Eight Sleep just unveiled the Pod 6, its latest and greatest smart sleep system. The company says these new models have been "rebuilt from the ground up" and represent its "most significant hardware launch to date." There are a bunch of upgrades here when compared to the Pod 5. The hub has been completely redesigned and is now small enough to fit under most bed frames. It pumps temperature-controlled water inside the included mattress cover to keep things comfortable.

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I Tested the Best Mattress Toppers for a Good Night's Sleep These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that's a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support. My hunt for the best mattress toppers has taught me how transformative they can be. It started years before now, when I was throwing my back out nightly on a thin futon mattress in my fresh-out-of-college days. I tried a few cheap sheets of foam that barely helped with my back pain . I gave up for a while and instead switched to a too-soft mattress (equally problematic), until finally finding the right combo: a firm, supportive mattress with a nice mattress topper on top to support my problem areas and side-sleeper shoulder pain. These toppers can alleviate your aches, sink you into insanely comfortable memory foam, and even pack supportive coils like a mattress. My favorite toppers range from soft wool layers and memory foam to firm and even hybrid toppers (yes, you can get mattress toppers with springs in them) to find the best option for you and your mattress. Curious what you should get? Read on to find my best mattress toppers for everything from back pain issues, college students, and more. All prices below are for queen-size toppers. What Is a Mattress Topper?

Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed? Neo and a dozen other robots with human forms are scheduled to hit the market. "The same robot that can land a backflip might not be able to walk up a flight of stairs," a researcher said. On a recent sunny day in Silicon Valley, I visited the industrial headquarters of 1X Technologies. Security was tight, so I had to put a sticker over my cellphone's camera and talk my way out of signing an N.D.A. before I was brought into an enormous space to meet Neo, the company's home robot. Neo stands five feet six and has no facial features except for two black cameras in place of eyes. The robot is a humanoid--its design is inspired by the human form--and its proportions are a blend of those of the median American male and those of the median American female. But Neo has no skin. Instead, it wears a beige nylon turtleneck bodysuit, gloves, and padded shoes over a see-through carapace. Under that is a skeleton made up of more than a hundred whizzing motors and cordlike artificial tendons that control Neo's limbs. Neo's cozy, minimalist aesthetic allows it to blend into the background. If it served me an espresso at a café, I'm not certain I would look up from my phone. The robot weighs just sixty-six pounds, and I was able to pick it up in a bridal carry. It communicates through a speaker in its chest, using several different voices; the default one is in a calm but authoritative masculine register, an A.I.-modulated mixture of several voice actors. Neo can talk, listen, and respond to commands.

From runaway robots to "sonic bombs," we reviewed offbeat alarm clocks designed to awaken even the heaviest sleepers. Not every alarm clock is created equal. Heavy sleepers know how easy it is to snooze through the overly genteel alarms on your phone. For people who can't get out of bed without a bigger jolt, extreme alarms have popped up in recent years--from relatively simple puzzle-alarm phone apps to alarms on wheels to alarms that shake the bed. Not only are these an innovative way to get chronic snoozers out of bed, but they can be great for those who are hard of hearing, utilizing different frequencies and pitches as well as movement through vibration.

LLMs have demonstrated significant potential in code generation tasks, achieving promising results at the function or statement level across various benchmarks. However, the complexities associated with creating code artifacts like classes, particularly within the context of real-world software repositories, remain underexplored. Prior research treats class-level generation as an isolated task, neglecting the intricate dependencies & interactions that characterize real-world software environments. To address this gap, we introduce RepoClassBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to rigorously evaluate LLMs in generating complex, class-level code within real-world repositories. RepoClassBench includes "Natural Language to Class generation" tasks across Java, Python & C# from a selection of repositories. We ensure that each class in our dataset not only has cross-file dependencies within the repository but also includes corresponding test cases to verify its functionality. We find that current models struggle with the realistic challenges posed by our benchmark, primarily due to their limited exposure to relevant repository contexts. To address this shortcoming, we introduce Retrieve-Repotools-Reflect (RRR), a novel approach that equips LLMs with static analysis tools to iteratively navigate & reason about repository-level context in an agent-based framework. Our experiments demonstrate that RRR significantly outperforms existing baselines on RepoClassBench, showcasing its effectiveness across programming languages & under various settings. Our findings emphasize the critical need for code-generation benchmarks to incorporate repo-level dependencies to more accurately reflect the complexities of software development. Our work shows the benefits of leveraging specialized tools to enhance LLMs' understanding of repository context. We plan to make our dataset & evaluation harness public.

A deliciously uneasy atmosphere lies under the mask of a welcoming smile in the intensely unsettling Saint Jude. We're here to volunteer for a good cause, but as we're shuffled through eerie, clinical corridors, it quickly becomes clear that nothing is as it seems. Taking part in this immersive, tech-centred show is like walking into a choose-your-own-adventure video game: inventive and enjoyable, if a little restrictive. We're on a trial shift to be a "Guide Star" for Saint Jude, a private company that purports to connect volunteers like us to "Sleepers", people in the depths of a coma. Our job, we're told by beaming clinician Stefan (Bryan Moriarty), is to talk to our Sleeper and dig up details that will help them wake up.

I have a love-hate relationship with my alarm. I rely on it to ensure I get up in the morning and perform important tasks throughout the day, but when it sounds in the morning, I glare at it with the fury of a thousand suns. A good alarm clock can make the waking experience less jarring -- with cool features like ramp-up lighting or pleasing nature sounds. But it doesn't stop there; the best alarm clocks have additional features like voice assistants and interactive displays that make your alarm clock more useful than ever. Picking the best alarm clock for you can be tough, especially with so many features, price points and brands.

Researchers analyzed the brain signals and eye and facial movements of people engaged in lucid dreaming "conversations." In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio enters into other people's dreams to interact with them and steal secrets from their subconscious. Now, it seems this science fiction plot is one baby step closer to reality. For the first time, researchers have had "conversations" involving novel questions and math problems with lucid dreamers--people who are aware that they are dreaming. The findings, from four labs and 36 participants, suggest people can receive and process complex external information while sleeping.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again? Okay, I'll hold while you do." Diana hit the mute icon on her iDesk and threw a screwed-up ball of paper at Mark, sitting opposite. It'd save so much effort." "I'd want a whole support phrasebook.