The vacuum cleaner has a dual brushroll that can be used on carpet and hard floors, LED lights on the floor head so she can see in the dark, and a 100-minute run time that allows her to finish vacuuming in one session (while the convenient display also shows me how much battery life is remaining). The AI cleaning mode can detect the floor type and automatically change the suction power accordingly.It’s got an adjustable telescopic wand and accessories like an anti-tangle pet hair tool, crevice tool, and combination tool to pick up debris on non-floor areas as well. The self-empty clean station even keeps Williams from having to touch the dust bin (it automatically opens and closes when she places the vacuum on it and touches the button.Tineco Floor ONE S7 Combo Cordless Wet Dry Vacuum CleanerUpsidesTwo vacuumsLots of accessoriesLED lightsDownsidesWet/dry vac can be heavy to pushSpecsWeight: 2.93 poundsBattery life: 40 / 65 minutesBin capacity: 0.19 gallonsAccessories? YesIf you want the very best bang for your buck with a cordless vacuum cleaner, consider the Tineco Floor One S7 Combo Smart Wet Dry Vacuum. We know the Tineco Pure One S11 is a popular choice, but hear us out: At first glance, the Tineco Floor One S7 Combo appears quite expensive, but consider what you get. The cordless wet/dry vacuum has a 40-minute runtime and a self-cleaning system to remove yucky stuff from the wet rollers. However, Williams can also take the motor out of the wet/dry vac and put it in the regular cordless stick vacuum, which has a 65 minutes runtime, and can be used to vacuum both carpet and hard floors.Accessories include the ZeroTangle brush, mini power brush, 2-in-1 crevice dusting brush, and cleaning tool. All of the brushes can be used on the regular cordless vacuum cleaner to increase functionality too.Photo: Lori KeongLevoit LVAC-300 Stick VacuumUpsidesEasy assemblyStylish designLong-lasting batteryDownsidesThe suction power in eco-mode isn’t too strongSpecsWeight: 6.61 poundsBattery life: 120 minutesBin capacity: 0.75 litersNoise Level: 77.5 dBWhile Williams has tested the LVAC-200 in the past and given it rave reviews for its filtration system and tangle-resistant design, associate commerce director Lori Keong says the newest Levoit product, the LVAC-300 vacuum, takes it up a notch with a longer runtime (up to 60 minutes vs. 50) and a redesigned brush assembly for reduced tangling. Plus, its tech-friendly design is top-notch. “I love that the display screen tells you exactly how much battery life is left, and I was able to vacuum the entirety of my teeny apartment around 300 square feet without even breaking 90% battery life on eco mode,” Keong says. It did lose some cleaning points for the power suction of eco mode, which struggled to pick up a popcorn kernel, but she says turbo mode had it covered.It has a small footprint and intuitive assembly design, as Keong says it arrived in a “box small enough that I questioned how the whole thing fit in there.” From there, the setup was a breeze. She recommends this vacuum for those who want the look and quality of a Dyson cleaner at a lower price point. “I think it’s a great alternative for anyone who’s on a budget and wants a slightly tech-enhanced model that deconstructs for small space living.”Tineco Pure ONE Station 5 Cordless Smart VacuumUpsidesSelf-standing clean station12-stage filtration systemLED headlightGreat battery lifeDownsidesNot as many accessoriesSpecsWeight: 16.5 poundsBattery life: 70 minutesBin capacity: 2.5 litersAccessories? YesThe Tineco Pure ONE Station 5 Smart Cordless Smart Vacuum is a more economical choice than the Tineco Floor One S7 Combo, which is another pick on our list. It’s not a wet-dry vacuum, and doesn’t include as many accessories as the former, but does have plenty of features. The two-in-one crevice dusting brush, and the ability to convert from a cordless stick to a handheld adds functionality for other cleaning scenarios. The Pure ONE Station 5 also has a 70-minute battery, which is very good. The brush roller, which has a LED headlight, works on both hard floors and carpet, and the 175W suction captures dust and debris. (We also considered the Tineco Pure One S11.)The large brush roll resists tangling hair and pet fur, which eliminates the need to stop and pull items off the brush—and also eliminates a clogged pipe. The best part is the fully sealed automatic dust collection process. After docking the stick vac on the cleaning station, it will automatically self-clean, which means you don’t have to manually open and clean the dustbin. The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.The 12-stage filtration system is actually the most impressive part. The vacuum itself has a six-stage filtration system (main cycle, mess filter, dura-cycle, coarse sponge, fine sponge and HEPA 13 filter). And then, the clean station has its own six-stage filtration system (main cycle, mess filter, single cyclone, coarse sponge, fine sponge, and HEPA 13 filter).Dyson Gen5detect Absolute VacuumUpsidesFluffy optic clean head for hardwoodsWhole-machine HEPA filtrationNo touch bin emptyingDownsidesWall-mounted storage onlySpecsWeight: 7.72 poundsBattery life: 70 minutesBin capacity: 0.2 gallonsAccessories? YesDyson vacuums are well represented on our list of the best vacuums for hardwood floors, and we really like the Dyson V15 detect—however, the company released a new model, the Dyson Gen5detect Absolute, which is the most powerful of the company’s HEPA cordless vacuums. Williams likes the single-button power control over the trigger mechanism. Also, the 70-minute battery life is not only good, but the longest among Dyson’s cordless vacuums. The vacuum has a fluffy optic cleaner head that not only cleans but also polishes hard floors.

GameCube will be available for Switch 2's 'Expansion Pack' tier.The Nintendo Today! mobile app has been sharing additional footage of the GameCube games on the way to the Switch 2's online expansion pack at launch, and the latest video is a look at SoulCalibur II.This Namco fighter originally made its debut on consoles in 2003, with each version featuring guest characters. PlayStation 2 got Heihachi Mishima from Tekken, Xbox got Spawn, and GameCube as you might recall got Link from The Legend of Zelda. You can see him in action in the footage above (thanks, Universo Nintendo).Read the full article on nintendolife.com

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models. Hallucinations have proven to be one of the biggest and most difficult problems to solve in AI, impacting even today’s best-performing systems. Historically, each new model has improved slightly in the hallucination department, hallucinating less than its predecessor. But that doesn’t seem to be the case for o3 and o4-mini. According to OpenAI’s internal tests, o3 and o4-mini, which are so-called reasoning models, hallucinate more often than the company’s previous reasoning models — o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini — as well as OpenAI’s traditional, “non-reasoning” models, such as GPT-4o. Perhaps more concerning, the ChatGPT maker doesn’t really know why it’s happening. In its technical report for o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI writes that “more research is needed” to understand why hallucinations are getting worse as it scales up reasoning models. O3 and o4-mini perform better in some areas, including tasks related to coding and math. But because they “make more claims overall,” they’re often led to make “more accurate claims as well as more inaccurate/hallucinated claims,” per the report. OpenAI found that o3 hallucinated in response to 33% of questions on PersonQA, the company’s in-house benchmark for measuring the accuracy of a model’s knowledge about people. That’s roughly double the hallucination rate of OpenAI’s previous reasoning models, o1 and o3-mini, which scored 16% and 14.8%, respectively. O4-mini did even worse on PersonQA — hallucinating 48% of the time. Third-party testing by Transluce, a nonprofit AI research lab, also found evidence that o3 has a tendency to make up actions it took in the process of arriving at answers. In one example, Transluce observed o3 claiming that it ran code on a 2021 MacBook Pro “outside of ChatGPT,” then copied the numbers into its answer. While o3 has access to some tools, it can’t do that. “Our hypothesis is that the kind of reinforcement learning used for o-series models may amplify issues that are usually mitigated (but not fully erased) by standard post-training pipelines,” said Neil Chowdhury, a Transluce researcher and former OpenAI employee, in an email to TechCrunch. Sarah Schwettmann, co-founder of Transluce, added that o3’s hallucination rate may make it less useful than it otherwise would be. Kian Katanforoosh, a Stanford adjunct professor and CEO of the upskilling startup Workera, told TechCrunch that his team is already testing o3 in their coding workflows, and that they’ve found it to be a step above the competition. However, Katanforoosh says that o3 tends to hallucinate broken website links. The model will supply a link that, when clicked, doesn’t work. Hallucinations may help models arrive at interesting ideas and be creative in their “thinking,” but they also make some models a tough sell for businesses in markets where accuracy is paramount. For example, a law firm likely wouldn’t be pleased with a model that inserts lots of factual errors into client contracts. One promising approach to boosting the accuracy of models is giving them web search capabilities. OpenAI’s GPT-4o with web search achieves 90% accuracy on SimpleQA, another one of OpenAI’s accuracy benchmarks. Potentially, search could improve reasoning models’ hallucination rates, as well — at least in cases where users are willing to expose prompts to a third-party search provider. If scaling up reasoning models indeed continues to worsen hallucinations, it’ll make the hunt for a solution all the more urgent. “Addressing hallucinations across all our models is an ongoing area of research, and we’re continually working to improve their accuracy and reliability,” said OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix in an email to TechCrunch. In the last year, the broader AI industry has pivoted to focus on reasoning models after techniques to improve traditional AI models started showing diminishing returns. Reasoning improves model performance on a variety of tasks without requiring massive amounts of computing and data during training. Yet it seems reasoning also may lead to more hallucinating — presenting a challenge.

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DIY HDD: As any computer enthusiast will attest, being in the computer business for a few years usually means accumulating a pile of spare parts and hardware components. Old hard drives can be repurposed as additional storage in newer systems, or even transformed into creative modding projects with a few extra pieces and a bit of soldering, and then there's this. One such modder, who enjoys tinkering with electronics and PC hardware, turned a retired hard disk drive into a custom disc sander. Recently featured by Tom's Hardware, the project makes clever use of the 7200 RPM speed of an old WD HDD, along with a few additional components and some basic tools. The creator, known as "ProShorts 101," used a WD Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS drive, dating back to 2009 and offering what was then a lavish 160GB of storage. To complete the build, he incorporated a 30A electronic speed controller, a servo tester, a 12V socket, and sandpaper, which he glued to the HDD's spinning disc. The modder disassembled the hard drive, removed the PCB and other components typically found in a functioning drive, and installed the new parts. He even reused some of the original metal casing to shield the internal parts, leaving only the rotating disc exposed. Finally, sandpaper was glued onto the metallic disc surface, completing the "portable" disc sander. As someone suggested in the video comments, ProShorts could have improved the design by using Velcro instead of glue. This would allow for easy replacement of worn sandpaper in the future. Others praised the ingenuity of repurposing a (presumably) non-functional hard drive into something useful. Disc sanders come in various sizes, shapes, and price ranges, and purchasing a high-quality one often requires a significant investment. While an HDD-based sander won't grind heavy-duty metals or help you build a house, it could be "good enough" for some personal, smaller scale projects. // Related Stories ProShorts 101's DIY creations include a variety of testers and electronic gadgets. He clearly has a passion for transforming everyday objects into new, functional "toys" though we found that the overuse of words like "amazing," "incredible," and "useful" makes browsing his YouTube channel a tad bit bothersome.

Smart watches are fascinating ways to track our sleep, health, and fitness and make an interesting use of the wrist slot on our body in a world where the time is more available than ever. But we can criticize even the best smartwatches for looking a bit too techy. That is, if you want something that looks more traditional and fear looking too health-conscious, a smartwatch is seemingly not for you. Fortunately, we’re seeing an increasing interest in hybrid smartwatches — watches that use old world style with modern day tech. And, sometimes, they get a pretty good sale. Take the Movado Bold Motion in stainless steel that we’re now seeing on Jomashop. It retails for $795, but they’re selling it for just $442. That’s a discount of $353, or around 44% off. Tap the button below to see and buy the watch or keep reading to learn about all of its details. The majority of this Movado Bold Motion is stainless steel. It has a stainless steel band and casing. The face itself is protected by a scratch-resistant mineral crystal surface and the interior is a dark black with blue-accented hands and a blue ring around the dial. It has a noticeable crown on the side, as most traditional watches do, but the whole thing stays relatively minimalist. Even the charging portal is hidden on the underside of the case, hidden away by your wrist. Related All tracking with the Movado Bold Motion is done in conjunction with your phone and, as it goes both ways, your phone gives notifications to the Movado Bold. In other words, this is a very minimalist and unobtrusive smartwatch. It is a watch first and foremost with activity tracking there in the background. With this watch it should be easier to ignore the gamification to some degree and just act, free of the constant “observer effect” you may feel when wearing a smartwatch with notifications, trackers, and stats ever-present upon your wrist. Here’s a reminder that the Movado Bold Motion is said to retail at $795 and you can get yours for just $442 today if you tap the button below. Again, that’s a discount of $353 or 44% off. Of course, this isn’t the only smartwatch that has a deal today, so be sure to look at our collection of smartwatch deals for models that have a more typical design. Editors’ Recommendations

One of the quietest places in the universe is an unremarkable room on the southern coast of the UK. Here, in one of the University of Southampton’s physics labs, overseen by Hendrik Ulbricht, a preposterous amount of effort has gone into eliminating every conceivable disturbance: a 1-tonne slab of granite absorbs all vibrations aside from the faintest tremors, while a pendulum repurposed from a gravitational wave observatory catches the last leftover wobbles and a fridge lowers temperatures to within a whisker of those in the deepest reaches of outer space. All of this is done in the slim hope we might answer a question that has plagued scientists since the advent of quantum mechanics a century ago. In the microscopic quantum realm, reality seems to work differently than in the solid, predictable world we are used to. Hard boundaries melt into one another and objects can become deeply intertwined, or entangled, without physical contact. Quantum objects in what is known as a superposition seemingly inhabit more than one place at a time, at least if we aren’t looking directly at them. But with the smallest of disturbances, entanglement vanishes and superpositions collapse – and the larger an object is, the more likely it is to succumb to certainty. This article is part of a special series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum theory. Read more here. However, over the past few years, scientists have gone from putting tiny things like simple particles into a superposition to getting surprisingly large things into this state, including a sapphire crystal. As these quantum effects get bigger and bigger,…

Vice-President JD Vance drew intense backlash in China after he called Chinese people "peasants" during an interview with Fox. Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS 2025-04-19T03:36:30Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Vice President JD Vance called Chinese people "peasants" during an interview with Fox. Anger against Vance's comment is fueling further discontent over US tariffs on China. Many Chinese social media users pointed to Vance's upbringing in Appalachia. Vice President JD Vance's comment about Chinese people has esclated online tension between the US and China over a back-and-forth trade war."What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it's based on two principles — incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us," Vance told Lawrence Jones on news show "Fox & Friends" on April 3."To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture," Vance continued.It took some time, but clips of Vance's interview went viral across the Chinese social media over the following weeks and drew intense backlash. By April 7, a hashtag on Vance's remarks became the top trending topic on Weibo, China's Twitter-adjacent social media platform, and racked up a total of more than 150 million views by April 18.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian responded to the comments during a press conference on April 8: "It's both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks. The internet fire storm soon followed, and the anger against Vance spilled over into discussions related to US tariffs on China.In a dramatic speech about the tariffs that has racked up millions of views, Xia Baolong, a Chinese politician and director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, ended his talk by hitting back at Vance."Let those American peasants wail in front of the 5,000 year-old civilization of the Chinese nation," Xia said."Vance once said that the Chinese are 'peasants.' This real 'peasant' who came from the American countryside seems to have some defects in perspective," wrote Hu Xijin, the influential former editor-in-chief of state-run paper Global Times, on a Weibo post discussing the possibility of a trade decoupling between China and the US."Look, this is their true face — arrogant and rude as always," wrote one Weibo commenter who racked up more than 3,000 likes."We are peasants, but we have the best high-speed rail system in the world, the most powerful logistics capabilities, and the world's leading AI technology, unmanned driving technology, drone technology, etc.," wrote another Weibo commenter. "Such peasants are still quite powerful."Some more politically savvy commenters also pointed out the irony in Vance's remarks, considering his own working-class roots as described in his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."In the memoir, Vance recounts a childhood marked by poverty, abuse, and his mother's struggle with addiction, much of it spent in Appalachia — a region he portrays as neglected by affluent elites. The book was widely seen as appealing among the white working class and as an explanation for the billionaire's rise."Vice-President Vance, don't forget," wrote a Chinese blogger on Zhi Hu, a Chinese micro-blogging platform, "a peasant gave birth to you!"The White House did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment. Recommended video

For runners, swimmers, cyclists, hikers, and just about anyone who likes to get their workouts done in the great outdoors — the Galaxy Watch Ultra is what you’re looking for. It’s truly a fitness-first smartwatch with it’s rugged build and plethora of activities you can track. The durable, outdoorsy Galaxy Watch Ultra isn’t discounted at the moment, but with a trade-in credit from handing in your old watch, you can save up to $325. That’ll cut the price of the smartwatch in half, bringing it down from $$650 to just $325. To achieve the full $325 credit, you can trade in and old Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Other model of the Galaxy Watch can be traded in for between $150 to $300 depending on the version. Samsung is also accepting smartwatches from other manufacturers including Apple, Google, and Garmin. See at Samsung Durable Titanium Design The tough titanium 47mm face which can handle getting banged around or bumped into. You can even get that titanium in different colors. Choose between titanium gray, titanium white, or titanium silver. Additionally the watch band has a few options to select from as well. A synthetic peakform band, the slightly bulkier marine band, and then the fabric-based trail band. Each are available in orange, white, or black with the exception of the trail band which is only in white or black. The Galaxy Watch Ultra can track sleep and energy levels throughout the day by calculating a score of your “physical readiness” based on your sleep from the previous night, heart rate, and steps. The heart rate tracing is precise to help optimize your workouts with the help of Galaxy AI which can filter out the physical movements of your body. You can stay on top of your health by following the personalized Wellness Tips based on insights collected by your Watch and analyzed by your phone daily. See at Samsung This battery is super long-lasting, able to last 60 hours on just a single charge. This is great to make sure you have a charge left before starting your workout, but it’s particularly beneficial for sleep tracking. A lot of watches tout what they can while you sleep, but a lot of those smartwatches can’t even last a full day — when do they expect you to charge them? Not a problem with the Galaxy Watch Ultra, which can help you get better rest each night and even detect sleep apnea. The Galaxy Watch Ultra normally goes for $650, but right now with a trade-in of up to $325, you can get yours for 50% off. See at Samsung

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08835-0Insights into how the linker histone H1 promotes chromatin alterations and allows repair of DNA damage are described.