Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro: Benchmark performance, how to try it

Google says that its most advanced thinking model yet outperforms Claude and ChatGPT on Humanity's Last Exam and other key ...
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How to Catch Three Fish Without Using a Fishing Rod for Hunting Challenge 8

This page takes you through How to Catch Three Fish Without Using a Fishing Rod for the eighth of the Master Hunter Challenges in Red Dead Redemption 2. Fish are found in almost every body of water in ...

AI Nailed The ‘Will Smith Eating Spaghetti’ Test—What Comes Next?

Bytedance’s video generation model Seedance 2.0 passed the ‘Will Smith eating spaghetti’ test with flying colors, a ...
Consumer Reports

How to Use Ice Melt Without Damaging Outdoor Surfaces, Plantings, and Your Pet's Paws

Blue Heat, Safe-T-Salt, Snow Joe, Ice Slicer. These snappy brand names are pretty much all you have to go on when choosing an ice melt, leaving no sign of whether they’ll damage the concrete, harm ...
The New York Times

E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency will ...

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Android 16 test build adds smarter connection switching for your Pixel

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 turns Adaptive Connectivity into two switches, one for mobile fallback and one for battery optimization, so Pixel owners can better balance flaky Wi-Fi, data use, and power. The ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...
CNET

Microsoft Issues New Security Warning for Windows 10. Here's What You Need to Do

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...
Chromatography Online

The LCGC Blog: No Column to Rule Them All — Making Sense of Metal Speciation with Liquid Chromatography

In this month's LCGC Blog, Hayley Brawley and Alexia Kreinbrink explore the challenges facing chromatographers when exploring the complex world of metal speciation. Studying metals in biology is much ...