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Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:
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Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World
Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too.
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:Josh Berry: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The British comedian shares his list of mostly comedy classics. Then it gets existentialGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAh, the internet, that reservoir of uninformed angry takes, tribalism and all the pornography from human history. Like many people I wish I used the internet more, particularly social media. In fact, every night before I go to sleep I’ll often experience deep feelings of regret that I’ve...
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:The Download: testing new AI agent Manus, and Waabi’s virtual robotruck ambitions
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test. Since the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in…
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without emitting gobs of greenhouse gases. The company successfully ran its largest reactor yet to make…
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:Delays and uncertainty dog Intel’s dream of Rust belt manufacturing hub
The company is hanging on by a thread amid rumors it may be broken up and sold – an instability keenly felt in OhioWhen moving massive metal structures from the Ohio river to its Ohio One Campus semiconductor plant 140 miles to the north, Intel took every minute detail into account.Local school bus timetables were found and worked around. Teams of linemen in white crane trucks lined up to move traffic lights out of the...
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything
From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flaunt their national pride.
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon dioxide
For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the process by which plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their fuel. These artificial leaves use sunlight to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen, which could then be used to fuel cars or generate electricity. Now a research team has…
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy
Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh schoolAs with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window,...
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:MY MOTHER❤️️
Being given birth by the most amazing, supportive, beautiful, strong woman. I lay on my bed now with regret that I didn’t get to tell you…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Too Powerful to Feel Legal: The Uncanny Valley of Advanced AI Agents
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Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk
Standing in the driveway of the White House with Tesla vehicles, Trump said he would label violence against the company’s showrooms as domestic terrorismDonald Trump said he is buying a “brand new Tesla” and blamed “Radical Left Lunatics” for “illegally” boycotting Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. The announcement came a day after Tesla suffered its worst share price fall in nearly five years.Later, the president...
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.
Since the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in China, where it was developed by the Wuhan-based startup Butterfly Effect. It’s made its way into the global conversation, with influential voices in tech, including Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and Hugging Face product lead Victor…
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Waabi says its virtual robotrucks are realistic enough to prove the real ones are safe
The Canadian robotruck startup Waabi says its super-realistic virtual simulation is now accurate enough to prove the safety of its driverless big rigs without having to run them for miles on real roads. The company uses a digital twin of its real-world robotruck, loaded up with real sensor data, and measures how the twin’s performance…
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:The Download: making AI fairer, and why everyone’s talking about AGI
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Two new measures show where AI models fail on fairness What’s new: A new pair of AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and less likely…
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed
Can anyone, armed with just a dream and an AI chatbot, create a rudimentary version of a classic arcade game? I asked several enthusiasts who took a stab at it, with very mixed resultsThere’s a lot going on with video games and generative AI right now. Microsoft and Google have each created models that can dream up virtual worlds, with significant limitations. And people have been using Grok, the gen-AI chatbot from...
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster.
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips
The belief that technology will usher in a golden age for humanity is in vogue once more with billionaires. But can the left offer its own vision for the future?Techno-optimism – the belief that technology will usher in a golden age for humanity – is in vogue once more.In 2022, a clutch of pseudonymous San Francisco artificial intelligence (AI) scenesters published a Substack post entitled “Effective Accelerationism”,...
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:AGI is suddenly a dinner table topic
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,sign up here. The concept of artificial general intelligence—an ultra-powerful AI system we don’t have yet—can be thought of as a balloon, repeatedly inflated with hype during peaks of optimism (or fear) about its potential…
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:These new AI benchmarks could help make models less biased
New AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and less likely to cause harm. The research, from a team based at Stanford, was posted to the arXiv preprint server in early February. The researchers were inspired to look into the problem of bias after witnessing clumsy missteps in…
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:iPhone 16e review: Apple’s cheapest new phone
Stripped back iPhone offers latest chips, AI and longer battery life, but with only a single camera on the backApple’s cheapest new smartphone is the iPhone 16e, which offers the basic modern iPhone experience including the latest chips and AI features but for a little less than its other models.The iPhone 16e costs 599 (699/$599/A$999) and is the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE line. Where the iPhone SE still had...
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:How We Used AI to Successfully Localize 1 Million Words Within a Month and Cut Costs in Half
In today’s competitive landscape, rapid localization isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. But what if there were a way to not only…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: March 11, 2025 | Source:Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyber-attack’ caused X outages
Billionaire owner claims ‘attack’ may have originated in Ukraine after site unresponsive for many usersElon Musk claimed on Monday afternoon that X was targeted in a “massive cyber-attack” that resulted in the intermittent service outages that had brought down his social network throughout the day. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, had been unresponsive for many users as posts failed to load.“We get attacked...
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:Trump says US in talks with four groups over TikTok sale: ‘It’s up to me’
President suspended implementation of law ordering app to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or face US banDonald Trump said on Sunday the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring TikTok, with the Chinese-owned app facing an uncertain future in the country.A US law has ordered TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or be banned in the United States. Asked on Sunday if there...
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site
The 86-year-old author’s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature – with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected footSee more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internetAt the centre of most things is a skeleton. So it is for the online infamy of Joyce Carol Oates. In 2021, the award-winning novelist delivered her most...
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:The Download: supercharging the power grid, and a new Chinese AI agent
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid —Brian Deese is an innovation fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as director of the White House National Economic Council from 2021…
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid
US electricity consumption is rising faster than it has in decades, thanks in part to the boom in data center development, the resurgence in manufacturing, and the increasing popularity of electric vehicles. Accommodating that growth will require building wind turbines, solar farms, and other power plants faster than we ever have before—and expanding the network…
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:Are AI-generated video games really on the horizon?
Microsoft and Google have both recently released new generative AI models that simulate video game worlds – with notable limitations. What can they do?Another month, another revolutionary generative AI development that will apparently fundamentally alter how an entire industry operates. This time tech giant Microsoft has created a “gameplay ideation” tool, Muse, which it calls the world’s first Wham, or World and Human...
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles
Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the startFor years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler’s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. Eddie Murphy was always particularly prolific, his most multiplicitous performance as a clutch of Klumps for...
Published on: March 10, 2025 | Source:Readers reply: What is the biggest missed opportunity in history?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsI read that Skype is closing down, a few years after Covid brought video-calling to prominence like never before. So, my question is: what is the biggest missed opportunity in history? Quentin, ArizonaSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com....
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Skype shutdown surfaces sweet memories: ‘I proposed marriage’
Guardian readers share how the software connected them with loved ones when there were few affordable means to reach those for awayMicrosoft announced on the last day of February that it would sunset Skype. By the time the death knell tolled, the video chatting software that once revolutionized communications had become a ghost of its former self. Experts chimed in with half-hearted eulogies for the platform that...
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Who bought this smoked salmon? How ‘AI agents’ will change the internet (and shopping lists)
Autonomous digital assistants are being developed that can carry out tasks on behalf of the user – including ordering the groceries. But if you don’t keep an eye on them, dinner might not be quite what you expect …I’m watching artificial intelligence order my groceries. Armed with my shopping list, it types each item into the search bar of a supermarket website, then uses its cursor to click. Watching what appears to...
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instabilityDigital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade.A report released by the internet rights group Access Now and #KeepItOn, a coalition of hundreds of civil society organisations...
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse derailed one woman’s life
A new BBC podcast recounts the ordeal endured by Hannah Mossman Moore, whose phone was bombarded by fake accounts and her personal data weaponised against her“Hi Hannah Mossman MooreStalking you has its benefits. Now watching your friend strip another blonde with perky tits. She’s not more than 22. I have seen your tits so many times in the recording. You are late 20s now? Declining youth and saggy boobs… There is so...
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Earn Big APY by Staking Nexo (NEXO) on DappRadar
Staking Nexo (NEXO) has become a popular way for cryptocurrency enthusiasts to earn passive income, and with platforms like DappRadar…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: March 08, 2025 | Source: