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Samsung is looking to boost its game-streaming ecosystem for its smart TVs with a certification program. Ahead of CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the company today unveiled Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub, which gives third-party accessory makers an official designation that their gear works with the platform. The program’s first licensed gamepad, from PDP, is available for pre-order.Hardware partners who work with Samsung on the program will add a “Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub” badge to their products. Although Samsung Gaming…

During his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to not certify the election’s results, according to phone recordings obtained by The Detroit News. “We’ve got to fight for our country,” Trump told the canvassers on a Nov. 17, 2020 call that also included Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, according to the report. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”  The two canvassers, William…

SAE has voted unanimously to form a task force to expedite its NACS standardization process, and thinks that this process could finish by the end of the year – much earlier than we expected. We spoke with the chair of the task force for some insight on what the process might look like. Tesla released specifications of its charging connector in November 2022. It called it the “North American Charging Standard,” which was somewhat of an absurd name at the time, given that Tesla was the only…

Los Alamos, New Mexico—Behind a guard shack and warning signs on the sprawling campus of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a forested spot where scientists mimic the first moments of a nuclear detonation. Here, in the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility, they blow up models of the bowling ball–size spheres of plutonium, or “pits,” at the heart of bombs—and take x-ray pictures of the results. In a real weapon,…

Ecochoice Naturals, a Bengaluru-based agricultural startup, has launched a mobile application with the Centre for Sustainable development to connect organic farmers with institutional buyers. The Raitha Sahayak app, as it is called, uses a quality assessment report and grading system with no service charge to the user.The app uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to generate the report within 30 seconds, the startup said in a statement. The technology was showcased at the Bangalore Tech Summit, The…

YouTube said on Thursday that doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels certified, in a push to limit misinformation on the site. The change will allow viewers to more easily access videos containing "high-quality health information," YouTube said. "This is a big step towards helping people more easily find and connect with content that comes from the extraordinary community of healthcare professionals on YouTube," the service added.In addition to doctors and nurses,…

Photo: NOAH BERGER/AFP (Getty Images)Students trying to complete last minute term papers may feel a little bit better trawling through Wikipedia for their midnight “research.” Meta announced a new artificial intelligence model that researchers claim can help make Wikipedia entries more accurate.As first reported by TechCrunch, Meta’s new open source AI may be how the company—notablyknown for its issues with content moderation—better finds and snuffs out fake news or disinformation. The company’s AI team released a blog…