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Roomba manufacturer iRobot filed for bankruptcy today, reports Bloomberg.
After 35 years, iRobot reached a "restructuring support agrement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Compny."
Under the restructuring, vacuum cleaner maker Shenzhen PICEA will receive the entire equity stake in the reorganised company... The plan will allow the debtor to remain as a going concern and continue to meet its commitments t
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He also directed 'Stand By Me,' 'A Few Good Men,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'This Is Spinal Tap,' and many more. Read more ›
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After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot announced it will enter Chapter 11 protection and plans to be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotic. The company says […] Read more ›
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Zurich-based cybersecurity company Soverli has raised €2.2 million ($2.6 million) in pre-Seed funding to introduce a sovereign smartphone architecture that works alongside Android and iOS. The round was led by Founderful, with backing from the ETH Zurich Foundation and Venture Kick, as well as prominent figures from the cybersecurity industry. In September, the company secured ... Read more ›
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Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, were found dead in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on Sunday. Read more ›
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There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked. Read more ›
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The products have attracted fresh capital every trading day since launch, lifting cumulative net inflows to about $975 million. Read more ›
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Google Lens now opens Chrome’s AI panel in Canary builds, signaling a future where Chrome offers contextual, chat-based assistance directly alongside web content. Read more ›
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In a lawsuit challenging an Australian law barring children under 16 from having social media accounts, Reddit argues it's not a social media company. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Dec. 15, No. 448. Read more ›
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"I think she wanted me to know throughout my life, she wanted to hand us our lives early. Like you're responsible," Michelle Obama said. Read more ›
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Two gunmen opened fire on a celebration of the first day of Hanukkah at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 15 and injuring dozens more. One of the gunmen was killed, and another alleged shooter was injured and is now in custody. What do we know about the attack in Australia? Australian officials have described […] Read more ›
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SPhotonix says it has moved its so-called 5D Memory Crystal technology out of the lab and closer to real-world deployment. Read more ›
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Give your Mac a boost with this Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac 2021 lifetime license, on sale now for just $49.97 (reg. $219). Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs "plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo." And yet "less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said." They reported the most success using AI in marketing and customer service and challenges using it in... Read more ›
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Iowa 80 in Walcott, Iowa, is the Disney World for truckers. But why are family-owned truck stops like this one drying up across America? Read more ›
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SpaceX livestreams every single one of its rocket launches, most of them involving its workhorse Falcon 9 vehicle. The vast majority of the Falcon 9 launches take place from Florida’s Space Coast, but the company also uses Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for occasional missions. Its latest launch from the West Coast took place ... Read more ›
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As the smartphone market takes a breather ahead of the holiday season we saw a very familiar face return as the most popular in our database. In the absence of big name announcements, the Samsung Galaxy A56 managed to add another gold medal to its unrivaled cabinet. The Poco F8 Ultra thus settled for second place after two weeks on top, while another long-time favorite completes the podium - the... Read more ›
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The project, led by neuroengineer Viktor Tóth, has evolved into a second-generation setup that significantly expands what the rats can do inside the Doom engine. Read more ›
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"A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite," reports PC Magazine: On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of coordination from the Chinese launch provider CAS Space. "When satellite operators do not share ephemeris for their satellites, dangerously close approaches can occur in space," he wrote, referring to the publication of... Read more ›
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Scientists are uncovering a new possibility behind long COVID’s stubborn symptoms: hidden infections that awaken or emerge alongside SARS-CoV-2. Evidence is mounting that viruses like Epstein-Barr and even latent tuberculosis may flare up when COVID disrupts the immune system, creating lingering fatigue, brain fog, and other debilitating issues. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters. The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has quietly added a new AI feature to its Kindle iOS app -- a feature that "lets you ask questions about the book you're reading and receive spoiler-free answers," according to an Amazon announcement. The company says the feature, which is called Ask this Book, serves as "your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without... Read more ›
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Qualcomm has acquired RISC-V startup Ventana to strengthen its CPU ambitions beyond mobile, "reinforcing its commitment and leadership in the development of the RISC-V standard and ecosystem," the company said in a press release. CRN Magazine reports: The San Diego-based company said Ventana's expertise in RISC-V, a free and open alternative to the Arm and x86 instruction set architectures, will enhance its CPU engineering capabilities and complement "existing efforts to... Read more ›
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What triggered that Airbus emergency software recall? The BBC reports that Airbus's initial investigation into an aircraft's sudden drop in altitude linked it "to a malfunction in one of the aircraft's computers that controls moving parts on the aircraft's wings and tail." But that malfunction "seems to have been triggered by cosmic radiation bombarding the Earth on the day of the flight..." The BBC believes radiation from space "could become... Read more ›
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A startup called Operation Bluebird is petitioning the US Patent and Trademark Office to strip X Corp of the "Twitter" and "tweet" trademarks, hoping to relaunch a new Twitter with the old brand, bird logo, and "town square" vibe. "The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.'s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark," the petition... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected: "Extensions must not be AI-generated While it is not prohibited to use AI as a learning aid or a development tool (i.e. code completions), extension developers... Read more ›
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Tourists from dozens of countries including the UK could be asked to provide a five-year social media history as a condition of entry to the United States, under a new proposal unveiled by American officials. From a report: The new condition would affect people from dozens of countries who are eligible to visit the US for 90 days without a visa, as long as they have filled out an Electronic... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: perm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, including CBS News' partner network BBC News, has revealed. Some children conceived using the sperm have already died from cancer, and the vast majority of those who inherited the gene will develop cancer in their... Read more ›
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In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he'd found the whole photographic process "really annoying.... I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the mechanical engineers..." "You take your picture, you have to wait a long time, you have to fiddle with these chemicals. Well, you know, I was... Read more ›
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The Washington Post's top standards editor Thursday decried "frustrating" errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a report: Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper's mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could "shape... Read more ›
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