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Baidu's new Apollo Go robotaxi brings significant advances in affordability and scalability that should make U.S. competitors like Waymo a bit nervous, according to The Verge's Andrew J. Hawkins. From the report: The RT6 is the sixth generation of Apollo Go's driverless vehicle, which made its official debut in May 2024. It's a purpose-built, Level 4 autonomous vehicle, meaning it's built without the need for a human driver. And here's the thing that should make US competitors nervous: adopting a battery-sw
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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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Comcast-owned Sky will acquire ITV’s media and entertainment divisions in a £1.6 billion deal. ITV’s broadcast channels and the ITVX streaming service will remain free-to-air. Negotiations started back in November and this is what the two companies agreed on. Sky will pay ITV £1.2 billion in cash and it will transfer Love Productions (which makes The Great British Bake Off among other things). Additionally, Sky will pay £200 million to... Read more ›
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Electric planes may still sound futuristic, but one aviation company is already testing battery-powered aircraft that could change short-haul flights. Read more ›
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Mental imagery might not be as central to complex human thought than we believed, philosophers say. Read more ›
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Comporta's magic was scarcity and silence. Sublime's expansion bets it can grow without diluting either. Read more ›
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A wildly creative YouTube experiment lets you steer through Rainbow Road and swap Mario Kart characters by changing the video’s caption language. Read more ›
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A Montréal startup is using generative AI to try to speed up one of the most laborious parts of real estate transactions in Québec—and eventually, the rest of the country. The news: Proptech startup Paraito announced on Monday it had raised $2.65 million CAD in equity pre-seed funding, led by Inovia Capital and with participation from Boreal Ventures. It has also raised roughly $650,000 from friends and family, including individual... Read more ›
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With the third beta of macOS 27, Apple added new Golden Gate-themed wallpaper options to the Mac. There are new Golden Gate Sunset and Golden Gate Night options, both of which join the prior Golden Gate abstract wallpaper that Apple introduced with the initial beta. Golden Gate Sunset and Golden Gate Night animate when unlocking the Mac, and can be set as a screen saver. When used as a screen... Read more ›
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Последние два года индустрия разработки меняется быстрее, чем за предыдущие двадцать лет. Почти каждую неделю появляются новые ИИ-модели, ИИ IDE и кодинг-агенты. Одни говорят, что это очередной пузырь. Другие уверены, что профессия программиста исчезнет уже через несколько лет.За последние полгода мне довелось использовать AI практически во всех своих проектах. В какой-то момент я поймал себя на мысли, что почти перестал писать код руками. Именно тогда я задумался: действительно ли ИИ... Read more ›
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You've probably heard of a Sherman tank, but there were actually multiple Sherman models. One in particular had a very strange engine running it. Read more ›
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A few simple adjustments to your settings will opt you out of Google's latest AI-training method. Read more ›
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Цивилизация... Какие у вас ассоциации с этим словом? А если написать его по-другому, например, на английском. Вот так - Civilization... Ядерный Ганди? Отче наш на Суахили? Сражения лучников против танков? Лично у меня возникла несколько другая ассоциация - удобный интерфейс технологий... Вот это вот самое дерево технологий, когда ты чётко понимаешь, что и за чем тебе нужно изучить, чтобы прийти к конечной цели. Какие навыки идут за какими, что можно... Read more ›
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Canadian digital asset manager 3iQ will move six TSX-listed products to Anchorage Digital, the OCC-chartered crypto bank, for custody, settlement and staking. Read more ›
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An iPhone user accidentally sent ‘sensitive’ texts to the wrong person after their partner made one key mistake. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of user trust." Last week, a web developer known as "Thereallo" was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using "prompt steganography" to... Read more ›
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New Small Business Procurement Program will standardize contracts and integrate AI. Read more ›
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All of the way back in February of this year, Google started rolling out a new Google Photos design on iOS that would introduce a floating bottom bar. This would mark a change from attached bottom bars in Google apps to this new floating pill shape that modernizes the styling. Weirdly, up until today, most... Read the original post: Google Photos New Design Just Showed Up on Android Read more ›
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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch: Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature... Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next... Read more ›
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Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly... Read more ›
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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince,... Read more ›
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"Another breach at Tata has leaked details about Apple's iPhone 18, along with documents belonging to several other Tata clients," writes Longtime Slashdot reader Ritz_Just_Ritz. "It's becoming a recurring theme for the company." Reuters reports: Reuters has previously reported the Tata Electronics leak of more than 200,000 files on the dark web by World Leaks had files with purported component design papers of older iPhones and some parts of Tesla... Read more ›
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California's Protect Our Games Act, which would require publishers to warn players before shutting down paid online games and offer refunds or continued access, failed to advance after a state Senate committee vote. Four state senators voted in favor, three voted against, and four abstained. Engadget reports: The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators. Assemblymember... Read more ›
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