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Earlier this week, Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER-1.6, a new vision and language model to help robots make sense of their surroundings. To show off its capabilities, Boston Dynamics—which has an agreement to use Gemini in its humanoid robots—published a video of its robot dogs using the model to read a thermometer during an inspection of an industrial facility.Despite the eye-catching demos, Google’s new robotics model only notched incremental gains over previous models in terms of its ability.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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I was unsure if my parents would notice that the voice on the other end wasn't mine - or that it was mine, sort of, but it wasn't me. The voice said hello, asked my dad how he was doing, and asked again when he didn't respond quickly enough. "What is that, Gaby?" He realized […] Read more ›
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Casely first recalled over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pods wireless power banks in April 2025 following 51 reports of their lithium-ion batteries "overheating, expanding or catching fire," resulting in six minor burn injuries. Both the company and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) are reannouncing the same recall today following 28 additional reports […] Read more ›
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Standing in my childhood kitchen, I watched my father check my tire pressure for the third time this visit while the words "I love you" sat unspoken between us like a family heirloom nobody knows how to use. Read more ›
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Данный таск был частью 5 сезона CTF, который проходил на площадке ACLabs. Машина необычная с увлекательным сюжетом и интересными уязвимостями.Условие задачи:Борис — старый почтовый голубь. Катя, его голубка, улетела к наглому Воробью. Три дня Борис пил дешёвое пойло и строчил план мести. Теперь этот план у тебя. Помоги Борису пробраться в цифровое гнездо Воробья, украсть его аккаунт и стать рутом. Следуй за пьяными записками — там всё сказано и даже... Read more ›
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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has started appearing at retailers, with Amazon currently offering the CPU at $1,000 — $100 above the suggest retail pricing. Read more ›
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Last year, Apple achieved its goal of removing all plastic from the packaging of its products – now every Apple gadget you buy comes in 100% fiber-based packaging that you can recycle at home. The gadgets themselves feature a lot of recycled materials. The company used 30% recycled materials across the products that it shipped last year. And in three specific areas, the recycled content is 100%: all Apple-designed batteries... Read more ›
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After six weeks of fighting, Israel and Lebanon appear to be on the verge of a ceasefire. President Donald Trump announced the 10-day pause, which he said would help “achieve PEACE” between the countries, in a social media post on Thursday. The ceasefire is set to take effect at 5 pm ET. The agreement came […] Read more ›
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Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce authoritarian politics. Read more ›
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He taught me to fix everything in a house except the crushing weight of inherited silence, and now I'm learning the language of feelings at forty like a child learning to speak. Read more ›
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Sherbrooke firm secures first private capital after deploying its tech in space. Read more ›
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Playdate is getting a third season of curated, surprise games, Panic announced today. We don't know much beyond the fact that Season Three is officially happening, but Panic's Head of Playdate Greg Maletic said in an announcement video that it will be here "in time for the holidays" this year. Considering we had to wait a whole three years for Season Two to come out following Season One's release with... Read more ›
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'Dungeon Masters' will feature both current and unreleased material from the legendary TTRPG in its first in-house actual play series. Read more ›
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Anna’s Archive avoided the $13 trillion sought in the lawsuit, but the final bill is still eye-watering. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is pulling top engineers from across the company into its new Applied AI Engineering division—whether they like it or not—as part of its aggressive push to step up its competitiveness in the AI model arms race. In an internal memo sent to employees on Wednesday and seen by The ... Read more ›
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OpenAI said Thursday it was making several changes to how it bills companies that use its AI coding agent, Codex, due to rising use of the tools. The changes are geared towards matching the amount customers spend more closely with how much they use the products. OpenAI on Thursday announced a ... Read more ›
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This year’s HumanX—the second AI conference from the team that puts on Money 20/20 and Shoptalk—had a different vibe than the inaugural event did. The fact that it was held at Moscone Center in San Francisco instead of a posh hotel in Las Vegas was a big part of it.While the location made it easier to attract high-profile speakers, it also meant that many attendees appeared to stop by between... Read more ›
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Here’s a suggestion for OpenAI’s management: Stop issuing long-range revenue forecasts to investors. While we at The Information love getting our hands on these, as they make for good stories, it’s doubtful they’re doing OpenAI much good. How can anyone take seriously forecasts for revenue reaching as far out as 2030? (OpenAI projects total revenue will reach $284 billion by then, compared with $13 billion last year.) Analyst Jim Chanos... Read more ›
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SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said. The loss figure includes xAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence company that SpaceX acquired in February. The net loss, as well as other financial figures that consolidate SpaceX and xAI’s performance, haven’t been previously reported. Read more ›
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Google has committed to use future generations of Intel’s central processing unit chips for multiple years in its data centers, the companies announced on Thursday. The announcement is a win for Intel, which received a $9 billion investment from the U.S. last fall after its shares dropped more ... Read more ›
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Anthropic is exploring potentially designing its own chips, according to a report in Reuters, though the effort remains in its early stages. Developing in-house silicon would take significantly longer than striking additional cloud deals to ease its near-term compute constraints. Still, ... Read more ›
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Peter Hoeschele, an OpenAI executive who helped launch the firm’s Stargate data center initiative, has left the startup, according to a person with direct knowledge. Hoeschele was on the original OpenAI Stargate team, which intended to help OpenAI build and operate its own data centers. However, ... Read more ›
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Three senior OpenAI executives who helped launch the company’s original Stargate data center initiative have left or are preparing to depart the ChatGPT maker in the coming days, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Peter Hoeschele, an OpenAI executive who played a key role in getting the Stargate effort off the ground, has already left the company, one of the people said. Two others—Shamez Hemani, who... Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Chair Jereme Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday summoned leaders of the major U.S. banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, to discuss the cybersecurity risks from Anthropic’s new model, Claude Mythos, Bloomberg reported. The gathering ... Read more ›
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