Baidu released and open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2 on October 27, 2026, with code and weights on GitHub and Hugging Face under the MIT license. The model uses Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention to ...

Ollama now lets Mac users turn text into natural-sounding speech locally with Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models from Gradium. No subscription required.

Yogen Ghodke built ListenToMe as a favour to a family friend. Now, visually-impaired students use it to convert material in ...

When working on electrical projects around the home—whether you're troubleshooting an HVAC issue, figuring out why a wall outlet suddenly went dead, or testing a car battery before you reach for a ...

I love my slightly chunky Kobo e-readers and the Kindles that you can also use as a notebook are pretty remarkable (no pun intended). But these aren’t the easiest to pack up and go—they don’t fit in ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you some of our recent favorites, historical fiction set in China, Golden Age mysteries we love, novels that transport you to Victorian England, ...

Sakana AI’s TMLR paper introduces Multi-Layered Review, a 3-agent Claude-based reviewer, and a 1,164-error Contradiction ...