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Spencer Pratt, once the villain of the 2000s MTV reality showThe Hills and now an insurgent candidate in this year’s Los Angeles mayoral race, had a breakthrough moment in his first debate performance last Wednesday. Turning to his signature issue of public safety, Pratt berated his opponents—Mayor Karen
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User interface tweaks are nice, but reliable drivers matter more Microsoft has laid out plans for how it and its partners will deal with iffy drivers causing stability problems in the company's flagship operating system. Dubbed the Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), Microsoft has outlined four pillars to support
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both crashes happened in Austin, Texas and occurred at low speeds. In each case, there was a safety
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The more likely route is the same as that used in quantum cascade lasers. In these systems, electrons tunnel from one location to another with almost the same energy. But in their new location, they quickly lose energy (via an acoustic wave generated by the crystalline material that holds the
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To that end, Honda says it will launch 15 models with a new generation of hybrid powertrains by 2030, with most of them destined for here in North America. Yes, that includes a full-size SUV to compete in the D-segment with vehicles like the Toyota Sequoia or Chevrolet Suburban. Honda
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In a formal statement of support for the bill sent to the California legislature, SKG wrote that “there is no other medium in which a product can be marketed and sold to a consumer and then ripped away without notice… As live service games rise in popularity for game developers
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Those steps (along with follow-up reactions to restore the acid or other chemicals to a usable state) obviously add up in terms of cost and energy use. Tallying up the energy to do all this using common techniques, the researchers found that you need to use a little more than
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Show more (5 items) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Memorial Day weekend is officially here. As you're enjoying the long weekend, I'd like to remind you that it's also an excellent time to shop for a new smartphone. Multiple
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May 15, 2026 1:09 PM OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience. Photograph: Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an
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New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run. For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly been framed as a model war: OpenAI’
