LG’s Stage 501 party speaker uses AI to remove vocals for karaoke
TL;DR LG announced the Xboom Stage 501, a party speaker developed with Will.i.am that uses an “AI Karaoke Master” to…
OpenAI Bets Heavily on Audio While Silicon Valley Moves Beyond Screens
TL;DR OpenAI has reorganized multiple teams to accelerate development of new audio models and is preparing an audio-first personal device,…
Autism diagnoses rose as criteria broadened, not due to higher severe prevalence
TL;DR An analysis of CDC ADDM data from 2000–2016 found the increase in autism diagnoses was concentrated among children with…
How Cameras and Lenses Capture Light: From Sensors to Pinhole
TL;DR This report summarizes a primer on how modern digital cameras form images, starting from light detection on a sensor…
OnePlus 15 vs Pixel 10 Pro XL clash challenges online consensus
TL;DR Android Police published a video by Ryan-Thomas Shaw that pits the OnePlus 15 against the Pixel 10 Pro XL…
Python Performance and Memory: Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
TL;DR A set of microbenchmarks and memory measurements for CPython 3.14.2 on an M4 Pro Mac Mini shows common operation…
Datastar Hypermedia Framework: Common Lisp SDK Implementation
TL;DR A Common Lisp implementation of the Datastar SDK is available, implementing core SDK features while adapting the Datastar ADR…
Implementing Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) Vector Search in PHP
TL;DR The article explains how HNSW converts brute-force vector comparisons into a multi-level graph search to speed nearest-neighbor lookups, and…
PS5 ROM keys leaked — BootROM codes could ease future jailbreaking
TL;DR Hex strings reported to be PlayStation 5 ROM keys have surfaced, potentially giving researchers the hardware data needed to…