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* Universal's new movie SOULM8TE is coming to digital platforms on August 1 * The plot is very similar to recent horror hit Obsession * SOULM8TE is a spin-off to the 2022 movie M3GAN, focusing on more adult themes If you haven't seen Obsessionyet, you need to. It'
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Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time. Docile, helpful machines that do your laundry, take out the trash, maybe make dinner, and clean up afterward too. But if robots are going to do all that, they’re going to need some hands to make
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Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like construction site. Their new system, called “FloatForm,” is a swarm of small square robotic boats that assemble themselves into larger structures on the water, break apart, and
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India's startup funding story in the first half of 2026 is one of contrasts. Startups collectively raised $7.2 billion, 12% more than a year ago, according to Tracxn's India Tech H1 2026 report. Yet the number of funding rounds dropped 43%, first-time funded startups declined
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Bengaluru-based deeptech startup eNLife Research has raised Rs 6 crore in a seed funding round led by Piper Serica VC Fund to advance an AI-powered blood test designed to identify Alzheimer's disease long before clinical symptoms emerge. The funding will be used to strengthen the company's
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For forty years, the secret language that lets software talk to hardware was owned by a handful of companies. Then a free alternative escaped the lab—and turned chip design into a matter of statecraft. There is a sentence that security researchers, hardware startups, and the governments of at least
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Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the
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Before OpenAI’s GPT-3 ushered in the era of foundation models, companies built specialized natural language processing models from scratch, training each on large amounts of task-specific data. Today, most organizations start with a general purpose model like OpenAI’s GPT series, Claude, or Llama, and then fine-tune or prompt
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In Brief 9:29 AM PDT · July 8, 2026 Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim of investing in the “technical frontier,” the firm’s founder Matt Huang announced Wednesday. For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond
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Most systems we call “AI agents” are not really agents in the deeper sense. They are powerful workflows wrapped around LLMs. I recently came across the Critique of Agent Model paper that gave me a cleaner vocabulary for something many developers already feel when building agents. A lot of “agents”
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What if you had a drone that wasn’t a buzzy, annoying fly people wanted to swat — but rather a cute dog that runs and jumps? What if it could do tricks on command, and film your tricks as well? What if it could get right back up after a
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Roborock Saros 204 / 5Very good pros and cons * The Roborock Saros 20 features a strong 36,000 Pa of suction. * It can climb up to 3.46 inches in a couple of step-ups. * The robot is low enough to fit under furniture that others can't reach. * It has
