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AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
The largest western AI labs are taking a break from sniping at one another to partner on a new accelerator program for European startups building applications on top of their models. Paris-based incubator Station F will run the program,...
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The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn't that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. That's the version the industry has spent...
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Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 1966, a beach-ball-size robot bounced across the moon. Once it rolled to a stop, its four petal-like covers opened, exposing a camera that sent back the first picture taken on the...
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The Physics Behind the Quadruple Axel, the Most Difficult Jump in Figure Skating
In figure skating, the quadruple axel is generally considered the most difficult jump. Until 2022, when US skater Ilia Malinin—currently riding high as the “Quad God” at the 2026 Winter Olympics—started doing them, they seemed impossible. Landing one, naturally,...
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Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip | TechCrunch
The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market have no reliable way to verify that what they’re purchasing is genuine....
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How Will the Tech Industry Handle the DRAM Shortage?
If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the market for computer memory. Demand, and profitability, for the type of DRAM used...
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Social media companies accused of
The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles...
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Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake
Today, Meta went to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation on its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The state claims that Meta violated New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act by...
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IEEE Honors Tech Visionaries
Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose work has shaped modern technology across disciplines including AI, education, and semiconductors.The medals will...
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‘Hidden’ group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
A mysterious group of bacteria seems to thrive in the gut microbiomes of people without illness, hinting that they...
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What we know about the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy
Guthrie was born in Australia, but when she was a toddler her family moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she...