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Obsbot’s Meet 2 4K webcam with AI framing is now 23% off

Remote workers and casual streamers who want a meaningful upgrade over a laptop's built-in webcam without spending much. The Obsbot Meet 2 4K Webcam is now $99 (was $129) at Amazon and £99 (was £129) in the UK . • Why we…

Privacy policies on top LLMs take over 20 minutes to read, so perhaps it no wonder people are signing their lives over to ChatGPT and others

But what is it doing with that data? You can check the privacy policy to find out – assuming, that is, that you have the time to do so. A new study has found that the average time it takes to read a privacy policy for an…

DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by August 2027. DeepSeek has published the method it uses to train AI agents at scale, describing a platform that runs…

I replaced my Wi-Fi extender with an old Android phone after years of dead zones

You could have the most advanced router, but its signal still wouldn't reach that one room on the second floor. There are several solutions to this. You could set up a mesh router network or Wi-Fi extenders around your…

When will the AMOC collapse? We don’t know, but should still prepare

Science tells us that this is mechanistic: pull the trigger and you will get hurt. But in some cases, large uncertainty remains. One particular concern is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the…

What is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?

The induced vortex will create an air channel right up the middle to the bottom of the vessel. This lets air behind the water and so the whole mass of water is now free to fall under gravity. Without swirling to let air…

What causes clothes to crease, and why does ironing remove them?

In cotton and linen, adjacent cellulose molecules can cross-link to form weak, reversible links known as hydrogen bonds. These links can be broken and reformed under pressure, in the presence of heat and moisture –…

What is an itch, and why can a simple touch calm it?

Maybe itching has evolved to alert us to attack by blood-sucking arthropods, and if the persistence of the itch leads to a visceral loathing thereof, then surely that too, given dangers like the plague or malaria, will…

Why can’t we cool water as quickly as we can heat it? part 2

So, heating is more readily available than cooling. Liquid helium (at -269°C) gives us the closest commercial approach to absolute zero, but it is a pretty expensive way to cool your cocktails! Advertisement Humans have…

Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time

For hours at a time – in the case of the more free-range cat, sometimes several days – they vanish from sight. What might they be doing? Torturing the local small-animal population perhaps, or chasing fallen leaves…