Home Assistant 2026.7 simplifies automation with new intuitive triggers, an activity timeline, grouped updates, and many integrations.

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Microsoft is reportedly preparing thousands of job cuts as AI spending rises, with sales, consulting, and Xbox among the areas expected to be affected. If you can only read one tech story a day, this ...

A real-time conversational system: speak to it, and a photoreal avatar speaks back (lip-synced audio + video). Multi-turn, streaming end-to-end. speech → STT → LLM → TTS → lip-sync avatar → ...