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Apple Books is facing the same crisis that has plagued Amazon's Kindle Store for the past couple of years: fake books. Typically composed of low-quality, AI-generated summaries, these "books" copy the titles and visual assets of real books to confuse buyers and cash in on search
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TL;DR Ex-Tesla Optimus lead Jay Li settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11M to ship dexterous robot hands from his startup Proception. Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, has settled a year-long trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised an
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What comes to mind when you think about the types of robots that are involved in mining? For most people, it’s probably big autonomous trucks that are used for hauling, or robotic drilling and blasting systems that clear earth out of the way. However, these big, impressive machines are
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In Brief 8:02 AM PDT · June 29, 2026 Launch company Rocket Lab is buying satellite operator Iridium, putting it in a position to become a more full-fledged space services company, and continuing a wave of consolidation in the industry. The deal, which hasn’t yet closed, will see Rocket
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Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he
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If you’ve spent any amount of time working with robots, then you’ll know that the development process is very complex and extremely slow. All of those sensors, motors, and interfaces aren’t going to wire and configure themselves. It takes a lot of time and debugging to get
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South Korea has placed its biggest bet yet on the AI era. The plan commits at least $880bn over a decade to chips, data centres and robots. It is the boldest South Korea AI investment to date, and the government says speed is now the only way to survive. President
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Technology has come for many jobs, and one that it seems to be targeting is that of the tennis coach. The Acemate S10 builds on other models that can fire balls at you on the court – by being able to return those balls to mimic a rally. "Unlike monocular
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Sonic thump! NASA’s quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour. NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight on Friday, June 5, 2026. Credit: NASA | Lori Losey More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies,
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A settlement is the sound a lawsuit makes when it stops. For Tesla, one just went quiet. The far louder problem, a federal safety investigation, is still talking. Tesla has settled a lawsuit tied to a fatal 2023 crash involving its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, Bloomberg first reported. Neither side
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China’s AI sector is not short of cash. If anything, American pressure is pumping more in. DeepSeek shows the pattern best. The Hangzhou lab closed a $7.4bn round, the biggest first-time raise by a Chinese startup, at a valuation above $50bn. It had run for three years on
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One September night in 2025, the luminous face of Baby Jesus appeared in the sky over the Vatican—clearly, verifiably, witnessed by tens of thousands. It was some two millennia after the Book of Revelation prophesied, in John’s apocalyptic vision, that “he is coming with the clouds, and every
