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* The Pinwheel Home is aimed at kids aged 5-10 years * It only makes phone calls to approved contacts * There's an optional subscription for calling real numbers The question of how much time young people should spend on their smartphones and social media has dominated the headlines in recent
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Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate 3D models of those designs, which they can put through virtual crash or durability
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Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets oil, gas, refining and petrochemical systems, where a single
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Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse. Syntetica promises to recycle two types of nylon — Nylon 6
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The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down The crippling high-consequence attack on vital infrastructure that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years is upon us, in the form of an incident that may force KFC to close some stores in
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AI software creation platform Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $1.5 billion and taking it into the unicorn club nearly a year after its public launch. The round was led by Creaegis, with Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global joining as
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Get ready, Android users: Google will begin letting people download third-party apps from the Google Play Store next week, Bloomberg reports. This news comes after the five-year antitrust lawsuit filed by Epic Games, the creator of the popular video game Fortnite, concluded on Tuesday. Owners of Android phones in the
