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I would like to thank a decade of running for my apparently beefy legs. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. About three
The Fitbit Charge 6 is now priced like a budget wearable. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Prime Day is making it much easier to pick up a Fitbit without spending more than you want. Both the Fitbit Charge 6 and Fitbit Ace LTE are on steep discounts today. Right now, you can buy the Cha
Arduino's Raspberry Pi-like microcomputer the Uno Q is joining many other devices in getting a price hike this week. The 2GB version of the Uno Q, which is powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor, will increase in price from $44 to $59, while the 4GB model is getting a slightly steeper in
If you’ve been curious about the emerging world of smart glasses, Prime Day is your chance to try some of the best models with a rare discount from Best Buy or directly from Xreal. The high-end Xreal One Pro is $549, $50 lower than the usual price, and the more entry-level Xreal 1S is $399, $50 off
Why memorizing for the exam doesn't mean you understand the subject The post Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 11: Overfitting in RAG evaluation appeared first on Towards Data Science.
I built a running shoe rotation in the Prime Day sales, with a total saving of almost $200 on three great shoes to cover all your training and racing needs.
It's the streaming platform taking the World Cup by storm, with ties to Cristiano Ronaldo and record-breaking viewership figures - here's how to watch CazeTV from anywhere
It's worth using a VPN on crowded public networks – and with the right settings, a few seconds of tweaking can keep your connection fast, secure, and leak-free.
Get yourself a sweet iPhone with these epic Prime Day deals still going on, which many of them don't require you to trade in an older device to get the savings.
Tom's Guide reacts to the premiere of "The Bear" season 5.
And it's surprisingly good at running modern PC titles
The setting was quietly draining my battery for years
Apple’s highly anticipated foldable iPhone is launching this fall, but a new report today claims you might have to wait a little longer (and save up a ton of money) to actually buy it.
![Cover Image: A monolithic block breaking into Go microservices] Answer-first: How we escaped Magento's licensing and scaling walls by migrating to a Composable Commerce Platform built on 21 Go microservices, Dapr PubSub, and a 3-phase Strangler Fig strategy without dropping a single order. At exac
I have been building FastPlay, a minimal native Windows video player written in Rust. FastPlay repo: github.com/CalvinSturm/FastPlay FastPlay uses FFmpeg for demuxing and decoding, D3D11/DXGI for video presentation, and WASAPI for audio output. The product goal is intentionally narrow: fast local pl
Hey, I'm an indie maker. I run three small SaaS products, a tiny newsletter, and I keep trying to layer new income streams on top without burning out. This is the unfiltered story of how I spent the last quarter building an affiliate revenue channel around AI APIs — what worked, what flopped, and wh
I published a comparison of Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Blob Storage a little while back. Looking back at it, Azure Table Storage was a real gap - it sits in a genuinely useful middle position between a relational table and a full document database, and it deserves its own proper explanation rather th
Self-Attention can compare every token with every other token. But there is a catch. By itself, it does not know the order of tokens. That is a serious problem because “dog bites man” and “man bites dog” use the same words but mean completely different things. A Transformer needs two kinds of inform
Most production RAG systems are built on a simple premise: convert documents into single vectors and find the ones closest to a query vector. This works for simple documents, but fails on the messy, multi-aspect data that defines enterprise reality. Cohere's Compass is a new embedding model designed
Scry lets you talk to any EVM smart contract in plain English. Point it at an address on six chains and ask "what does this do?" or "can I withdraw my funds?" The hard part is not the chat. It is getting a usable interface for a contract when the ABI is hidden behind a proxy, or when there is no ver
