FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, ships with several notable upgrades — most prominently integration with whisper.cpp for local, offline automatic…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program Summary Stellantis has paused its fully developed Level 3 AutoDrive programme, citing high costs, technical hurdles and weak consumer demand. Although the company unveiled…
Microsoft Expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Cheaper Game Pass Tiers Summary Microsoft is testing expanded Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) access for Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard Insiders. These lower-cost…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has announced two new in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a very fast speech-generation model already integrated into Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and MAI-1-preview,…
Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has introduced next-generation Acela sets on the Northeast Corridor with a top service speed of…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary Florida water managers and researchers from the University of Florida have trialled 120 robotic “rabbits” in the Everglades as…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a simple, inexpensive method to make succulents emit a soft glow by injecting a light-emitting…
CISA, FBI, NSA Warn of Chinese ‘Global Espionage System’ Summary US agencies CISA, the FBI and the NSA published a joint advisory warning of a broad, state-backed Chinese cyber campaign—referred…
How tree shrews see the world Summary In primates, visual information is processed through a hierarchy that moves from early brain regions responding to simple features to later areas that…
Dual-scale chemical ordering for cryogenic properties in CoNiV-based alloys Summary This Nature paper reports a rational nanostructure design that combines two scales of chemical ordering — atomic-scale short-range order (SRO)…
