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VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox

In Evelyn Mora’s early career, she realized that fashion designers, although often deeply focused on sustainability, couldn’t stage environmentally friendly large-scale fashion shows.   In 2021, she launched VLGE, a gaming and immersive-world-building platform that specializes in working with brands. It lets brands build their own worlds, fill them with interactive content and games, and export said…

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Microsoft, AWS, and Google are trying to drastically reduce China’s role in their supply chains

As geopolitical tensions intensify between the U.S. and China, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are ramping up efforts to move production of their products and data centers outside of China, Nikkei reported, citing supply chain sources. In particular, Microsoft wants to have up to 80% of the components needed to make its Surface notebooks…

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A Coding Guide to Build an AI-Powered Cryptographic Agent System with Hybrid Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Adaptive Security Intelligence

In this tutorial, we build an AI-powered cryptographic agent system that combines the strength of classical encryption with adaptive intelligence. We design agents capable of performing hybrid encryption with RSA and AES, generating digital signatures, detecting anomalies in message patterns, and intelligently recommending key rotations. As we progress, we witness these autonomous agents securely establish…

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Sennheiser BTD 700 Bluetooth audio dongle launched in India

Sennheiser India has officially launched the Sennheiser BTD 700 Bluetooth audio dongle in India, expanding its portfolio of high-quality wireless audio solutions. The compact adapter is designed to deliver premium, low-latency wireless sound for headphones, earbuds, and other audio devices across multiple platforms. Weighing just 2.2 grams, the Sennheiser BTD 700 is built for portability…

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Google AI Releases C2S-Scale 27B Model that Translate Complex Single-Cell Gene Expression Data into ‘cell sentences’ that LLMs can Understand

A team of researchers from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and Yale released C2S-Scale 27B, a 27-billion-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on Gemma-2. The model formalizes single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) profiles as “cell sentences”—ordered lists of gene symbols—so that a language model can natively parse and reason over cellular states. Beyond benchmarking gains, the research…

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Hohem launches iSteady X3 and iSteady V3 Ultra gimbals in India with AI tracking

Hohem has expanded its smartphone gimbal portfolio in India with the launch of the iSteady X3 and iSteady V3 Ultra, designed to offer advanced stabilization, AI-powered tracking, and portability for creators, vloggers, and travelers. The new models cater to both beginners and professionals seeking smooth, high-quality video capture on the go. The Hohem iSteady X3…

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Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Team Releases PaddleOCR-VL (0.9B): a NaViT-style + ERNIE-4.5-0.3B VLM Targeting End-to-End Multilingual Document Parsing

How do you convert complex, multilingual documents—dense layouts, small scripts, formulas, charts, and handwriting—into faithful structured Markdown/JSON with state-of-the-art accuracy while keeping inference latency and memory low enough for real deployments?Baidu’s PaddlePaddle group has released PaddleOCR-VL, a 0.9B-parameter vision-language model designed for end-to-end document parsing across text, tables, formulas, charts, and handwriting. The core model…

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