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Maria Diaz/ZDNETAmazon's Big Spring Sale is in full swing and the deals just keep popping up wherever you look. The Google Nest Thermostat is one of the best ones for smart homes everywhere and one of my personal favorites, especially at just $100 on Amazon. Also: Amazon Big Spring Sale: The 85+ deals you can shop nowJust in time for the warmer months, this smart thermostat lets you control your home's temperature on the device or with just a tap on your phone, from your bed or outside your home via the Google Home…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETAmazon's Big Spring Sale is in full swing and the deals just keep popping up wherever you look. The Google Nest Thermostat is one of the best ones for smart homes everywhere and one of my personal favorites, especially at just $90 on Amazon. Also: Amazon Big Spring Sale: The 85+ deals you can shop nowJust in time for the warmer months, this smart thermostat lets you control your home's temperature on the device or with just a tap on your phone, from your bed or outside your home via the Google Home…

Explore what exactly happens behind-the-scenes in Vector DatabasesThe other day I asked my favorite Large Language Model (LLM) to help me explain vectors to my almost 4-year old. In seconds, it spit out a story filled with mythical creatures and magic and vectors. And Voila! I had a sketch for a new children’s book, and it was impressive because the unicorn was called ‘LuminaVec’.Image by the author (‘LuminaVec’ as interpreted by my almost 4-year old)So, how did the model help weave this creative magic? Well, the answer…

OSU civil engineering professor David Hill carries a snow coring device uphill near Thompson Pass, Alaska. Credit: Ryan Crumley. A heavy snowpack is fun for skiers and sledders, and it also acts like an open-air storage tank that melts away to provide water for drinking, irrigation and other purposes during dry months. But exactly how much water is…

Ben Mullinkosson is a film-maker and skateboarder from Chicago who brings an effortless, freewheeling intimacy to this immersive and sensual study of the underground club scene in Chengdu in central China. The title is enigmatic, but it seems to refer to the imminent closure of a club called Funky Town where his subjects have been hanging out; the darkness is the club’s darkness, which is enfolding and welcoming and reassuring, a neon-detailed night in which nothing matters but youth, beauty and the pleasure of the…

“I paint because I need to.” The revelation of this new documentary about Frida Kahlo (yes, another one) is the white-hot brilliance of her writing. On the voiceover, Kahlo tells her story in her own words, stitched together from letters, diaries and interviews (brought to life by Mexican stage actor Fernanda Echevarría del Rivero). The end result has a raw, thrilling intimacy.Kahlo was rebellious by nature. As a little girl she tugged on the priest’s cassock: “Was the virgin Mary really a virgin?” At college, on course…

When Josh Napravnik moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in his twenties he found a second home at a “delightfully grimy cash-only bar” one block from the state capitol. The Silver Dollar Tavern was a place where you could spend an afternoon doing crossword puzzles at the bar, the only spot in town that played Thursday Night Football, and where he and his friends invariably ended up at the end of a long night out, splitting pitchers of cheap beer.  One frigid January night, Napravnik showed up at the Silver Dollar to meet…

Nintendo A new entry in the Endless Ocean series, Endless Ocean Luminous, was revealed at the February Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. It will be available on Nintendo Switch on May 2, 2024. The final game highlighted in Nintendo’s Partner Showcase was the latest entry in the deep-sea exploration series, titled Endless Ocean Luminous. The trailer invites players to dive deep into an underwater landscape never before seen by humans called the Veiled Sea. Perhaps borrowing some rogue-lite elements, the area is said…

I was in a heavy firefight with a hoard of alien creatures. My randomly matched online friend and I were the only ones defending ourselves. The odds were not in our favour. Suddenly, a third man joins the team, dropping a turret to aid in our battle and also, giving my comrade and me some time to breathe and reload our guns. Just as I was about to share in the victorious battle with my newfound teammates, a friendly fire bullet from the turret gets me square in the chest and I am taken out. While the conclusion to this…

The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, is also India’s leading hybrid car manufacturer. And to give a boost to the sales of its strong hybrid cars in the country, the company is set to introduce a brand-new Series Hybrid System. This new strong hybrid system will be offered with cars like the upcoming Fronx hybrid, Swift, Dzire, and Baleno hybrids as well. So, being an all-new system, we thought we should explain to you how this system is different from the existing hybrid systems offered by the brand.…