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Ursula von der Leyen, the current President of the European Commission, delivered the State of the European Union 2026 speech on September 16, 2026, at 9:00 am CEST. It was naturally heavy on European political theory (center left freedom protected by strength), the economy (need for energy independence, reducing
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When I arrived at The Hoxton, a hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, there were two placards on the reception desk advertising what I was there for: an Aescape robot massage. As no stranger to back pain, I’ve had my fair share of massages, but never from a robot. Aescape,
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I’m behind the wheel of a 2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV, one of the most affordable new electric SUVs you can buy today, about to make the first and only pit stop on my 230-mile journey from San Francisco to Reno, Nevada. It hits me that I’ve put next
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Distributed camera networks and autonomous robotics running on Ambarella edge AI silicon can now tap ZEDEDA cloud orchestration, easing remote model updates across factory floors and transport fleets. Announced through a partnership between the two suppliers, the integration installs ZEDEDA’s open-source EVE-OS on Ambarella’s N1 family of generative
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It’s September 2026, and the avalanche of quality games is already underway with Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Star Wars Zero Company and Marvel’s Wolverine. The big game releases will continue to happen weekly until Nov. 19, when Grand Theft Auto 6 releases, but this month, PS Plus
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MiCoB, a Gujarat-based construction-technology startup founded by Ankita Sinha, Shashank Shekhar, and Rishabh Mathur, has secured a ₹30 Cr investment commitment on Episode 7 of Vande Bharatam, aired on September 14. The commitment was jointly offered by Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO, Flipkart, and Ashutosh Valani, Co-Founder, RENÉE Cosmetics. Separately, Karan Adani,
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When Josh Wardle's Wordle went viral, it sparked an entire ecosystem of spinoffs and niche adaptations. While the instinct for modern web developers is to spin up create-react-app or a Next.js template for any interactive interface, a 5-letter word puzzle is one of the best use cases
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Too often, delivery robots just don't understand the rules of the road (or sidewalk). Chuyn/Getty Images People tend to have two distinct reactions upon seeing a robot delivery driver scurrying down the sidewalk. Some are charmed by their anthropomorphized faces and see a cute little guy doing
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As I ducked into the shaded walkway that led through the Shenzhen Cultural Center from the city’s waterfront park, I felt the cool of the passageway wash over me. The tunnel glowed from panels in asymmetric organic shapes spaced across the walls and ceiling – from a distance, they looked
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AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to building impressive prototypes. Getting those prototypes into production is a different story. Every founder hopes their breakthrough becomes a product customers can rely on. Yet the path from prototype to production rarely follows a straight line. Manufacturing challenges emerge. Infrastructure has to support
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Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International, bringing total funding to $43m for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. The same machine runs what the company calls soft security, using its navigation sensors to detect loitering and trespassing across retail, campus, healthcare and office sites, with staff
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Mind the gap Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That explains
