Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' (www.theverge.com)
Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)
Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending (www.straitstimes.com)
Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons (singularityhub.com)
To get around the problem of damaging 10,000 neurons just to connect with 1,000, Biohybrid is experimenting with an approach that makes donor neurons a part of the implant itself - potentially allowing for dramatically better connection scaling.
Insiders say cutting-edge graphics are too costly for AAA games (www.tomshardware.com)
Samsung is the next company to try to popularize 3D displays (again) (arstechnica.com)
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series (www.techspot.com)
Integrate sex dolls into your life! (www.bestrealdoll.com)
The first step to getting your full size sex doll involved in your life is to treat her like a member of your family. Sex dolls, especially high-quality silicone sex dolls, are designed to be incredibly lifelike. This realism can make the experience feel more real, and by giving her a place in your home, such as in your living...
Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican (www.axios.com)
Roasted Christmas Spam from Muhu.ai (soatok.blog)
Speed Of Human Thought Estimated At A Puzzling 10 Bits Per Second (www.iflscience.com)
OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (www.theverge.com)
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines (www.wired.com)
Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...