Beelink GTi15 Ultra is an Intel Arrow Lake mini PC with support for an (external) desktop graphics card

Last year Beelink launched a line of mini PCs that are designed to work with desktop graphics cards that may be larger than the computers themselves. That’s Beelink GTi Ultra series mini PCs have an exposed PCIe x8 interface that allows you to co…

Last year Beelink launched a line of mini PCs that are designed to work with desktop graphics cards that may be larger than the computers themselves. That’s Beelink GTi Ultra series mini PCs have an exposed PCIe x8 interface that allows you to connect them to a Beelink EX Pro Docking Station. Now Beelink is introducing […]

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Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless

Without rare, proprietary tech, these earbuds are useless.

I went for a run this morning while holding my iPhone, which was connected to a cable that attached to my earbuds. I’ve exercised with wired headphones for years, but today, the cord, with its persistent jostling, was especially distracting.

That’s because I was previously running with a pair of Bluetooth earbuds, EPOS’s GTW 270. They came out in 2021 for $200, and I received them as a gift. They typically sat in a drawer until this spring, when I started running outside (rather than in a gym or not at all) for the first time in a couple of years. Without a place to store my phone, wired headphones felt cumbersome while running. I previously overlooked the GTW 270 because they are not as comfortable as my wired earbuds and tend to lose their connection (especially with my PC) if the audio stops playing momentarily. The latter problem proved less common when using the earbuds with my phone, though. Suddenly, I was enamored with a gadget that had spent most of its life forgotten in a drawer.

But after a few short months, one of my earliest concerns about wireless earbuds was realized: I lost the GTW 270’s case, which charges the earbuds and enables pairing.

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From the hospital to the car plant: What is GM doing with CT scanners?

The adoption of medical scanning tech has improved first-time quality by 90 percent.

More and more, we're seeing imaging technologies and machine learning showing up in automotive applications. It's usually to diagnose some kind of problem like quality control, although not always—the camera-based system by UVeye that we wrote about a few years ago made news recently after Hertz started using it to charge renters for things like scuffs on hubcaps. I have fewer concerns about customer abuse with General Motors' use of CT scanning, which simply seems like a clever adaptation of medical technology into another industry.

Ignore, if you can, GM's business decisions. Maybe you're upset because it killed your favorite brand,  changed the shape of the Corvette headlights, or abandoned Apple CarPlay. There are many valid reasons, but none change the fact that the company's engineers are quite creative. (That's probably why it stings so much when the company starts hacking things up.)

GM first turned to X-rays as a way of doing two-dimensional quality control on castings during the development process, according to Ed Duby, manufacturing engineering executive director at GM. "Much like the application to people, when you think about X-ray and CT scan, it's really trying to diagnose something without having to go into surgery. We kind of want to do the same thing with our castings," Duby told me.

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Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal

xAI announces Grok for Government, tells Grok to stop calling itself MechaHitler.

A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.

The military's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) yesterday said that "awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI—each with a $200M ceiling—will enable the Department to leverage the technology and talent of US frontier AI companies to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas." While government grants typically take many months to be finalized, Grok's antisemitic posts didn't cause the Trump administration to change course before announcing the awards.

The US announcement didn't include much detail but said the four grants "to leading US frontier AI companies [will] accelerate Department of Defense (DoD) adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges." The CDAO has been talking about grants for what it calls frontier AI since at least December 2024, when it said it would establish "partnerships with Frontier AI companies" and had identified "a need to accelerate Generative AI adoption across the DoD enterprise from analysts to warfighters to financial managers."

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GOP’s pro-industry crypto bills could financially ruin millions, lawmaker warns

Trump’s crypto bills could turn trusted Big Tech companies into the next FTX.

It's "Crypto Week" in Congress, and experts continue to warn that legislation Donald Trump wants passed quickly could give the president ample opportunities to grift while leaving Americans more vulnerable to scams and financial ruin.

Perhaps most controversial of the bills is the one that's closest to reaching Trump's desk, the GENIUS Act, which creates a framework for banks and private companies to issue stablecoins. After passing in the Senate last month, the House of Representatives is hoping to hold a vote as soon as Thursday, insiders told Politico.

Stablecoins are often hyped as a more reliable form of cryptocurrency, considered the "cash of the blockchain" because their value can be pegged to the US dollar, Delicia Hand, Consumer Reports' senior director monitoring digital marketplaces, told Ars.

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Milk-V Titan is a mini ITX RISC-V board with support for DDR4-3200 and PCIe 4.0

The Milk-V Titan is an upcoming mini ITX motherboard with support for up to 64GB of DDR4-3200 memory, an M.2 connector for a PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD, and  a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for a graphics card or other add-ons. What makes the Titan unlike most motherboards t…

The Milk-V Titan is an upcoming mini ITX motherboard with support for up to 64GB of DDR4-3200 memory, an M.2 connector for a PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD, and  a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for a graphics card or other add-ons. What makes the Titan unlike most motherboards though, is that it’s powered by an UltraRISC UR-DP1000 […]

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Anzeige: Microsoft-365 richtig absichern – so gelingt’s

Von Entra ID über Threat Protection bis zum Gerätemanagement mit Intune – dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Wissen für die Absicherung von Microsoft 365. (Golem Karrierewelt, Office-Suite)

Von Entra ID über Threat Protection bis zum Gerätemanagement mit Intune - dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Wissen für die Absicherung von Microsoft 365. (Golem Karrierewelt, Office-Suite)