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Cohere launches a family of multilingual open templates

Cohere launches a family of multilingual open templates

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Cohere,ai models,Offline first ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Enterprise AI company Cohere has launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, called Tiny Aya, are open-weight โ€” meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and modify โ€” supports more than 70 languages, and can run on everyday devices like laptops without requiring an internet connection. The model, launched by Cohere Labs, the company's research arm, supports South Asian languages โ€‹โ€‹such as Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil,…
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Real Madrid: Why the Champions League match between Benfica is a pivotal moment for Alvaro Arbeloa

Real Madrid: Why the Champions League match between Benfica is a pivotal moment for Alvaro Arbeloa

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Since the defeat in Lisbon last January, Arbeloa has made some changes, including tweaking Real Madrid's formation.That match was the last time he played in a 4-3-3 formation, with Franco Mastantuono, Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior starting up front.In Real Madrid's next three matches, Arbeloa changed to a 4-4-2 formation, with Mastantuono returning to midfield to leave Gonzalo Garcia, Vinicius and Mbappe as rotating striker options. โ€œDefensively, it is a structure that closes the midfield corridor, where there are more players, and allows us to…
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Six Nations 2026: What changes might England make for the Ireland match?

Six Nations 2026: What changes might England make for the Ireland match?

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Henry Arundel's red card at Murrayfield and subsequent potential ban could open up a place on the left wing.The 23-year-old received two yellow cards on Saturday - the second for dangerously clearing a player in the air - and could miss the match against Ireland.Center back Ollie Lawrence came into the season with a knee injury, which helped push Tommy Freeman to switch from winger to outside midfield.Freeman is usually deployed on the right wing but played on the left, starting there in England's last…
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Poor Deming never stood a chance โ€“ Surfing Complexity

Poor Deming never stood a chance โ€“ Surfing Complexity

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucker hails from Austria-Hungary (like me, Drucker emigrated to the U.S. as an adult) and Deming was born in the U.S., it was Drucker that proved to be more influential in America. Demingโ€™s influence was much greater in Japan than it ever was the U.S. If youโ€™ve ever been at an organization that…
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โ€œThe Cry of the Rich and the Terribleโ€: The Song That TV Villains Love to Sing | television

โ€œThe Cry of the Rich and the Terribleโ€: The Song That TV Villains Love to Sing | television

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Kit Harington,The Night Manager,Gilbert and Sullivan,The West Wing,The Simpsons,Television & radio,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Industry, Season 4, Episode 6.If you're up on the latest developments in the industry (if not, proceed with caution) you'll know that Kit Harington's character, Henry Mock, spent Season 4 in more of a nightmare than usual. He was depressed, drunk, suicidal and lustful in equal measure, all of which culminated in the final episode in a sweaty affair with a man in a…
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Elehear Delight hearing aid review: Good fit, poor sound

Elehear Delight hearing aid review: Good fit, poor sound

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Headphones,Product Review โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Delight hearing aids come pre-configured with four additional environmental modes in addition to the default, with room for four additional modes that you can create yourself. Unfortunately, none of these made any real difference to overall hearing clarity, no matter what type of setup I found myself in. Streaming media sounds fair but is largely devoid of bass and unusable in noisy environments.Finally, the Delight system provided fairly minimal support even in the best-case scenario (watching TV in…
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Winter Olympics 2026: What went wrong with British short track speed skating?

Winter Olympics 2026: What went wrong with British short track speed skating?

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Eight years later, the latest allocation of funding for the sport in the UK was made at just under ยฃ2 million in total for short track speed skating, figure skating and long track speed skating.So the short track falls into the trap of the situation that many Olympic sports in Britain face โ€“ they need to perform at the Games to get more funding, but without the funding they struggle to succeed.Asked about the work being done to reform the short track, British Olympic Association…
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Champions League: Is a play-off match really such a bad thing?

Champions League: Is a play-off match really such a bad thing?

โœจ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: So, if you finish outside the top eight and have two more games to play, will that reduce your chances of Champions League glory?As Paris Saint-Germain demonstrated so spectacularly last season, this is most certainly not the case.In the 2024-25 season, Luis Enrique's side were facing elimination from the Champions League when they lost 2-0 at home to Manchester City in the seventh round of the league stage.But Paris Saint-Germain won 4-2 and then defeated Stuttgart 4-1 in another must-win game to finish 15th in…
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SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: SvarDOS Main page I Packages I Help I Forum for PCs of the 1980-2000 era SvarDOS is an open-source project that is meant to integrate the best out of the currently available DOS tools, drivers and games. DOS development has been abandoned by commercial players a long time ago, mostly during early nineties. Nowadays it survives solely through the efforts of hobbyists and retro-enthusiasts, but this is a highly sparse and unorganized ecosystem. SvarDOS aims to collect available DOS software and make it easy to…
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TV Tonight: Inside the rise and fall of Tony Blair | television

TV Tonight: Inside the rise and fall of Tony Blair | television

โœจ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Tony Blair ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Tony Blair's story9pm on Channel 4โ€œNever lose your temper, except on purpose.โ€ Tony Blair's negotiating advice to his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, is a clear insight into the man in general. This three-part deep dive shows Blair as a measured communicator, but an insubstantial political thinker whose greatest achievements were founded on being all things to all people. What fueled his insistence on power? From his home constituency of Sedgefield to the horror of Iraq, this unique political…
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