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Amazon is buying satellite communications company Globalstar for $10.8 billion to expand its Leo satellite-internet network and compete more directly with SpaceX's Starlink. The deal also includes a partnership with Apple to support satellite connectivity for iPhones and Apple Watches, with Amazon planning voice, data, and messaging services starting in 2028. The New York Times reports: Leo was Amazon's move to enter the market for beaming high-speed internet to the ground from orbit. That is an arena domin
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OpenGrall — модульный фреймворк для роботов на LLM, который решает три главные проблемы «тормознутых» проектов: 1. LLM принимает решения только высокого уровня. 2. Сенсоры работают асинхронно, никто не ждёт «отстающих». 3. Массив данных структурируется в тщательно выверенный, короткий промпт с весами и возрастом. И другие решения насущных проблем. В статье: архитектура SensorMemory и WeightCalculator, реальные промпты, кэширование решений, эпизодическая память инструкций человека и автономное целеполагани Read more ›
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FrenchAgriodor, an agritech company developing crop protection solutions based onnatural plant scents, has raised €15 million in Series A funding to accelerateits international expansion and the deplo... Read more ›
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SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments startup, today announced that it has raised €2.4 million ($2.8 million) in pre-seed funding to build out its new payment infrastructure platform, built for agentic commerce. The round was led by European FinTech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures, both investors in ... Read more ›
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Wawa gas stations are a staple of the Mid-Atlantic, making them a fan favorite. The ownership structure of the company is as unique as its Canada goose logo. Read more ›
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The Tech.eu Summit London 2026 is set to take place on 21–22 April 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. With the event now just days away, this is the final opportunity to secure a ticket ... Read more ›
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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn belatedly acknowledges that measuring AI usage for performance reviews distracts from completing the actual job. Read more ›
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In a major breakthrough, scientists have observed electrons in graphene flowing like a nearly frictionless liquid, defying a core law of physics. This exotic quantum state not only reveals new fundamental behavior but could also unlock powerful future technologies. Read more ›
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Soaring housing costs have put recent homebuyers at a steep disadvantage. The effects could warp America's real estate market for decades. Read more ›
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Netgear is the first retail router brand to win an FCC exemption from the foreign-made router ban, giving it a clearer route to keep launching new models while rivals face tougher questions. Read more ›
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The PayPal Mafia member said he's gone iPhone, iPad, and smartwatch only. Some startups are following suit. Read more ›
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С опытом у RAG-инженера накапливается солидный багаж эвристик и инструментов, которые в определенных задачах превосходят по качеству или скорости стандартные. Фраза «а для этого у меня есть собственный ретривер» звучит с некоторым снобизмом, но добавляет к профессионализму несколько пойнтов. Хотите в свою коллекцию ретривер, который умеет работать с терминами, плохо различимыми в векторном пространстве эмбеддинга, в частности с именами и названиями? Тогда давайте перейдём от снобизма к практике. Начнём с... Read more ›
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A BMJ Open study found that five leading AI chatbots often returned flawed health advice, with open-ended questions triggering the worst answers and citation quality falling apart under scrutiny. Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from the New York Post: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble and how easy it is to find repairability information, gave Apple a C-minus in laptop repairability and a D-minus in cell phone repairability.... Read more ›
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Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a large virtual screen in visionOS. It supports up to 4K resolution and will let you dynamically adjust the curve of the display. The Mac Observer reports: Steam Link does not support VR titles in this beta, and Valve clearly states that the app is limited to 2D game streaming,... Read more ›
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Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt's developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. "I didn't receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings," Mounir Idrassi, VeraCrypt's developer, told 404 Media. From the report: VeraCrypt is an open-source tool for... Read more ›
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Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang's leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The model accepts voice, text and image inputs, but produces... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternative source), as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran's Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Union, told the FT on Wednesday that Iran... Read more ›
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Starting May 20th, Amazon will stop Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier. After that date, those devices will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content." Owners can still read content already on the device, but if an affected device is reset or deregistered after the cutoff, it can't be re-registered. The Verge reports: The complete list of affected... Read more ›
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A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest circumstantial candidate yet for being Satoshi Nakamoto. The report citing overlaps in writing style, ideology, technical background, and old posts that outlined key parts of Bitcoin years before its launch. Carreyrou is a renowned investigative journalist and author, best known for exposing the massive fraud at Theranos while at the Wall Street... Read more ›
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The FBI says (PDF) Iran-linked hackers disrupted internet-connected systems used by U.S. oil, gas, and water companies. Even with the recent two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel, hackers backing Tehran say they won't end their retaliatory cyberattacks. The Hill reports: The report warned that similar companies across the country should be aware of an increased push by hackers to take over programmable logic controller (PLC) systems,... Read more ›
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A $500,000 "Survivor"-style corporate retreat for 120 Plex employees in Honduras "turned into a week-long disaster involving illness, wild animals, armed guards, and employees stranded on a remote island," reports the Daily Beast. The CEO was bedridden by E. coli, staff were collapsing in brutal heat during Navy SEAL-led drills, there were fire ant attacks, uncooked food, and failing utilities. At one point, a porcupine even crashed through the ceiling... Read more ›
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