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Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time
Reindustrializing America will require action from not only businesses but also a new wave of people that...
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Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors from new tariffs | TechCrunch
The Trump administration is carving out big tariff exemptions for the tech industry.While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would delay many of the market-shaking tariffs that he’d announced the previous week, he kept a universal baseline 10%...
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The xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empire | TechCrunch
When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok,...
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Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now – Slashdot
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Facebook Marketplace has emerged as the dominant feature within the social media platform, amassing 1.2 billion monthly active buyers by 2023 and overtaking eBay as a peer-to-peer selling platform. According to recent data, approximately 16 percent of Facebook's...
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The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next | TechCrunch
Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, where it announced dozens of new features, like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash.It also announced a...
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Trump budget cuts would eliminate much of NOAA’s climate research
The Trump administration aims to cut funding for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by more than...
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Bronze naval ram from Roman battle recreated using ancient techniques
Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a...
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How Does MIT’s Tiny Robot Bug Defy Gravity?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source AI framework called llama.cpp. This software allows people to relatively easily deploy open source AI models on their own...
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AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows – Slashdot
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Some of the best AI models today still struggle to resolve software bugs that wouldn't trip up experienced devs. TechCrunch: A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft's R&D division, reveals that models, including Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet and...
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Pressure mounts to probe Kenya police and army after BBC exposé
Leading human rights organisations have renewed calls for investigations into the killing of protesters by Kenya's security forces during...