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Let us filter AI slop, you cowards

Nobody should be subjected to seeing shrimp Jesus all over their social feeds. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn't have to be this way.

Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask actually help you snooze better? I tested to find out

Bluetooth sleep masks block out light and let you stream audio. I spent weeks testing some of the top-rated ones on the marketThe best sleep masks in the US: I spent nine weeks testing 32 masks, and these are my favoritesSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsMy sister has fallen asleep to the dulcet tones of Law & Order every night for years. I myself am partial to the sound of rain at bedtime.

You hunch over a screen all day. Here are six small ways to relax your tight neck and achy back

Find relief from back pain and muscle tension with picks our contributors love, like slip-on shoes and thick cushionsSeven essential gadgets to live with when you have back pain, from grabbers to lap desksSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsIn another world, pressing play on a “heal overnight manifestation” video or taking a nice hot bath would be enough to relieve our tech necks and tense muscles. Instead, we usually need real, everyday...

Avian Visitors

Avian Visitors I was initally planning on leaving this as a ‘true’ personal project of sorts. I love a good project writeup of course, but frankly I thought this was too quick an afternoon project to warrant any more documentation than a tweet. Twitter thought otherwise … i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard pic.twitter.com/85KrLRL5tu —

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The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds Over the last few years, deep neural networks have made generative language modeling dramatically more powerful, giving us large language models. A similar leap happened for continuous modalities like images and videos.

Second-order Gaussian directional derivative representations for image high-resolution corner detection

arXiv:2601.08182v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Corner detection is widely used in various computer vision tasks, such as image matching and 3D reconstruction. Our research indicates that there are theoretical flaws in Zhang et al.'s use of a simple corner model to obtain a series of corner characteristics, as the grayscale information of two adjacent corners can affect each other.

Relax, it will all work out, says Trump, as Iran hangs up

TOI correspondent from Washington: Just hours after US President Donald Trump assured Americans that Iran "really wants to make a deal" and urged “negatively chirping” critics to "sit back and relax (because) it will all work out well in the end," the Middle East moved in the opposite direction. The three-month-old conflict lurched back toward open warfare on Monday as both sides reported fresh military strikes, Tehran suspended communications with Washington, and oil markets reacted with...

Live: The ABC Classic 100 countdown has begun but which piece will be the Greatest of All Time?

live Live updates: The ABC Classic 100 countdown has begun but which piece will be the Greatest of All Time? It's the biggest day on the classical musical calendar. The ABC Classic 100 is here!