Author: Awais

One of the biggest surprises of Cyber Monday was the terrific discount we saw on the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, which dropped in price by $50. We expected the price to return to normal once the shopping holiday ended, but to our surprise, it’s still going strong two days later. Several major retailers are offering the console bundle for $449.99 ($50 off) — including Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Since it’s a high-demand item, Walmart and Best Buy require that you add the bundle to your cart before seeing the discounted price.The current promo effectively gets you…

Saving memories is usually a hassle. URLs go in the bookmarks section or are copied and pasted in a dedicated app. Then there are camera clicks of posters, or the dozens of screenshots we take, which lie around like an uncluttered mess in the Photos app. Imagine a system where you press the iPhone’s Action Button. It takes a screenshot, writes a brief summary of the on-screen content, adds hashtags for quick search, and automatically saves all the information in an app of your choice.  Sounds terrific, right? Well, the iPhone won’t do that. Android devices, such as the OnePlus…

Your Facebook marketing strategy isn’t just about engaging posts anymore. It’s also about organic search visibility. With billions of daily searches happening inside Facebook, users now treat the platform like a discovery engine for brands, products and conversations. If you don’t optimize your content, you risk being invisible when people are actively looking for you. That’s where Facebook search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. It helps your brand show up for the right queries and drives visibility far beyond the news feed. Here’s how to master it. What is Facebook SEO? Facebook SEO is the process of optimizing your Facebook…

It’s tough shopping for organic bedding. If you don’t know your way around the certification lingo, you might buy something that has just organic materials but doesn’t use an organic process or chemicals to make the bedding you end up sleeping on. One of our favorite brands that checks all the boxes is Naturepedic, which makes some of our favorite organic mattresses and organic sheets. Naturepedic has certifications around the block for its products, from the Global Organic Textile Standard (better known as GOTS) and Oeko Text Standard 100 to Greenguard Gold and Made Safe. You can’t go wrong with…

What you do get when your son has accidentally gone into business with your enemy, your mother has just died and your ex-boss’ wife as uncovered hidden problems at the corporation you work for? Just another day in Tommy’s (Billy Bob Thornton) life in Landman season 2.The Paramount+ show is onto another year of its winning formula, and we can’t stop tuning in. Demi Moore (Cami) has a much bigger role this time around, Ali Larter continues to fly off the handle as Angela, and 1883 alum Sam Elliot joins the cast as Tommy’s dad, TJ.We’re yet to properly explore…

Bringing out a steaming casserole dish of hot dip is a surefire way to get everyone’s attention at a party. You barely need to announce, “Hot dip coming through!”—the visuals and aroma do all the work, drawing people in like a siren’s call. And the best part? A hot dip delivers instant gratification for surprisingly little effort. It’s a set-it-down-and-let-people-dive-in situation: no passing hors d’oeuvres, no refilling platters, and once the dish is empty, you’re done. So we’ve curated 10 cheesy, bubbly hot dip recipes that practically guarantee a scraped-clean vessel and an easy cleanup. Just make sure you set…

Social media now drives more traffic to small and medium-sized businesses than search, and many SMBs are beginning to track AI-generated referrals. They also see competitors showing up in AI summaries as an emerging threat, according to new survey data published today by WordStream by LocaliQ. Why we care. Small businesses now see AI summaries as an emerging and important channel. These summaries shape buyers’ early decisions and can steer them toward competing products. AI referrals have also become clear and trackable, convincing businesses that they can – and should – optimize for them. Google traffic losses rise. Forty percent…

The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York. The Tribune alleges that its lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October asking if the AI search engine was using its content, according to the complaint. Perplexity’s lawyers replied it did not train models with the Tribune’s work, but that it “may receive non-verbatim factual summaries,” the lawsuit claims. The Tribune’s lawyers, however, argue that Perplexity is delivering Tribune content verbatim. Interestingly, the newspaper’s lawyers are also calling out Perplexity’s Retrieval Augmented…

For Sauce: Char poblano peppers directly over a gas flame or under the broiler, rotating as needed to ensure the skin is blistered and charred on all sides. Use tongs to transfer roasted peppers to a bowl, then top with plastic wrap so the peppers steam. After 10 minutes, discard plastic wrap. Under cool running water, use clean hands to strip away the charred skin. Discard seeds. Place a large skillet over medium-high heat; add tomatillos, jalapeño peppers, green bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Slightly toast, turning frequently, until the mixture is aromatic and just begins to deepen in color.…

[Submitted on 20 Nov 2025 (v1), last revised 4 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled SeSE: A Structural Information-Guided Uncertainty Quantification Framework for Hallucination Detection in LLMs, by Xingtao Zhao and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) in safety-critical scenarios, as it enables them to abstain from responding when uncertain, thereby avoiding “hallucinating” falsehoods. However, state-of-the-art UQ methods primarily rely on semantic probability distributions or pairwise distances, overlooking latent semantic structural information that could enable more precise uncertainty estimates. This paper…