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This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufacturing on factory assembly lines. The project is supported by collaborative efforts of partners across China and the globe, including Google DeepMind, Northwestern University, and...
Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their perspectives even back on Earth.
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Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick admitted that he’s wrestling with some nervousness around the long-awaited launch of “Grand Theft Auto 6” in November. He also addressed the turnaround at Take-Two’s Zynga and the importance of investing in original properties during his conversation at the inaugural Interactive Innovation Conference in Las Vegas. Zelnick spoke April 28 […]...
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Air and Space - 1 day 26 min agoReef restoration is a slow process, with divers planting coral fragments one at a time by hand. But roboticists are now developing automated planters that could change the game...
A startup that develops software for car rental companies says its AI helper turned its core product into digital rubble in less than 10 seconds before confessing, "I violated every principle I was given." Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, says an AI coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4....
The battle over a proposal to tax billionaires to fund healthcare and other essential services is expected to intensify after supporters said they've gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Small top-tier Android is great to use, being fast, AI-loaded and with reasonable battery life, but falls short of rivals on camera Samsung's compact flagship phone hasn't changed much in a year, but the S26 is still one of the best smaller handsets available as rivals grow larger and larger. The S26 is the cheapest and smallest of this year's top Samsungs, dwarfed by the top-of-the-line S26 Ultra in size and price. But like everything with a memory chip at the moment, the S26 has increased...
PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company's entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company's founder Jeremy Crane said. The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6...
Elon Musk has accused his rival Sam Altman of trying to "steal" a charity as he fights his $150bn (£111bn) court claim over OpenAI.
Elon Musk fired back at OpenAI's lawyer in a tense cross-examination during the second day of the long-awaited trial that pits one tech billionaire against another.
Elon Musk told a federal court on Wednesday that he now considers himself "a fool" for bankrolling OpenAI's early years, as his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company and its leaders played out in a California courtroom. On the stand, Musk said he put roughly $38 million into what he...
In one Pennsylvania borough, AI's physical footprint would be hard to miss. The Washington Post's Tim Craig reports that developers want to blanket roughly 14% of Archbald, a town of 7,000 near the Poconos, with six data-center campuses holding 51 massive warehouses some bigger than a million square feet....
The conflict in Iran has "supercharged" the "boom" in renewable power, the United Nations' climate chief has said.
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Air and Space - 1 day 18 hours agoArtist Arlene Shechet's recently installed aluminum work now occupies the grounds of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...
GeekSpin - 1 day 18 hours agoMotorola is back with a new lineup of colorful and nostalgic Razr flip phones that double as fashion statements. With the launch of the new 2026 Razr family, the company is once again pushing a trio of flips – the Razr Ultra, Razr+, and the standard Razr. Just a few years ago flips felt like […] Read the original article here: Motorola brings back the iconic Razr in 4 new foldables...
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The Pentagon and Google have reached an agreement for the Defense Department to use the tech company's powerful Gemini AI systems on classified networks, according to a U.S. official familiar with the deal...
NPR - 2 days 3 hours agoThe European Union accused Meta on Wednesday of failing to stop underage users from accessing Facebook and Instagram, in violation of the bloc's digital rules that require sites to protect minors.
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