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Meta may have leaked the first look at its slim ‘Project Phoenix’ headset

Just a couple of weeks before Meta Connect starts on September 23rd, UploadVR posted images seemingly revealing the design for Meta's "Project Phoenix" headset. The images, which UploadVR says were "found in the HorizonOS Prescription Lens firmware package," suggest Meta may be looking to compete with devices like those from Xreal or Viture. These companies' mixed reality glasses are a bit bulkier than something like Meta's Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, but a step down from a full VR headset like Me

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Where to preorder the Apple AirPods 5

The new AirPods 5 in their charging case. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The Apple AirPods 5 are bringing active noise cancellation to the masses, and they're now available for preorder at a variety of retailers. They'll officially launch on September 18th, the same day as the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. There are two versions this time around, just like with the last-gen model. The standard $129 model adds active noise cancelation

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The Verge Tech

Anime reaction YouTubers are at war with copyright enforcers

On September 6th, YouTuber Nicholas Light posted a video to one of his channels that made it seem like all of his content was about to be removed from the platform. In the video - ominously titled "My Channel will be Deleted Today" - Light alleges that he was on the receiving end of some of the "thousands upon thousands of false copyright strikes" recently initiated by a company called Remove Your Media. Light spends much of the 13-minute video accusing Remove Your Media CEO Eric Green of being

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HN RSS Best

Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

Article URL: https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659647 Points: 198 # Comments: 86

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DZone

Prompt Caching: Overriding Tokenization for Faster and More Cost-Effective AI

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into enterprise applications, optimizing response time and reducing operational costs have become critical priorities. One of the most effective techniques for achieving both is Prompt Caching. Instead of processing identical prompt segments repeatedly, prompt caching allows AI systems to reuse previously computed prompt representations, minimizing redundant computation. While tokenization converts text into tokens that the model und

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AWS Database Blog

Run DuckDB analytics on your Amazon DynamoDB data with zero-ETL

Run ad hoc SQL analytics on your Amazon DynamoDB data with DuckDB. A zero-ETL integration replicates your table into Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables, and an AWS Lambda function running DuckDB serves SQL queries through an IAM-authorized function URL.

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