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Honda Super-ONE Debuts at $36,900 With Ohme Charging [2026]

Honda has locked in a new partner for the home side of its electric vehicle push in Australia. The automaker named Ohme as its exclusive home-charging partner for buyers of the Super-ONE, the compact electric hatchback that starts at $36,900 drive-away, according to The Driven. The move folds a smart charger, installation, and dealer-level support…

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Germany’s Solar Sleeping Pods Are Helping Homeless People Survive Freezing Winter Nights

Five years after TechStartups first reported on Germany’s futuristic, coffin-like sleeping pods for homeless people, the solar-powered shelters are still helping vulnerable residents survive freezing winter nights. What began as an unusual experiment in the city of Ulm has become […] The post Germany’s Solar Sleeping Pods Are Helping Homeless People Survive Freezing Winter Nights…

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Self-Compacting Language Model Agents

Long agent traces composed of chains of thought and tool calls accumulate stale content that anchor subsequent generations, and eventually outgrow the context window. Existing scaffolds mitigate it with fixed-interval compaction triggered at a token threshold. Such triggers pay no heed to trajectory structure, risking discard of partial results mid-derivation or mid-search. We propose SELFCOMPACT,…

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Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including high cost, limited elasticity, and long wait times under resource constraints. At the same time, modern Apple Silicon–based macOS devices are equipped with powerful GPUs that remain largely idle during normal usage. This paper presents Minions, a dynamic and…

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Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged

Large Language Models (LLMs) are considered to be a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to human judgment for Machine Translation (MT) evaluation. With MT evaluation spanning a large number of language pairs, domains and levels of annotation granularity, LLMs must be thoroughly evaluated across these dimensions before being reliably used as alternatives to human evaluation.…

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From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA

Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application.  France’s progress sits on deliberate groundwork.  The AI Action Summit in February 2025 and Choose France Summits in 2025 and 2026 anchored major compute commitments…

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Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies

Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. The activity, which targets Android devices built on MediaTek platforms across several brands, is being tracked by Bitdefender under the moniker Midnight Mimosa. The preinstalled

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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron’s Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that’s somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it…

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