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Breaking up (Google) is hard to do

Breaking up Google’s ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michael Jordan – dubiously possible and a huge amount of work. Those were some of the analogies witnesses testifying in Google’s defense told a…

Consume Me is a raw and funny memoir in video game form

There’s a lot of math in diet culture. It’s all numbers – calories in, calories burned – and a constant tally running in one’s head. In some ways, disordered eating can be considered a disturbed sort of strategy game, which…

Acer’s latest Spin 514 is so close to Chromebook greatness

I was cautiously optimistic about Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 when I tested a preproduction model last month, but the final unit is here now and it sticks the landing. Well, mostly. Acer’s latest convertible Chromebook has zippy performance and…

Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open source multimodal models

Alibaba’s Qwen group has released two new small-scale multimodal models, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking. The article Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open source multimodal models appeared first on THE DECODER.