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TL;DR SoftBank will invest up to €75B ($87B) for 5 GW of AI data centres in France. The first phase delivers 3.1 GW by 2031 for €45B. SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in
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One of the most practical benefits of a smart home is how easy it is to manage when you're away, especially on vacation. With any kind of internet connection you can monitor conditions from afar, make changes and customize alerts so you only get important security updates (or
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The Little Life Got a small home? Perhaps an apartment, or a tiny house? Our Little Life series will help you find the best compact tech that'll help you make the most of your space. If you rent, you need to be careful not to make any permanent
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Learning to play the piano takes years of practice. There is so much struggle and frustration along the way that most people give up before they ever reach their goal. Robots, on the other hand, find it quite easy to learn to play the piano — they do now, anyway, thanks
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TL;DR Foundation sent humanoid robots to Ukraine and has $24M in Pentagon contracts. Eric Trump is its chief strategy adviser. Warren calls it “corruption.” Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company
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This week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival taking place in the city — I sat down with Niko Bonatsos of Verdict Capital, Andreas Stavropoulos of Threshold Ventures, and Ben Blume of Atomico to ask about the current state of venture investing, the wave of
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Plus, a whole bunch of games that'll give your brain a workout. Paralives Studio Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. We're here to tell you about a bunch of new games you can dive into this
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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 Friday's
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The only Father's Day gift I can recall my own dad getting was a plate of fried sardines. It was prepared by my mother, his ex-wife, who knew how gratefully he'd receive a dish he grew up with in the Italian neighborhood of a steel town
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May 29, 2026 1:39 PM Send the pool guy packing. Let one of these robot buddies maintain your water quality instead. Courtesy of AquaSense All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through
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This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers’ homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there’s a catch. There’s always a catch. In exchange
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Although the Shift app website claims “there is no catch” for the free cleaning, the FAQ notes that booking an appointment requires payment information and warns that clients may be charged if they cancel appointments with less than 24 hours’ notice or are not available to let cleaners in at
