Topic: latency performance
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India's Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to rival voice AI giants
Murf AI will launch its Falcon 2 voice model on August 20 at $0.01 per generated minute, roughly one-fifth the cost of rival ElevenLabs, making the price gap a major selling point for high-volume enterprise users. Falcon 2 claims superior performance on the Artificial Analysis benchmark, beating ...
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Open-Source Platform for Self-Improving AI Agents
Future AGI is a fully open-source, self-hostable platform under Apache 2.0 for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, with a one-time telemetry ping on first boot that can be disabled via the FUTURE_AGI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 environment variable before initial startup. The p...
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MIT’s ultrasound wristband lets you control a robot hand with your fingers
MIT engineers have developed an ultrasound wristband that tracks 22 hand degrees of freedom in real time, enabling control of a robotic hand with 120-millisecond latency through monitoring forearm tendons and muscles. The device successfully recognized all 26 American Sign Language letters in tes...
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Open-source proxy strips PII before AI prompts go external
Dataiku's Kiji Privacy Proxy is an open-source local gateway that detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in prompts sent to external AI APIs, preventing sensitive data from leaving the network. The tool uses a local quantized DistilBERT model to identify 16+ PII categories, r...
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DualSense on PC: $16 Raspberry Pi Adds PS5 Haptic Feedback
The $16 Raspberry Pi Pico 2W and new DS5Dongle project enable full wireless DualSense features on PC, including adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, by acting as an intermediary that tricks Windows into recognizing the controller as wired. While there is a slight 1-millisecond latency penalty c...
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Best AI dictation apps tested and ranked
AI dictation software has improved dramatically with large language models, now offering accurate speech capture, context understanding, and automatic removal of filler words, requiring far less manual correction. Leading apps include Wispr Flow (custom dictation styles, $15/month), Willow (gener...
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Steam Controller’s Pros and Cons Explained
The new 2026 Steam Controller features drift-resistant TMR joysticks, better ergonomics, four rear buttons, touch-sensitive sensors, and is user-repairable with replacement parts from iFixit. It includes a 2.4GHz USB-C puck that doubles as a magnetic charging dock, offers low-latency wireless con...
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Valve's new Steam Controller has flaws, but I'm still buying one
The new Steam Controller has reshaped the author's gaming habits, making them prefer docking their Steam Deck to play on TV due to the controller's superior ergonomics and extensive customization options. Key features include seamless layout transfer between Steam Deck and Controller, a low-laten...
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Valve Optimizes Half-Life: Alyx for Steam Deck Standalone Play
Valve is exploring optimizing *Half-Life: Alyx* for standalone play on the Steam Frame VR headset, moving beyond PC streaming to enhance accessibility and convenience for players. The Steam Frame demonstrated smooth gameplay via PC streaming, using a wireless adapter and "foveated streaming" to e...
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Nvidia GeForce Now RTX 5080 Review: Nearly Indistinguishable From Local Gaming
Nvidia's GeForce Now upgrade, powered by Blackwell architecture, delivers "RTX 5080 performance" that rivals or exceeds local gaming, with low latency making competitive titles like Apex Legends feel native. The service achieves input delays as low as 16-20 milliseconds at 1080p and up to 360 fps...
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