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The best gaming handhelds for 2025

Engadget

With its Intel Core Ultra 7-258V chip and 32GB of RAM, it typically pumped out 10 to 15 percent higher frame rates than other high-end models like the Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go in our testing. Battery life is relatively strong, while its 8-inch 120Hz IPS display is plenty bright and supports VRR.

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Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

The Verge

The comparison is a troubling euphemism for a company whose workers have almost double the amount of serious injuries as the rest of the warehousing industry and who reportedly are often unable to take bathroom breaks. Amazon’s 2020 injury rates are an improvement from years past.

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Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro review: Rising above the boring competition

Engadget

That's up from the IP54 rating on the 2a. It's still an FHD panel with a variable refresh rate that goes up to 120Hz. It's fast, vibrant and, thanks to a new 480Hz sampling rate, highly responsive. Both are big handsets, and the texture made for a secure grip anytime I took one of them out of my pocket.

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Bang and Olufsen’s first Bluetooth 5.2 speaker has 27 hours of battery life

The Verge

Bang and Olufsen’s latest Bluetooth speaker is the Beosound Explore, a $199 (£169) speaker that’s rated to run for 27 hours “at typical listening volumes” before needing a charge. That’s an impressive amount of battery life for a small (roughly 5 x 3 x 3 inch) Bluetooth speaker like this. Image: Bang and Olufsen.

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AppWorks closes third fund with $150M for Taiwan and Southeast Asia startups

TechCrunch

AppWorks Fund III’s limited partners include Taiwan Mobile, Axiom Asia Private Capital, Fubon Life, TransGlobe Life, Hongtai Group, Wistron, Cathay Life, Phison Electronics and Taiwan’s National Development Fund. Fund II also achieved internal rate of return (IRR) of 34.7%, compared to 26.1% for the other funds.

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How does Valve’s Steam Deck compare to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5?

The Verge

While the base eMMC storage configuration could potentially mean slower game installs and load times, Valve promises that “there is no in-game difference in frame rates or graphics quality” among the three models. The Switch does win out in battery life, though, with 4.5 Image: Valve. Images: Valve. teraflops) and the PS4 (1.8

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Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge

Google Research AI blog

The field of machine unlearning is related to other areas of machine learning such as differential privacy , life-long learning , and fairness. Life-long learning research aims to design models that can learn continuously while maintaining previously-acquired skills.

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