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I just got an email from Groq saying that distil-whisper-large-v3-en will be deprecated by August 23, 2025. Their suggested replacement model, whisper-large-v3-turbo, is quite capa…

I love the idea of Waymo in theory, but unfortunately the only times I've seen them in the news are when things go horribly wrong (like the fact that they've gotten almost 600 park…

The PayPal debit card lets you choose a 5% cash back category every month. Gas, restaurants, and a few other I don't remember. It's a much better deal than most of the credit cards…

As someone who lived in Russia for a while, I have personal experience with these mini-exchanges. They're the Internet equivalent of those currency exchange stands at airports, I w…

> Durant, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, found the new prime number using only publicly available unused cloud storage space. > I was able to find this numbe…

"Green" hydrogen is anything but. Electrolysis is a fundamentally inefficient technique. Scale it all you want, but you will hit diminishing returns faster than with water desalina…

Always funny seeing SaaS companies pitch their own product in blog posts. I understand it's just how marketing works, but pitching your own product as a solution to a problem (that…

With the existence of SMS receiving services and click farms that bypass Google's latest captcha (I'm not even going to mention how easy it is to "click" on email links), services …