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If you're British, you're automatically a Maxine Peake superfan — regardless of your age or generation. From Silk to the hugely overlooked The Bisexual on Channel 4, she's starred in banger after banger. Now, she stars as delusional wife Jenna in gripping Australian Apple TV
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The LG Gram Pro 16 is incredibly light, coming in at under three pounds. Yet, it has enough power to play demanding computer games (on scaled-down settings). The battery life is just as impressive. Too bad, the price tag is so high. Reasons to buy * +Under three pounds thanks to
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Save $40: A robot can take a major chore off your list, and early Prime Day is bringing some tempting deals to make the switch easier. The Yeedi S14 robot is currently down to $360, marking the lowest price it has ever been. But this price won’t stick around
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A humanoid robot may look like a machine built around motors, cameras, and processors. But making it useful in the real world is a far more complicated proposition. The challenge is not simply teaching a robot to see or move—it is enabling dozens of systems to sense, reason, respond,
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* Japan plans to hire millions of AI robots as its working population shrinks * One domestic startup plans to build 100 workplace robots by 2027 * Japanese insurers are preparing for accidents involving increasingly capable workplace robots The Japanese government has set a goal of placing 10 million robots driven by artificial
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Amazon Australia's second Prime Day sale is here and, as always, there are plenty of vacuum cleaner deals to help sort out your spring cleaning, then continue on for a while yet. Vacuums of all kinds have been bestsellers on Amazon for a long time but, in recent
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Companies are selling AI to lawyers faster than courts can fine them for using it. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images So far this year, three of the four major AI labs have either launched or pitched products aimed at lawyers. Google put Gemini Enterprise for Legal into preview in late August
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* Russian underwater robots could reach offshore accidents within hours, not days * USC says robotic systems could handle most routine underwater inspections * The robots inspect hulls, propellers, and rudders while ships remain stationary Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has introduced a new line of underwater robotic systems built for
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Tesla has secured $30 billion in fresh credit lines that it could use to help scale the new products it is currently working on: the Cybercab robotaxi, Optimus robot, and Tesla Semi. The company announced Tuesday that Citibank has agreed to a $20 billion three-year delayed-draw term loan facility. Wells
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TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close. Our Side Events program brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together across San Francisco for everything from intimate roundtables
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On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” More than a dozen organizations came
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Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and
