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This week, escooter company Bird launched the latest tech to stop bad rider behavior. The Bird VPS (Visual Parking System) was shown on stage at Google I/O, demonstrating the latest tech to monitor escooter parking. The tool is powered by Google’s ARCore Geospatial API, enabling Bird to geo-localize parked scooters with pinpoint accuracy. This is achieved by taking advantage of the tech giant’s years of 3D scanning, global Street View data, and augmented reality technology. Let’s look at how it works and w
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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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Parkour classes for older adults focus on balance, strength, and recovering safely from falls. See how these seniors are redefining healthy aging. Read more ›
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"Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch," writes The Verge. While it's not available for downloads in most locations, Meta's Pocket will allow people "to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts," writes TechCrunch. They're called "gizmos", and Pocket "also offers a scrollable feed where you can play with gizmos... Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. The finding could lead to new treatments aimed at slowing neuron loss by interrupting the process before cells are destroyed. Read more ›
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The Galaxy S26 Ultra has plenty going for it, but it isn't the only Android phone worth considering before you spend flagship money on your next phone. Read more ›
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Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools. Companies like Forge Prep and Alpha […] Read more ›
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England vs Mexico kicks off at 1am BST on BBC One. Find TV channel, live stream, build-up time and latest Mexico weather forecast Read more ›
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Tech IPOs are definitely getting more interesting. On the heels of last week’s debuts by Bending Spoons and Lime, this week we’ve got South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix, which is expected to list on the Nasdaq on Friday, adding to its existing South Korean stock exchange listing. Hynix will raise money as part of the Nasdaq listing, making investor reception to the offering another indicator of the IPO... Read more ›
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Streaming services use trackers to check whether you’re watching adverts, meaning ad-blockers can cause problems. Read more ›
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Despite championing remote working, the technology industry was among the first sectors to row back on this new era Read more ›
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"Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch. That's the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp's corporate card/bill pay data as well as Revelio Labs' workforce records from 21,599 U.S. firms: According to the report, "high-intensity adopters" — firms that spend on average $30 per employee per month on AI in the first three... Read more ›
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Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of years ago. Evidence indicates the wolves were fed, possibly cared for, and may even have been managed or selectively bred long before modern ideas of domestication. Read more ›
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Handlebar risers can fundamentally alter how you ride your motorcycles and how it handles. Here's why you might want to have them installed. Read more ›
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Some of Waymo's driverless cars stalled during July 4th events in San Francisco. The company says the disruptions were caused by heavy traffic. Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Philo from outside the United States, and learn how to access it from anywhere abroad with a VPN. Read more ›
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ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would bind one of China’s largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DRAM maker. Neither company has confirmed the agreement publicly, and the figure comes from sourcing rather than […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to make the consequences of ignoring it considerably more expensive. New legislation announced this week would roughly double the maximum penalty for a systemic […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 and roughly $1.1bn […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, and in rival Swiggy have fallen sharply as Amazon accelerates its rapid-delivery business in the country. Eternal has slipped about […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of that pitch is small and unglamorous. A homebuilder in the northwest of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A coalition that owns nearly 400 local US newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. The publishers call AI training on their reporting a death knell for local journalism. It is the largest copyright case the local press has brought yet. Local newspapers report the meetings no algorithm attends. The council vote, the school board row, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Paul Meade, Apple’s Vision Pro chief, is leaving to build OpenAI’s devices. It is the most senior Apple defection yet, and it points the AI hardware talent war straight at Cupertino. Apple does not lose vice presidents to rivals. That is the unwritten rule, and for years it held. Designers slipped away to Jony Ive’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Mirendil, founded by two researchers who left Anthropic after barely a year, has raised $200m at a $1bn valuation. The pitch: sell the self-improving AI that the big labs build for themselves and guard from everyone else. The biggest AI labs share one private conviction. The fastest way to build better AI is to point […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, starting in July. Business Insider first reported […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most rocket companies buy their fuel. SpaceX wants to pipe it in. Filings in Texas show the company plans to build its own natural gas pipeline, an unusual move for a space firm, and a telling one. SpaceX calls the line Starpipe. It would run eight miles, about 13km, to Starbase, SpaceX’s company town on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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