The humanoid robot boom is here. These top Silicon Valley investors aren't buying it.
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Humanoid robots have become the mascot of Silicon Valley's physical AI boom.
They dance in viral videos, bang out tunes on the piano, and are headed to Wall Street as Agility Robotics plans to go public. They promise a new workforce that never sleeps, never ages, and can work in spaces built for people.
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
Forterra, a U.S. builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any U.S. defense tech company.
Tesla is selling summer gear, including a $595 Model Y trunk fridge
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Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction - Engadget
The potential sanction has 'no analog in history,' Meta said.
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Meta is facing penalties of up to a massive $1.4 trillion from four US states that sued the company over the addictive designs of Facebook and Instagram, Reuters reported. Those states — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey — also accused the company of misleading the public about the safety of those apps. The figure, not previously disclosed, is close to Meta's $1.5 trillion market capitalization.
Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air
In today's announcement of a staggering 3,200 layoffs at Xbox, the fate of one fan (and PC Gamer) favorite studio was left up in the air. Arkane Lyon, the remaining half of the modern immersive sim maestros, appears to be entering negotiations for an indie exit similar to other former Xbox studios.
Coach told FA Maddy Cusack was a liar, inquest hears
The coach of former Sheffield United footballer Maddy Cusack told the Football Association (FA) she was "generally a liar", an inquest into her death has heard.
Cusack, 27, was found unconscious by her father David at their family home in Horsley, Derbyshire, on 20 September 2023 and was pronounced dead the same day.
How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find out | New Scientist
It shouldn’t have been difficult: 72 x 72. From the back seat, my daughter, newly confident in mental maths, wanted to check her answer. Whether it was because it was the end of the day, I was trying to park or something else, I stalled, cognitively speaking.
Do not buy an RTX 5060, not while the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is inexplicably cheaper
It's getting hard to take the tech world seriously these days, not least the PC gaming hardware market. Prices have become so utterly ludicrous across the board—from the soaring cost of RAM and SSDs, to the spiking GPU and system prices—that it's hard to get your head around when something actually becomes more affordable.
Fiji v England: Tom Roebuck drafted into squad for George Furbank
Sale wing Tom Roebuck has been drafted into the England squad as head coach Steve Borthwick juggles back-three options amid a raft of injuries.
Roebuck replaces Northampton full-back George Furbank, who withdrew from the starting line-up for Saturday's 45-21 defeat by South Africa with appendicitis.
Astronomers characterize 'improbable' system shaped by brown dwarf
In the course of studying planets beyond our solar system (6,316 confirmed exoplanets and counting), scientists have discovered some very interesting systems. Consider TOI-201, a compact system populated by three bodies, including a brown dwarf, orbiting on the same plane. The system was recently observed by an international team led by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).