Voice-first means designing apps primarily around voice interactions as the default input method, but successful implementations combine voice with visual feedback, touch, and other modalities for better user experience, error correction, and context switching. Pure voice-only interfaces often frustrate users due to limitations like background noise or misinterpretations.

Key limitations include challenges with background noise, accents and dialects outside training data, domain-specific terminology, overlapping speakers, and poor audio quality, making voice reliable only for focused applications rather than all scenarios. Continuous training and multimodal fallbacks are essential to address these.

A NASA authorization bill is legislation that sets the agency's policy priorities and directs its activities in key areas, such as lunar exploration and scientific research. Unlike appropriations bills that provide funding, authorization bills codify NASA's missions and strategic direction. Congress last passed a standalone NASA authorization in 2017, though a pared-down version was included in the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. Authorization bills work alongside the regular budget process to guide how NASA allocates its resources.

While appropriations bills provide NASA with money to operate, authorization bills establish the agency's strategic priorities and direct it to pursue specific missions and research areas. Congress uses authorization bills to steer NASA's activities beyond just funding—for example, to emphasize particular programs like Artemis lunar exploration or to require studies on specific topics. The 2026 bill addresses priorities such as Moon and Mars exploration, commercial space economy development, and next-generation technologies. Without authorization bills, Congress has fewer mechanisms to shape NASA's long-term direction and policy focus.

Panasonic's restructuring involves cutting approximately 10,000 jobs globally by March 2026, split evenly between Japan and overseas, mainly in sales and administrative roles, closing unprofitable businesses and facilities, and pivoting to high-growth areas like AI and biometrics, with expected one-time costs of 130-180 billion yen.

The 15% surge in Panasonic Holdings Corp. shares, the largest since 2014, was driven by investor optimism that the restructuring plan, including job cuts and business exits, will improve profitability by 300 billion yen and achieve a 10% return on equity by March 2029, despite short-term costs causing quarterly losses.

Recent reports conflict: AMD CEO Lisa Su stated the Steam Machine is on track for early 2026 shipment despite RAM shortages, but other sources indicate potential delays as Valve reassesses pricing amid rising component costs.

Global RAM shortages, driven by manufacturers prioritizing AI data centers, have spiked prices for RAM, GPUs, and storage, complicating Valve's pricing strategy for the Steam Machine and potentially raising its cost above initial $700-$800 estimates.

The AMD Radeon 890M is an integrated GPU with RDNA 3.5 architecture, 1024 shaders, up to 2900 MHz boost clock, and 5.9 TFLOPS performance, delivering capabilities comparable to a NVIDIA GTX 1650, enabling 1080p gaming at low to medium settings in modern titles.

The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is a high-end processor featuring an integrated Radeon 890M iGPU, supporting AI workloads, ray tracing, and modern video codecs like AV1, paired with 32GB DDR5 RAM and 2TB SSD for seamless multitasking and demanding applications.

A share buyback program is when a company repurchases its own outstanding shares from the market, reducing the total number of shares in circulation. Baidu's $5 billion buyback program through December 2028 is designed to enhance shareholder returns and signal confidence in the company's valuation. By reducing the share count, remaining shareholders own a larger percentage of the company, which can increase earnings per share. Baidu cited its 'substantial cash reserves' and 'sound financial management capabilities' as reasons for implementing this program, reflecting the company's strong financial position as it continues investing in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technologies.

A dividend is a cash payment distributed to shareholders from company profits. Baidu's announcement of its first-ever dividend in 2026 marks a significant shift in the company's capital allocation strategy, signaling a transition toward more regular shareholder returns. This move reflects Baidu's strategic focus on returning capital to shareholders as growth in its core advertising business slows. The company stated that future dividend distributions will be supported by sustainable funding sources, primarily derived from operating profits and potentially supplemented by proceeds from non-core asset disposals and other investment returns. However, Baidu did not specify the amount of the initial dividend, leaving the exact payout value to be determined by the board's discretion.

The Steam Machine is Valve's upcoming PC/console hybrid device, designed to offer the ease of use of consoles like the PS5 or Xbox Series X alongside PC-level customization and freedom. It is a small-form-factor gaming PC powered by AMD hardware, originally announced for a Q1 or early 2026 launch.

The potential delay stems from a global shortage and skyrocketing prices of DDR5 RAM and storage, driven by demand from AI data centers, with DRAM prices rising 178% to 258% from mid-September to mid-December 2025. Valve is hesitating to finalize pricing, as the device is expected to cost as much as a comparable gaming PC, potentially more than consoles like the PS5, leading to considerations of delays, spec changes, or barebones configurations.

CT scans use high-resolution computed tomography imaging to create detailed 3D models of mummies' internal structures non-destructively, distinguishing between bone, desiccated tissue, and artifacts even when densities are similar, thanks to advancements like dual-energy scanning techniques.

Nes-Min, from circa 330 BCE, showed signs of chronic lower back pain from a collapsed lumbar vertebra due to aging and wear; both priests exhibited dental disease and evidence of potential surgical interventions, providing insights into ancient Egyptian health and medical practices.

There is confusion and conflicting reports: some sources indicate Apple plans a custom Gemini model to run on its Private Cloud Compute servers for privacy, while others, including insights from Google's Q4 2025 earnings call and reports from Bloomberg and 9to5Mac, suggest the powerful Gemini 3 may require Google's cloud servers due to hardware needs.

Private Cloud Compute is Apple's privacy-focused server infrastructure, introduced in 2024, that processes AI requests without storing user data long-term and limits access tools to reduce cyber risks; however, it may not support the most powerful Gemini models, potentially necessitating Google's servers.