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Indigenous women engineered energy-efficient baby carriers
The technology helped them while harvesting the vast majority of their community's food. Apache, Navajo, and Shoshoni (pictured above) are only a few of the Indigenous tribes that utilized cradleboards. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Indigenous women were technological trailblazers. But while lived experiences and communal histories have long supported this, they routinely fail to receive the credit they deserve .
Black Friday blowout: Blink Video Doorbell plus Outdoor 4 cam for 37.99
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Hold onto your hats, folks, because this Black Friday security cam deal might just take the cake. Specifically, this blockbuster Black Friday bundle includes the second-generation Blink Video Doorbell and an Outdoor 4 security cam, the latter of which comes with the Blink Sync Module Core that bridges the two devices to your Wi-Fi network. Normally, that pair of Blink cameras would run you $139.98, but for Black Friday week, you can grab them both for $37.99 . The Blink Video Doorbell boasts HD-quality video with a head-to-toe view, perfect for spotting packages on your doorstep.
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nearly one in three U.S. households harbor a cold-hearted killer. Some even have a well-known proclivity for torture. And while the popular pets are best known for downing birds and cornering mice, they are also adept at hunting all manner of bugs. Host a cat in your home long enough and you'll likely become accustomed to regular deliveries of amputated insect legs, wings, or the occasional whole carcass.
Geomagnetic superstorm shrunk Earth's protective plasmasphere
In 2024, superstorm Gannon generated auroras-and wreaked havoc on this radiation-blocking layer. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and internet connections. According to a study published today in the journal, superstorm Gannon also squeezed the planet's protective layer of ionized particles to one-fifth its normal size. Geomagnetic storms aren't rare occurrences, but most of them remain relatively benign.
Moss survived 283 days in space, shocking biologists
After defying multiple mass extinctions on Earth, the hardy plant passes an intergalactic test. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While it may appear humble, Earth's moss is built darn tough. It thrives in extreme environments -from the bitter cold, low-oxygen air of the Himalayas, down to the parched sands of Death Valley. Some species even make their home among the lava fields of active volcanoes .
This ECOVACS robovac helps clean while I'm too busy writing Black Friday deals, and it's 500 off
Gear Home Smart Home This ECOVACS robovac helps clean while I'm too busy writing Black Friday deals, and it's $500 off If you need a robovac with suction that doesn't suck, the ECOVACS DEEBOT X11 OmniCyclone is 33% off for Black Friday. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Back in September, we went to the IFA consumer electronics expo in Berlin . Among the big-booth exhibitors, ECOVACS (and partner company TINECO) was a highlight for any smart home big on dust and short on time. The technology brands deliver intelligent, automated cleaning that hits the sweet spot for performance and features.
How to avoid bad Black Friday TV deals โ and some of the best UK offers for 2025
We've rounded up the best early Black Friday TV deals, from 50in OLEDs and small smart TVs to big-name brands like Samsung and LG Do you really need to buy a new TV? The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. W hen it comes to buying a new TV during Black Friday, careful prep and a canny eye for detail are everything. Sometimes that big-screen bargain isn't quite the steal you might think, and even if the price is right, niggling problems could sour long-term satisfaction. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link.
Amazon just dropped its best Black Friday deals on Kindles including the Paperwhite and Scribe
Grab the Kindle Paperwhite for $125 or upgrade to an even fancier model during this limited Black Friday deal. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Amazon just launched its Black Friday Kindle eReader deals, with every single model in the lineup seeing significant discounts. These are the lowest prices we'll see all year, making now the perfect time to upgrade your e-reader or pick up a gift for the book lover in your life. This is the official start of Amazon's Black Friday sales, so don't wait because they likely won't get any cheaper this year or even early next year.
Leveraging the Power of Large Language Models in Entity Linking via Adaptive Routing and Targeted Reasoning
Li, Yajie, Galimov, Albert, Ganapaneni, Mitra Datta, Thejaswi, Pujitha, Meng, De, Kumar, Priyanshu, Potdar, Saloni
Entity Linking (EL) has traditionally relied on large annotated datasets and extensive model fine-tuning. While recent few-shot methods leverage large language models (LLMs) through prompting to reduce training requirements, they often suffer from inefficiencies due to expensive LLM-based reasoning. ARTER (Adaptive Routing and Targeted Entity Reasoning) presents a structured pipeline that achieves high performance without deep fine-tuning by strategically combining candidate generation, context-based scoring, adaptive routing, and selective reasoning. ARTER computes a small set of complementary signals(both embedding and LLM-based) over the retrieved candidates to categorize contextual mentions into easy and hard cases. The cases are then handled by a low-computational entity linker (e.g. ReFinED) and more expensive targeted LLM-based reasoning respectively. On standard benchmarks, ARTER outperforms ReFinED by up to +4.47%, with an average gain of +2.53% on 5 out of 6 datasets, and performs comparably to pipelines using LLM-based reasoning for all mentions, while being as twice as efficient in terms of the number of LLM tokens.
The Zelos-450 Pellet Grill Has Features Missing on Grills Triple Its Price
An AI-Enabled Pellet Grill Is a Dumb Idea. Brisk It's Zelos-450 boasts gimmicky generative AI. Grills don't need AI, but you might need an AI grill. When it debuted at CES early this year, the Brisk It Zelos-450 was advertised as being the first grill with generative AI. That AI comes in the form of Vera, an in-app feature that "creates customized recipes based on your input and then sets the grill's temperature to cook them.