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Sennheiser just made earbuds you don’t have to throw away when the battery dies

Sennheiser just announced the Momentum True Wireless 5, and it’s basically borrowing the best bits of its full-size Momentum 5 Wireless headphones and squeezing them into a smaller, comfier earbud. The earbuds start shipping September 3rd for $299.95. What’s new on the sound side? The earbuds use Sennheiser’s 7mm TrueResponse dynamic transducer, manufactured and tested […]

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Have I Been Flocked: What The Search Database Promises (And Where It Misses The Mark)

Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Surveillance is always a buzz-worthy topic, but the mid-2020s have seen it dominate mainstream conversation more than ever. One of the main sources of controversy is Flock Security’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Despite their name, Flock cameras capture far more than license plate numbers and collect […]

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Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake’s gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x

Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or not capable enough for hard ones. Model routing, which picks the right model for each task automatically, is becoming the fix. Snowflake’s Cortex AI Gateway now offers […]

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Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, tools and projects. Berd is a locally installed […]