OSTechNix

32 Essential Python One-Liners for Python’s 32nd Anniversary

Python turns 32. Explore 32 practical Python one-liners that show why readability, simplicity, and power still define the ...
GitHub

Sample Code to Use Azure OpenAI Service's Whisper API from Python

This is a simple sample code that demonstrates how to use the Azure OpenAI Service's Whisper API to transcribe audio files using Python. Please make sure to replace the placeholder values in the .env ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
Wired

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
The New York Times

F.B.I. Letters Send Shivers Through California’s Political Inner Circle

The indictment of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff shocked many power players in California. Now, some wonder how far the investigation will spread. By Laurel Rosenhall Laurel Rosenhall has ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Trump, stop using our tax dollars to wreak havoc in Latin America

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The U.S. throughout history, and now during the Trump administration in particular, has always ...
Marketplace

The IRS' Direct File option is dead, though Free File lives on (with limitations)

The IRS has ended the Direct File program, which let some taxpayers file their annual returns for free using software developed by the government. Many tax preparation companies opposed this, as did ...
The White House

Designating English as the Official Language of The United States

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.