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TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch...
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OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack
It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly so far. Merely days after OpenAI announced that its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic...
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How a Nazi Era Tape Recorder Gave Birth to the Laugh Track
A German engineer wanted a cheaper cigarette. The popular crooner Bing Crosby wanted a vacation. Satisfying both desires inadvertently led to the invention of the laugh track. Along the way there were Nazis, spoils of war, and more than...
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Using reason, again and again
You probably think you are rational. Day to day, you try to “make the best possible use of the information available to you,” as MIT philosopher Brian Hedden PhD ’12 writes in his 2015 book, “Reasons without Persons.” If you...
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Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken – Slashdot
"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would...
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Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout | TechCrunch
Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained. Intrigued, I spent an...
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Google just canceled its AI Studio mobile app, and it’s not all bad news
Google AI Studio was on track to make its way to Android and iPhone, giving developers and AI enthusiasts a dedicated place to build prompts and experiment with Google’s latest models from their phones.That’s no longer happening. In a...
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Google Earth’s AI misadventure lasted only a day. It was a tale of dangerous ignorance.
Technology behemoths are clearly not reading the room, or they are just moving faster than they should when it comes to AI deployment. Google has already stuffed its Gemini AI in every corner of its software stack, from Android...
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We Tested 70 Office Chairs to Pick the Best Ones
How to Sit Properly at a DeskAccordionItemContainerButtonThe right chair can only go so far. Your sitting habits and posture matter too. We've rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, and how to avoid...
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Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research – Slashdot
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The U.S. company Meteomatics has created an automated weather-monitoring system that uses drones to collect atmospheric data at multiple altitudes before returning to recharge and upload their findings. The so-called Meteobase, which consists of a base station on...
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Norway’s Haakon remembers ‘my dear father’ in first speech as king
He assumes his new role at a difficult time, as the royal family has faced health challenges and scandals...