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The FCC’s ban on Chinese-made robots extends well beyond humanoids to quadrupeds, research platforms, and many robot vacuums from allied countries. Supporters call it a major boost for domestic robotics, but critics warn that cutting researchers and startups off from affordable foreign hardware could slow U.S. innovation instead. Ars Technica’s Jeremy Hsu examines who stands to gain and who...
Valve is funding Collabora’s experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports: Louis-Francis Ratte-Boulianne put out a blog post highlighting their initial work on porting...
Google has dismantled the original AlphaFold team, according to Financial Times (paywalled), reassigning many researchers to Gemini and Isomorphic Labs. Several other key members, including Nobel laureate John Jumper, left for Anthropic. Engadget reports: AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes...
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta intends to sell for the first time AI tools to other companies
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has been evaluating how frontier AI models behave as long-running autonomous agents by assigning them simulated real-world tasks, such as operating a vending machine business for a year without human supervision. In the latest installment, the research startup found that frontier AI models, including Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3,...
Despite weeks of renewed press coverage and controversy around ICE, Donald Trump’s supporters appear to be standing by the agency no matter what.
Save up to $100 on Apple’s latest AirPods models before prices go back up.
The Silicon Valley company’s costs rose more steeply than revenue growth, as it continues to invest heavily in artificial intelligence.
Like other big technology companies, Microsoft is hoping its aggressive spending on artificial intelligence is starting to translate into revenue.
Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag
A US Senate committee hearing featuring Dr Anthony Fauci revealed at least one certainty: six years after the pandemic, politicizing science remains a vital political tactic.
The high-profile hearing was pitched by its Republican chair, Rand Paul of Kentucky, as an investigation...
NextEra and Brookfield plan to invest more than $100 billion to transform a former uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant. “The privately funded effort will include construction of 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power at or near the site in Paducah in western Kentucky, and as much as 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage capacity,” reports Bloomberg....
Irvine, CA (PinionNewswire) — Affiliate Summit East was another tremendous success that brought together over 4,500 advertisers, publishers, e-commerce sellers, and tech suppliers to network and establish business partnerships. Critical to these endeavors is compliance with applicable federal and state laws– particularly the TCPA. Troutman Amin, LLP partner Brittany Andres–a National Law...
Curious if you should get Dyson’s new 2026 stick vacuums or stick to the older ones? I tested five models, old and new, to find out for you.
LOS ANGELES, CA — S99 PR, a Los Angeles-based public relations and authority-building agency, today announced a significant expansion of its team and service capabilities as demand grows across its core practice areas: guaranteed media placements, earned media, O-1 and EB-1A visa press, Google Knowledge Panel development, AI discoverability programs, and full-service credibility campaigns for […]
DoorDash has launched DoorDash Air, an in-house drone-delivery program that has just received FAA certification for commercial operations. “This does not mean DoorDash’s custom-built drones will be delivering burritos tomorrow, or even next month,” notes TechCrunch. “The company didn’t provide a detailed timeline for when its aircraft would be used in operations.” From the report: [I]t will...
New York City, NY — Mindcolor Autism, a leading provider of ABA therapy and autism diagnostic evaluation services for the pediatric population, announced today that it has earned accreditation from the Autism Commission on Quality (ACQ), the nonprofit accreditation body dedicated to advancing the quality of applied behavior analysis (ABA) services for individuals with autism […]
Irvine, California (PinionNewswire) — The law governing outbound SMS and AI messaging is changing quickly as courts have developed new case law limiting the impact of the TCPA to certain outbound messaging channels. As the federal rules shift, however, states have stepped up with numerous new regulations and potential legislative changes that very few lawyers […]
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
German study surveyed adults who engage in gaming, pornography and online shopping
Spending excessive time online is associated with higher stress levels, worse mood, and greater neglect of other activities, according to analysis.
The new study by academics at the University of Duisburg-Essen published in the journal PLOS One, surveyed 900 German adults in 2025 who reported engaging in gaming,...
This week, the Chainlink price holds firm near $8.71 after recovering from support at $7.18, with 15.7 million LINK pulled off exchanges. Cardano slipped below its trendline as Open Interest fell 7% and volume dropped 41%, keeping the Cardano price prediction cautious. BlockDAG tells a different story as another major milestone arrives. In just 48 […]
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.