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It turns out that even San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his limits. Especially when that emerging tech creates a massive hours-long traffic jam that leaves thousands at a standstill. Mayor Lurie has asked state regulators to
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* Ukraine's Brave1 opened the first state grant program treating combat humanoid robots as their own procurement category * The move, which aims to capitalize on gains by Ukraine's already-innovative robotics industry, is also cognizant of the current limitations of the tech * The goals set by Brave1 are
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TL;DR Roblox launched Build, a mobile-first AI creation tab that generates games from text prompts, starting alpha in New Zealand on July 28. Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game
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OpenAI's plans to build and sell an AI device undeniably hit a bump in the road this month when Apple filed a lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker, alleging that former Apple employees stole trade secrets when they left Apple to join OpenAI. But if OpenAI isn't
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a bug in Apple's iCloud Hide My Email tool that appeared to reveal users' real email addresses to anyone who wanted to find them. On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in California, Alvarez v. Apple Inc., accusing Apple of
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday'
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday'
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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4:01 PM PDT · July 16, 2026 SpaceX abruptly aborted the second attempted launch of its upgraded Starship rocket system on Thursday, just moments after the booster ignited at the company’s complex in South Texas. The company was trying to return to flight just a few weeks after the
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ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 16, 2026 06:39 PM ET A Pentagon official told Nextgov/FCW that the agency is “rolling out additional apprenticeship positions over the next few weeks.” * Defense * Cyber Defense * Workforce The Pentagon prematurely closed the job listing for its new Cyber Registered Apprenticeship
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* Excel continues to grow as a popular esport * The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle took place on the weekend of July 11th, 2026 * Four competitors went to cell-to-cell, but there was only one winner The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle has declared
