converse with us in the same way as we do with friends. With each advance in human-computer interfaces, we’re getting closer to achieving the goal of interactions with machines, making computers more accessible and integrated with our lives. Where did it all begin? Modern computers emerged in the first half of the 20th century and relied on punch cards…

The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third state to outlaw meat grown in vats from small samples of animal cells.The Mississippi bill will make it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat in the state. Violating the law would be a misdemeanour, punishable by a fine of no more than $500 and/or up to three months in county jail. Similar laws passed last year in Florida and Alabama also carry potential jail terms or fines of up to $500.The bill now awaits the signature of Governor Tate…