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Like many lonely children, Lucas Rizzotto had an imaginary friend: a talking microwave called Magnetron. As the years passed, the pals drifted apart. But Rizzotto never forgot about Magnetron. When OpenAI released the GPT-3 language model, Rizzotto saw a chance to rekindle the friendship. The self-described “full-time mad scientist” chronicled the resurrection in a YouTube video. Some of the story sounds too good to be true. We’ve asked Rizzotto for further evidence that it’s real. But while we await his re
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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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Продолжаем разбираться с тем, как научить ROS2 понимать ваш язык программирования. В прошлый раз мы рассмотрели создание и запуск минимальной программы, теперь поговорим про работу с сообщениями. Свою библиотеку я разрабатывал для Lua, поэтому далее в примерах будет встречаться упоминание этого языка.Обмен данными играет в ROS2 ключевую роль. К счастью, практически все задачи, связанные с передачей и приемом сообщений берут на себя библиотеки rcl и rmw, нам "всего лишь" необходимо... Read more ›
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Poppi cofounder Allison Ellsworth said she's teaching her children to invest. She exited Poppi after PepsiCo acquired it in 2025 for $1.95 billion. Read more ›
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"They turned out to be great men, because the values I gave them they put to use when they left," Kay McConaughey said. Read more ›
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Savannah reiterated her call for help, asking anyone with information to come forward, and said the $1 million reward for information was available. Read more ›
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It took Ruth Barry three years to get a US green card. Then she moved her family back to Berlin. Read more ›
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In Europe the reliance on American digital services is now so profound that daily life would almost cease to function without them Read more ›
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German-based deeptech startup NanoStruct has raised €2.6 million Seed funding. Founded by Dr Henriette Maaß, Enno Schatz, and Kai Leibfried, the company develops nanostructured sensor chips for the... Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for May 11, No. 595. Read more ›
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Graphene argues that Google's device verification systems could lock users into approved hardware and software. Read more ›
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Quinn Tools is one of the many in-house brands you can find when browsing the shelves at Harbor Freight, and it's got many particularly affordable hand tools. Read more ›
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The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project "following legal threats from Bambu Lab," reports Tom's Hardware: Jarczak's fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bambu Connect, a middleware application that severely limits OrcaSlicer's access to remote printer functions in the name of security. Jarczak said in a note on... Read more ›
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I started waking up at 5am because I’d read enough founder essays and listened to enough podcasts to convince myself that the hour you wake up was the line between people who were serious about their life and people who weren’t. I stuck with it for two years. I want to write down what I ... Read more Read more ›
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Two years after a Beijing engineer started building dexterous hands inspired by a Japanese cartoon, his company holds 80% of the global market and is doubling its valuation in months. Robotic hands are not, conventionally, the part of a humanoid robot that investors get excited about. The legs walk, the arms lift, and the head, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Won-Jin Lee, a marketing veteran, takes over the Visual Display business after a quarter of declining TV profits. His predecessor moves to AI and robotics. Samsung Electronics has changed the head of its television business for the first time in more than two years, an unusually direct admission that something is not quite right at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A bench trial in Santa Fe could force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn mental health fund. Meta has threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the state instead. In March, a New Mexico jury reached a verdict that no American jury had reached before. Meta, the company once known as Facebook, had violated […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms’ portfolio companies. OpenAI’s DeployCo arrived first; this one is bigger. There is a kind of business school question that has been quietly answered over the past month, without anyone formally asking it. The question is: […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A $725bn hyperscaler capex ramp and a 20% HBM price rise have made the South Korean chipmaker the second-most valuable company on the KOSPI. The harder question is when supply catches demand. There is a small joke in semiconductor circles about which part of an AI server is most expensive. The graphics processor used to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Western debate about China’s industrial rise keeps circling the same question: how much of it is subsidised? The European Commission’s anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines have produced tariff schedules that treat government funding as the primary explanation for Chinese competitiveness. The US Treasury and Commerce departments have imposed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell killers built for cancer can rewire how autoimmune diseases are treated. Candid Therapeutics is two years old. It does not have an approved drug. Its lead programme has been tested […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Three days after suggesting it might target up to $4bn at $40bn, the AI chipmaker has marketed 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, lining the deal up with its February private valuation rather than above it. Cerebras Systems was preparing to seek up to $4bn at a roughly $40bn valuation in its long-awaited initial public […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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After a 30% year-to-date drawdown, Monday’s Q1 results are Palantir’s first chance to argue, not assume, that it does not belong in the broader AI software multiple compression. Until two weeks ago, Palantir was, by some measures, the best-performing large-cap software stock of the AI cycle. It had outpaced Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe by […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 months, the financial story behind the AI build-out has been a story about […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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