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If you are in love with shoes, like Leanne Corcoran is, you think a lot about what’s on your feet. You might often ponder Oxfords versus pumps, or the balance of beauty and comfort, ...

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But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…AI is outperforming some professionals…Google plans to bring ads to Gemini…leading AI labs team up on AI agent standards…a new effort to give AI models a longer ...

Valve's unveiling of the Steam Machine has many of us excited about the yet-to-be-released gaming PC. Rocking an AMD Zen 4 CPU, an AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and up to 16GB of RAM, the box-shaped hardware isn't ...

In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age defined by data and automation, that approach no longer makes sense. The solution ...

What is a predictive maintenance model and why did you build one? For decades after the global industrial boom, many industries relied on a simple rule: wait for a machine to break, then repair it.