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Starting on June 11, soccer fans will be filling stadiums across North America to watch the FIFA World Cup. Those driving to matches in the United States might also find themselves being the ones watched: WIRED identified 1,181 automatic license plate reader cameras, or ALPRs, within a five-mile radius of the 11 US stadiums playing host to the World Cup this summer. Most of those cameras are manufactured by Flock Safety.ALPRs are set up along roadsides by municipalities, businesses, schools, and private groups such as homeowners associations to continuously log the license plate of each car that passes by them.…

The economics of cloud-only LLM deployments have shifted. This guide walks through the complete implementation of a hybrid cloud-local LLM routing system, covering LiteLLM as the unified gateway, Ollama for local model serving, Anthropic’s Claude API as the cloud tier, LangChain for orchestration, and Next.js as the application layer. Table of Contents Why Hybrid LLM Architecture Is Now a Production Necessity How to Build a Hybrid Cloud-Local LLM Routing System Deploy a local model server (Ollama) and pull quantized models matching your task profile and available VRAM. Configure LiteLLM as a unified proxy gateway with model aliases, fallback chains, and…

We all know that Amazon will offer probably the best deals of the year so far on many of the greatest phones and mobile accessories money can buy in just a couple of weeks, but what if you’re not willing to wait for the e-commerce giant’s Prime Day 2026 start on June 23?For wireless earbuds shoppers in general and hardcore Apple fans in particular, I have a sizzling hot summer promotion to recommend today that doesn’t require a Prime membership or anything of that sort and is unlikely to be eclipsed by any major US retailer anytime soon (if ever).…

Avatar: The Last Airbender is having a moment right now. While it’s not all good news, as the Avatar sequel film leaked in its entirety earlier this year, if you ever cared about Nickelodeon’s anime-inspired series, you’re probably eating right now with the movie’s official release on the way later this year, a new sequel series called Seven Havens in the works, and the second season of the live-action show coming out on Netflix later this month. However, one piece of Paramount’s reinvigorated push to get airbenders on screens that I’m feeling could deserve just as much fanfare as a…

Slowly but surely, artificial intelligence is finding its way into sports. The latest venue? This year’s World Cup, where Google will be partnering with the defending champions Argentina to showcase Gemini on and off the pitch.The agreement with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) makes Gemini the main global sponsor of the national team. As part of the collaboration, Google Gemini’s logo will appear on the Albiceleste’s training kit and the AI tool itself will be used to analyze the team’s plays, form, performance, and statistics.“It’s not just about opening the door [to] AI,” says Google spokesperson Flor Sabatini, “but about…

How to Run Llama 4 Scout on Apple Silicon via Ollama MLX Verify your Mac has Apple Silicon (M1+) with at least 16 GB unified memory and macOS 13+. Install Ollama via Homebrew and confirm the MLX backend is active in server logs. Select a quantization level (Q4–Q8) matched to your Mac’s memory tier. Pull the appropriate Llama 4 Scout model tag from the Ollama registry. Configure environment variables for memory management and context window size. Run interactive inference with –verbose to validate token throughput. Monitor memory pressure during generation to ensure swap stays minimal. Integrate with Python applications using…

For years, sharing a photo album between an iPhone and an Android phone has been a small nightmare, the kind of thing that makes you reach for a group chat instead. At WWDC26, Apple finally did something about it. iCloud Shared Albums are getting cross-platform photo sharing with full-resolution support this fall, and as someone who lives on both sides of the iPhone and Pixel divide, I am genuinely glad to see it.What Apple actually announced The new Shared Albums let invited friends view and add to an album at full resolution, whatever phone they use. | Image by Apple…

Capcom is about to completely defang one of the coolest mechanics in Dragon’s Dogma 2, and I’m pissed about it. Come the game’s August update, the infamous Dragonsplague will be an utter non-issue, and I think Capcom is cowardly for doing it. If you don’t know what Dragonsplague is and ever intend to play Dragon’s Dogma 2, please get out of here, because it’s very cool and you should experience it firsthand, preferably before the August update nerfs it into inconsequentiality. Everyone else, listen up: Dragonsplague is a “disease” in Dragon’s Dogma 2 that can afflict your Pawns, the NPC…

When you tune in to the 2026 World Cup, you’ll get a peek at something you probably haven’t seen before: an up-close live feed at what’s happening on the field from the referee’s perspective.Broadcasts will incorporate a point-of-view captured feet away from the action by a tiny camera attached to the official’s headset, sitting just near their temple. The images are be beamed wirelessly to the broadcast booth, where the video is digitally smoothed in real time and incorporated into the televised program.If you’ve ever wanted to know what the game looks like from a ref’s vantage point—whether you want…

Running a local LLM on a 10GB VRAM budget has become a genuinely practical option in 2026. By the end of this article, you will have a fully operational local LLM setup producing 30 to 45 tokens per second, integrated with development tooling, and tuned for the specific memory constraints of your hardware. How to Set Up a Local LLM on 10GB VRAM Measure your actual free VRAM with nvidia-smi under normal desktop conditions to establish your real memory budget.Select a quantized 7B–8B model (Llama 3.1 8B or DeepSeek Coder 6.7B) at Q5_K_M quantization (~5.3 GB).Install Ollama via the one-line…